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  • Rick's Flicks: Passport to Pimlico

    07/01/2023 3:39:07 PM PDT · by Twotone
    Steyn On-Line ^ | July 1, 2023 | Rick McGinnis
    ...We're in London during a summer heatwave and the residents of Pimlico are beset by the heat as well as the straitened circumstances of postwar life. We meet PC Spiller (Philip Stainton), the local plod, bank branch manager Wix (Raymond Untley) – the man in the linen suit – and the sunbathing young lady: Molly Reed (Jane Hylton), who works for Huggins, the fishmonger. Other local merchants include the ironmonger Pemberton (Stanley Holloway), his commonsensical wife Connie (Betty Warren), their pretty daughter Shirley (Barbara Murray), and dress shop owner Edie Randall (Hermione Baddeley). In addition to rationing and the heat,...