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Vacances sur ordonnance

Titre original : Last Holiday
  • 1950
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  • 1h 28min
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Vacances sur ordonnance (1950)
ComédieDrameRomanceComédie noire

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWhen a lonely, unappreciated farm-equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a "posh" resort.When a lonely, unappreciated farm-equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a "posh" resort.When a lonely, unappreciated farm-equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a "posh" resort.

  • Réalisation
    • Henry Cass
  • Scénario
    • J.B. Priestley
    • J. Lee Thompson
  • Casting principal
    • Alec Guinness
    • Beatrice Campbell
    • Kay Walsh
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    2,3 k
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    • Réalisation
      • Henry Cass
    • Scénario
      • J.B. Priestley
      • J. Lee Thompson
    • Casting principal
      • Alec Guinness
      • Beatrice Campbell
      • Kay Walsh
    • 41avis d'utilisateurs
    • 17avis des critiques
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    Alec Guinness
    Alec Guinness
    • George Bird
    Beatrice Campbell
    Beatrice Campbell
    • Sheila Rockingham
    Kay Walsh
    Kay Walsh
    • Mrs. Poole
    Grégoire Aslan
    Grégoire Aslan
    • Gambini
    • (as Coco Aslan)
    Jean Colin
    Jean Colin
    • Daisy Clarence
    Muriel George
    Muriel George
    • Lady Oswington
    Brian Worth
    Brian Worth
    • Derek Rockingham
    Esma Cannon
    Esma Cannon
    • Miss Fox
    Bernard Lee
    Bernard Lee
    • Inspector Wilton
    Sidney James
    Sidney James
    • Joe Clarence
    Campbell Cotts
    • Bellinghurst
    Moultrie Kelsall
    Moultrie Kelsall
    • Sir Robert Kyle
    Eveline Kirkwood-Hackett
    • Miss Hatfield
    • (as Mme. Kirkwood-Hackett)
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    • Chalfont
    Eric Maturin
    Eric Maturin
    • Wrexham
    Helen Cherry
    Helen Cherry
    • Miss Mellows
    Harry Hutchinson
    • Michael (The Waiter)
    Hal Osmond
    Hal Osmond
    • Trade Union Man
    • Réalisation
      • Henry Cass
    • Scénario
      • J.B. Priestley
      • J. Lee Thompson
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    10steve-2065

    One of my favourite films

    I love this film and it's one of the few I've watched time and time again. It's a forgotten jewel and is infrequently mentioned. For me it has everything that was important of it's era. The social comment is mingled into an entertaining story. How the Health Service is expanding but people go hungry. An over worked Doctor making mistakes. George Bird being projected into a world that is not his own. The irony of riches coming his way when he thinks he has little time left. The Union's getting their grip on the country with strike action. How the upper classes view the lower and vice versa. How George Bird is now viewed as upper class because of his new setting. Post war money laundering. How war heroes can't find work. Love and jealousy. And the ironies - how he buys a dead man's clothes. How he swerves a car to avoid a dog that is due to be destroyed and turns into a road called 'Fallow End.' Then there is the acting. Sid James gives one of his great performance. His 1940's and 1950's work was superb. Sadly remembered for his Carry On performances more than the superb actor that he was. He just holds the scenes and in some cases is competing well with Guinness. For Guinness this is an early film. Ernest Thiesiger makes a great appearance along with many others including the delightful Kay Walsh. Esma Cannon's acting is well done - better than her later performances where 'silly' scripts let her down.

    Please do see it if you can. It's a little gem.
    9Goingbegging

    Micro class-system

    A small-town salesman, George Bird, learns that he is suffering from an incurable condition, leaving him only weeks to live. With no family or friends to care for, he decides to spend his modest savings on his first and last stay in a grand hotel.

    The other guests soon notice that he is new to hotel life, and react to him in different ways - some disdainful, some intrigued and friendly. These guests reflect the old English class-system, with its myriad of sub-classes, starting to die out by 1950, largely because of the left-wing postwar government that had been so championed by J.B. Priestley, author of this screenplay.

    Before long, Bird's life seems to be opening out, with job-offers, investment opportunities, even a chance of love. A bitter irony of course, as these opportunities will never be enjoyed (or so we are to assume).

    The comfortable hotel life gets a jolt when the staff are suddenly called-out on strike, instantly shaking-up the class-system, as all the guests have now got to try to pitch-in and help, as best they can. This provides for a number of accidental meetings that move the plot forward dramatically. And the effect on Bird's humdrum life, suddenly turned roller-coaster, is dramatic indeed.

    Interesting to see the yet-undiscovered Sid James as a dodgy gambler, and David McCallum's father (also David) on the violin, beginning and ending the story with a simple but curiously haunting theme.

    For a film that has given so much pleasure - check the other IMDb reviews - it may seem spoilsport to suggest that Alec Guinness does not quite carry conviction as such a small and narrow character as Bird. This is someone who just earns his daily pittance and then goes home to read the paper and smoke his pipe. For this role, Guinness simply looks and sounds too cultivated, too sociable, altogether too biddable. (Ironically there was a character actor called Norman Bird, who would have been perfect!)
    8krocheav

    Thoughtful Tale of Irony

    What makes a film good? In this case it's the writing that first draws you in. Writer and co-producer J.B.Priestly (The Old Dark House '32 ~ An Inspector Calls '54) has a way with words that compels the viewer to want to know more about his characters. With wit and a sense of mystery, he surrounds us with multi layered groups of people that are mostly drawn together by chance. In 'Last Holiday' the cruel hand of fate brings us face to face with ultimate irony.

