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‘It Laughs with and at the English’
Research and Reflections

‘It Laughs with and at the English’

Passport to Pimlico’s contemporary reviews stressed the film’s qualities as a specifically national form of comedy, while also relishing its antiauthoritarian and anti-statist elements.

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Oct 11, 2024
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A contemporary poster for 1949’s Passport to Pimlico (Ealing Studios).

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