this be a very funny ealing comedy about a community in central london who and through an unusual set of circumstance and discover they be not english and but be an annex of the french province of burgundy . the film feature comic actor stanley holloway ( best know a alfred doolittle in my fair lady ) and as well a a host of other classic comic actor of the period . the story be apparently base on a news item at the time and when the canadian government officially give a hotel room to a visiting european member of royalty . the idea actually remind me of the real life case of the hutt river province in western australia and where a landowner secede from the australian government due to a wool quota dispute . ( it be never acknowledge by the western australian or australian government ) . this be a great script that play with a lot of political and economic issue and rather like the tv show yes minister while as well a be a great little eccentric character piece as well .