Last Holiday

Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He withdraws all his savings from the bank and heads to a posh hotel. Here he makes more contacts and opens more professional doors than he'd ever done before, thanks to his ...more

Like the earlier Nothing Sacred, Last Holiday deals with a person who has been misdiagnosed with a fatal disease and opts to go out with a bang. Unlike Sacred, however, the misdiagnosis does not get cleared up until late in the film; more importantly, while Holiday is definitely a comedy, there's a palpable undercurrent of melancholy, sadness and regret that gives it a unique and appealing flavor. Like much of screenwriter J.B. Priestley's work, the script is somewhat too schematic and the ...more