Told he has only months to live due to an illness, a man decides to spend his final days at a posh hotel. This enjoyable if lethargically paced comedy-drama is well acted by a large cast. Guinness, playing the sort of role he often played in the early 1950s, is perfectly cast as the poor chap who has lived an uneventful life but finds himself immensely popular just when his days are numbered. The fine British cast includes Bernard Lee, the actor who would go on to play "M" in the James Bond movies. The film builds slowly and grows on the viewer, but the ending is needlessly contrived, undermining the earlier developments.
Review of Last Holiday
