I cannot see that any previous mention has been made of the fact that the character played by Alec Guiness is very similar to that played by Lionel Barreymore in "Grand Hotel".Barreymore played a character with a terminal illness who decides to spend his last days in a Grand Hotel and wins large sums at a casino in an ironic touch.In this film we are stuck with the silly twist ending.Whilst there is a very good cast generally speaking this film is very pedestrian.Since many of the reviews are from America they have missed the swipe at the unions taken by the film makers.The unions were starting to exert a stranglehold on British industry which would become a true nightmare in the 1950s until Thatchers legislation put a thankful stop to it."Sympathy"strikes were all the rage.The film unions were notorious for their militancy at the time.Hence the somewhat unlikely strike by the hotel workers.
Review of Last Holiday
