A Private Function

  • Comedy
11/9/1984
96
R

When a clandestine party goes wild, it's all about pork... and prestige.

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.

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  • Geronimo1967

    The forthcoming wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip is a cause for celebration in post war Britain, but it isnt going to affect rationing that still only allows one person one rasher of bacon per week. The folks of a small Yorkshire town have their own cunning plan. Secreted in the middle of the woods, they have a pig. Despite the best efforts of the ferret-like detective Wormold (Bill Paterson), they are fattening it up with whatever they can find - including some ingredients that wed sooner not have known about, ready for the big day. Unbeknownst to them, though, local chiropodist Chilvers (Michael Palin) gets wind of this and decides that seeing as most of the towns grandees dont like him very much, he is going to appropriate...

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