Shrimpton-on-Sea is a typical English village with a well meaning but pompous Lord (Morton Selten) and the populace veering between fawning obedience and simmering revolutionary resentment. A passing dead star pulls the village off into space and it becomes Shrimpton-in-Space!
The postmaster and keen scientist Drake (Eliot Makeham) knows what is going on but the Lord and his committee of yes-men laugh at him... until he takes a boat to "circumnavigate" the globe in a few hours! They indeed are now on their own and cut off from the rest of the world. With every resource in limited supply the Lord orders a system of rationing but some voices start to call for the Lord's estate, and it's riches, be plundered for the good of all. Conflict sparks between the two captions...
A science-fiction tale but mostly this is an often funny satire on Interwar Britain with it's slightly shakey but still intact class system and the dark shadow of socialism threatening to cut the Lord off from his sherry. Drake's daughter Stella (Rene Ray) and the Lord's son Bryan-Grant (Derrick de Marney) provide the love interest, and of course another aspect of the class-divide which is explored in this film. Mary Hinton is perfect as the snooty Lady of the manor.
