Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
Frank Forsyth
- Inspector Gale
- (as Frank Forsythe)
Alastair Hunter
- Bank Manager
- (as Alistair Hunter)
Christopher Banks
- Vicar
- (uncredited)
Ernest Blyth
- Guest at Eastbourne Hotel
- (uncredited)
Patrick Jordan
- Police Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
- Railway Inspector
- (uncredited)
Toby Lenon
- Hotel Porter
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaFirst feature film of Peggy Mount.
- GoofsThe large poster in the Travel Agent window reads Carribean instead of Caribbean.
- Quotes
Alec Johnson: My names Johnson - have you got a room to spare?
Mrs. Larkin: Just for yourself?
Alec Johnson: I said my name was Johnson, not Smith!
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Hour: Failure at Launch (2011)
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Last Holiday
Mild-mannered bank cashier Charles Victor learns he has an enlarged heart and might last another couple of years. Between his nagging wife and the proposed stress of a promotion, he daydreams about a cruise. So he turns down the promotion and stuffs the bank's money in a suitcase. The manager catches him, leaving Victor just enough time to scarper to Eastbourne -- with a minute or two of location shooting -- where he holes up in a quiet private hotel. Things get noisy when ex-con Cyril Chamberlain shows up, blackmails ex-girlfriend Zena Marshall, courts well-to-do spinster Peggy Mount and recognizes Victor from the newspapers.
'Solid' is a good word to describe this obviously cheap second feature. The copy I saw had three minutes trimmed from its length, but it doesn't seem to miss them. The effect is that of a decent TV production from a semi-anthology show of the 1960s, like THE FUGITIVE, where David Jansen might get caught up in some one else's story for a week. Few of the actors are attractive, save the juvenile couple of Michael Craig and Miss Marshall; none of the characters are terribly interesting either, save Chamberlain as Miss Marshall's ex-boyfriend, looking to shake every farthing out of anyone who has any, and Phyllis Morris, whose nagging and browbeating seem like most of the reason for husband Victor to get out.
In some ways, that's an odd message to send: the only way to be interesting is to be a nasty piece of work. Yet the dull people are the ones who are happy, in their mild-mannered way. That seems to be the normative subtext of this movie. It's certainly not that money will make you happy.
'Solid' is a good word to describe this obviously cheap second feature. The copy I saw had three minutes trimmed from its length, but it doesn't seem to miss them. The effect is that of a decent TV production from a semi-anthology show of the 1960s, like THE FUGITIVE, where David Jansen might get caught up in some one else's story for a week. Few of the actors are attractive, save the juvenile couple of Michael Craig and Miss Marshall; none of the characters are terribly interesting either, save Chamberlain as Miss Marshall's ex-boyfriend, looking to shake every farthing out of anyone who has any, and Phyllis Morris, whose nagging and browbeating seem like most of the reason for husband Victor to get out.
In some ways, that's an odd message to send: the only way to be interesting is to be a nasty piece of work. Yet the dull people are the ones who are happy, in their mild-mannered way. That seems to be the normative subtext of this movie. It's certainly not that money will make you happy.
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- boblipton
- Jul 14, 2019
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- Also known as
- Flucht nach Eastbourne
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- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
- Color
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- 1.37 : 1
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