

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.
Acting
Smith's vicious social climbing is *chef's kiss*.
Writing
Alan Bennett's Yorkshire venom, perfectly aged.
Director
Malcolm Mowbray
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Written by Alan Bennett, the film captures his trademark obsession with northern England's quiet humiliations and class resentment.
The real 1947 royal wedding happened during brutal post-war austerity; food rationing actually tightened that year, making the black-market pig premise painfully plausible.