Last Holiday (1950 film)

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Last Holiday (1950 film) is a British comedy-drama in which Alec Guinness plays a man mistakenly diagnosed as terminally ill who splurges on a final luxurious vacation, leading to ironic twists of fate.

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instanceOf film
basedOn original screenplay by J. B. Priestley
cinematographyBy Ray Elton NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director Henry Cass NERFINISHED
distributedBy General Film Distributors NERFINISHED
distributionRegion United Kingdom NERFINISHED
editedBy Gordon Pilkington NERFINISHED
filmingLocation United Kingdom
format black-and-white film
genre comedy-drama
hasRemake Last Holiday (2006 film) NERFINISHED
hasWikipediaPage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Holiday_(1950_film)
leadActor Alec Guinness NERFINISHED
mainCharacter George Bird NERFINISHED
mainCharacterPortrayedBy Alec Guinness NERFINISHED
musicBy Francis Chagrin NERFINISHED
narrativeTone ironic
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A man mistakenly diagnosed as terminally ill spends his savings on a final luxurious holiday.
producer George H. Brown NERFINISHED
productionCompany Watergate Films NERFINISHED
releaseYear 1950
runtime 88 minutes
screenplayBy J. B. Priestley NERFINISHED
screenwriter J. B. Priestley NERFINISHED
setting luxury hotel
starring Alec Guinness NERFINISHED
Beatrice Campbell NERFINISHED
Bernard Lee NERFINISHED
Kay Walsh NERFINISHED
Muriel George NERFINISHED
Wilfrid Hyde-White NERFINISHED
theme class differences
fate
mortality
timePeriodOfSetting mid-20th century

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