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