Passport to Pimlico (1949)

Straker: Do you think we shall get more than two main dishes?
Gregg: Oh, I hope so. I haven't had a good feed since that last deadlock in Moscow.

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Edie Randall: Here's to the Burgundy Lido!

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Professor Hatton-Jones: Forgive me - are you a bleeder? When you cut yourself, do you bleed interminably?

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When the traders invade Pimlico, a comment is made about it becoming 'a spiv's paradise'. A spiv is/was a minor criminal who dealt in stolen or black market goods of questionable authenticity. Spivs were often well-dressed and were noted for offering goods at bargain prices, though the goods were generally not what they seemed or had been obtained illegally. The term was particularly common used for black-market dealers during the Second World War and in the post-war period.
The last Duke of Burgundy was Charles de Valois, otherwise known as Charles "The Rash" or "The Bold" or "The Terrible. The 44-year-old Duke was killed in the Swiss War in 1477, and France annexed Burgundy. Burgundy's holdings outside of France passed to Charles' daughter Marie, and her marriage to an Archduke of Austria (who later became Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor) saw the Burgundian inheritance pass to the Habsburg dynasty.
A placard can be seen, reading "Forget that Cripps feeling": this refers to Stafford Cripps, then-Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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