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Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Wonderful satire of post-war England
One of the first of the great Ealing comedies, and a clear indication that their comedies would carry social and political weight as well. In this picture a run-down section of London discovers a horde of burried treasure when a bomb left over from WW II explodes accidentally, and the residents of Pimlico, London, learn that they actually are a part of Burgandy, as deeded by the King in the 1400s. This means they are a separate country right in the heart of London, and they decide to act like a separate ... Read More
Rating: - Passport to laughter
This blissful flim is set im Miramont Place, Pimlico (a district of South London). When an unexploded bomb left over from WW2 goes off, local shopkeeper Stanley Holloway discovers an ancient trasure hoard, including a mysterious document. An eccentric university professor (Margaret Rutherford) translates the document, and it proves that Miramont Place was the site of a palace given to the exiled Duke of Burgundy by King Edward IV, making the inhabitants of Miramont Place natives of Burgundy rather than ... Read More
Rating:  - Great movie - shame about the "Audio described".
An all-time classic movie and, after all, how distracting can an audio description be? Well, taking a chirpy, rather piercing Canadian voice over the austere English environment certainly rammed home my mistake. I would like to review the rest of the movie but 10 seconds was all I could take which didn't even reach the end of the credits.
Perhaps when I can get hold of a non-dubbed version, I can offer a fuller review.
Rating: - Fun in post war London
Funny a brilliant. A wonderful portrait of Britain in the austerity years, a brilliant satire of British politics, and a laugh aloud funny plot about what would happen if a small part of London discovered it was really part of medieval Burgundy. With the immortal Dame Margeret Rutherford, at her jowl juddering best.
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