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Last Holiday

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George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1950-05-15

Runtime: 88 mins

Director: Henry Cass

Writer: J. B. Priestley

Spoken language: English

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Original title: Last Holiday

Production Companies: Watergate, Associated British Picture Corporation

Production Countries: United Kingdom

Cast

Alec Guinness

Beatrice Campbell

Kay Walsh

Grégoire Aslan

Jean Colin

Muriel George

Brian Worth

Esma Cannon

Bernard Lee

Sidney James

Campbell Cotts

Moultrie Kelsall

Madam Kirkwood-Hackett

Chalfont

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Reviews

narrator56

I found this movie to be entertaining at least for 3/4 of the way, before it started to go south on me. The writing is good and the dialogue realistic, and the people the hero meets as he continues his adventure are varied and intriguing. But there are two developments that ruined the movie for me, both near the end. Trying not to give much away, I will just say that the first problem involved a huge coincidence involving a new guest at the hotel. I mean, what are the odds, you might ask yourself as you watch it. It could have survived that unlikely coincidence if left on its own, but then there came a point when suddenly I knew how it was going to end and I thought, “Surely not!” But yes, the reversal at the end that I suppose was to provide karma and balance instead seemed to me to be amateurish and, as noted a moment ago, horrifyingly predictable. Oh well.

2023-05-03

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