Editing Passport to Pimlico (section)

{{Short description|1949 film directed by Henry Cornelius}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2012}}
{{Infobox film
 | name = Passport to Pimlico
 | image = Passport to Pimlico film.jpg
 | caption = Original UK cinema poster
 | director = [[Henry Cornelius]]
 | producer = [[Michael Balcon]]
 | writer = [[T. E. B. Clarke]]
 | starring = {{plainlist|
* [[Stanley Holloway]]
* [[Hermione Baddeley]]
* [[Margaret Rutherford]]
* [[Paul Dupuis]]
* [[Raymond Huntley]]
* [[John Slater (actor)|John Slater]]
* [[Jane Hylton]]
* [[Betty Warren]]
* [[Barbara Murray]]
* [[Basil Radford]]
* [[Naunton Wayne]]
}}
 | cinematography = [[Lionel Banes]]
 | music = [[Georges Auric]]
 | editing = [[Michael Truman]]
 | distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] (UK)
 | studio = [[Ealing Studios]]
 | budget =£276,787<ref name="money">Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 355. Gross is distributor's gross receipts.</ref>
 |gross= £104,444<ref name="money"/>
 | released = {{film date|1949|4|28|UK|df=y}}
 | runtime = 84 minutes<ref>{{cite web|title=Passport to Pimlico|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/passport-pimlico-1970-2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005214529/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/passport-pimlico-1970-2|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 October 2016|publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|access-date=5 October 2016}}</ref>
 | language = English
 | country = United Kingdom
}}
'''''Passport to Pimlico''''' is a 1949 British [[comedy film]] made by [[Ealing Studios]] and starring [[Stanley Holloway]], [[Margaret Rutherford]] and [[Hermione Baddeley]]. It was directed by [[Henry Cornelius]] and written by [[T. E. B. Clarke]]. The story concerns the unearthing of treasure and documents that lead to a small part of [[Pimlico]] to be declared a legal part of the [[Duchy of Burgundy|House of Burgundy]], and therefore exempt from the [[Rationing in the United Kingdom|post-war rationing]] or other bureaucratic restrictions in Britain.

''Passport to Pimlico'' explores the spirit and unity of wartime London after the war and offers an examination of the English character. Like other [[Ealing comedies]], the film pits a small group of British people against a series of changes to the ''status quo'' from an external agent. The story was an original concept by the screenwriter T. E. B. Clarke. He was inspired by an incident during the Second World War, when the maternity ward of [[Ottawa Civic Hospital]] was [[Extraterritoriality of Princess Margriet's birth|temporarily declared extraterritorial]] by the Canadian government so that when [[Juliana of the Netherlands|Princess Juliana of the Netherlands]] gave birth, the baby was born on Dutch territory and would not lose her right to the throne.

''Passport to Pimlico'' was well-received on its release. The film was released in the same year as ''[[Whisky Galore! (1949 film)|Whisky Galore!]]'' and ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]''. ''Passport to Pimlico'' was nominated for the [[British Academy Film Award]] for [[BAFTA Award for Best British Film|Best British Film]] and the [[Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Writing (Story and Screenplay)]]. There have since been two [[BBC Radio]] adaptations: the first in 1952, the second in 1996.