    It's filled with marvelous situations, at first upsetting, then wryly funny, leading to an unexpected ending that invites us to examine the way we not only relate to others, but how we treat them. Priestly is examining the bias that all too often accompanies class consciousness. The cast is exquisitely diverse, everyone from bit players to mains, deliver sterling performances under direction from Henry Cass (Glass Mountain '49). Welsh born Cinematographer: Ray Elton (Quartet '48) with his strong grounding in documentaries, brings a realistic look to the fine work of Scottish art director Duncan Sutherland (San Demetrio London '43 ~ The Human Monster '49).

    I found the music score by Romanian born composer Francis Chargrin surprisingly melodic for a 50s film of this type. Its thoughtful main theme is equally likable as his later 'The Beachomber' in '54. You might also remember Chargrin for his 'Colditz Story' '55, and 'Grey Friars Bobby' '61. Those who enjoy the always professional performances of Alec Guinness will enjoy his generally dour role in this off-beat mini classic.

    My viewing was hindered by Australian TV broadcaster Gem's, persistence in supering 'pop-up' adds for up-coming shows, and their ridiculous LARGE lolly 'Pink' station ID. At least this time they screened the full film after inadvertently leaving out a reel in an earlier screening! Sure wish this broadcaster would treat their viewers, and the films they run with far more respect!
    9bkoganbing

    Universal message

    Last Holiday contains the first really dramatic performance by Alec Guinness. It's also the first time he's carrying a film as per the billing on the strength of his abilities. It's one beautiful performance in a picture with a universal message.

    Alec Guinness plays your British every man who having no wife, no family, and no close relatives is likely to be remembered by very few when he passes on and then for a short time. He's given the news that the grim reaper is close, it might be a matter of a few weeks or a few months. What to do but go out and just enjoy things while you can.

    So he packs off and stays at the small but posh Regal Hotel, a seaside resort much prized by the British vacationers. And he has some phenomenal luck there, winning huge poker pots, longshot horse racing bets coming in. He even finds some love with hotel housekeeping manager Kay Walsh. But how to tell the new friends he's made what is in store for him?

    J.B. Priestley wrote the original script and in my opinion should have been a candidate for all kinds of awards. It is direct and simple and never maudlin. Guinness got the character down perfectly. And the ending is truly ironical.

    Which must have pleased and singed director Henry Cass a bit. Back in the 30s when Guinness was starting in the profession he tried out for a stage production directed by Cass who told him in no uncertain terms he was a no talent bum. This comes from a biography of Guinness. Kind of like Phil Rizzuto who was told he'd never be a ballplayer by Casey Stengel and then having him as his manager on the Yankees after becoming an All Star.

    One should watch Last Holiday together with Grand Hotel and note some of the similarities and the differences with Lionel Barrymore and Alec Guinness both portraying men under a death sentence.

    I think the message is the same, you never know when you're checking out so live accordingly.
    9nicholas.rhodes

    Quaint and original but WICKEDEST Ending in Cineama History

    Absent for years in Europe on both TV and Video, I finally managed to acquire this one on a VHS tape from the US. A man learns he has a short time to live and decides to make the most of it by living it up in a luxury hotel. His life suddenly becomes far more interesting, makes more money than ever before and luck generally smiles him in the face. I remember seeing it about Thirty years ago and wondered how a new viewing would affect me. There were one or two disappointments, I had a memory of the film being rather more romantic than it actually is ( nothing much actually happens on this side ) and parts of the film are rather 'chatty'. This said the overall story is quite original. The film captures that now long-lost atmosphere of a luxury 1950's English hotel in the bright sunshine presumably situated in Devon or Cornwall (as we see palm trees in the garden. There are many well-known actors and the script is quite original to say the least. Another of J.B. Priestley's stories 'An Inspector Calls' was also made on film and is actually very good, even better than 'Last Holiday'. Nevertheless, the haunting theme music (solo fiddle) and thedécors are A1. Picture and sound quality are very good for the time (1950) and I am surprised that the film is not readily available on VHS and DVD everywhere! Of course, Alec Guinness was a great actor and his performance here is totally up to standard. If the romantic side of it all had been pushed just a little further the film would have been perfect for me ! The ending of the film is the Wickedest and most unexpected in the history of cinema !

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    • Anecdotes
      The film includes cast members who cropped up in various Alec Guinness films. Amongst them are Sidney James, Ernest Thesiger and Kay Walsh.
    • Gaffes
      Bird states that he made about 9 Pounds a week. This is about 470 Pounds per annum. When his manager is trying to get him to stay he first offers to raise his salary to 400 Pounds p.a.
    • Citations

      George Bird: How do you keep smiling with a stiff upper lip?

    • Connexions
      Remade as Vacances sur ordonnance (2006)
    • Bandes originales
      The Beggar's Theme
      (uncredited)

      Composed by Francis Chagrin

      [played on violin by busker]

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    • How long is Last Holiday?Alimenté par Alexa

    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 27 octobre 1950 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Last Holiday
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Luton, Bedfordshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(Shopping parade and Doctor's office)
    • Société de production
      • Watergate Films
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    • Durée
      • 1h 28min(88 min)
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.33 : 1

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