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Last Holiday is a British film of genre Drama directed by Henry Cass released in USA on 13 november 1950 with Alec Guinness
Last Holiday (1950)
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Add to a movie listLast Holiday is a 1950 British film featuring Alec Guinness in his sixth starring role. The low-key, dark comedy was written and co-produced by J. B. Priestley and directed by Henry Cass, featuring irony and wit often associated with Priestley.
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George Bird (Guinness), an ordinary, unassuming salesman of agricultural implements, visits a physician for a routine check-up and is told he has Lampington's Disease, a newly identified condition which allows him only a few weeks to live. He accepts the doctor’s advice to take his savings and enjoy himself in the little time left to him. A bachelor with no family or friends, Bird decides to spend his last days at an up-market residential hotel among its elite clientele.Actors
Alec Guinness
(George Bird)
Beatrice Campbell
(Sheila Rockingham)
Bernard Lee
(Inspector Wilton)
Brian Worth
(Derek Rockingham)
Wilfrid Hyde-White
(Chalfont)
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