During the worst heat wave in years, the sleepy district of Pimlico dozes...at least until London's last unexploded WWII-era bomb goes off with a deafening roar, flinging its citizens headlong into a fantastic adventure. Directed by Henry Cornelius (The Galloping Major) and written by the talented T.E.B Clarke, (responsible for another comedy classic, 1951's The Lavender Hill Mob), the whimsically charming PASSPORT TO PIMLICO has been hailed by Time Out as "perhaps the most Ealingish of the Ealing comedies." Nominated for both an Academy Award® for Best Writing, Story & Screenplay and a BAFTA Award, Film Movement Classics brings this Official Selection at Cannes to North America for the very first time on Blu-ray, digitally restored for optimal viewing and loaded with extras.
Investigating the crater caused by the explosion, Arthur Pemberton and his daughter Shirley unearth a buried cellar containing both fabulous riches and an unknown 15th Century royal charter from King Edward IV...
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