A Private Function
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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Cast
Michael Palin
Gilbert Chilvers
Bill Paterson
Wormold
Alison Steadman
Mrs. Allardyce
Charles McKeown
Medcalf
Maggie Smith
Joyce Chilvers
Liz Smith
Mother
Reece Dinsdale
P.C. Penny
Denys Hawthorne
Hotel Manager
Don Estelle
Barraclough
Rachel Davies
Mrs. Forbes
Jill Goldston
Woman in Cinema (uncredited)
Bernard Wrigley
Painter
Pete Postlethwaite
Nuttol
Gilly Coman
Dorothy
Denholm Elliott
Dr. Swaby
Tony Haygarth
Sutcliff
Jim Carter
Inspector Noble
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Woman
John Normington
Lockwood
Susan Porrett
Mrs. Medcalf
Richard Griffiths
Allardyce
Eileen O'Brien
Mrs. Sutcliff