A Private Function

1984 PG-13 1h 36m

6.5 / 10 65

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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.

Director Malcolm Mowbray

Writers

Malcolm Mowbray Alan Bennett Alan Bennett

Stars

Michael Palin Maggie Smith Denholm Elliott

Comedy

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Geronimo1967 6 Dec 2025

7/10

The forthcoming wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip is a cause for celebration in post war Britain, but it isn’t 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” (B...