The End of the Road

The trials of a crusty old duffer who doesn't want to retire seems far from the reality of life 65 years later when both men and women have to work not as empowerment but simply in order to make ends meet, and people are being forced to work longer and longer hours and long to be able to afford a comfortable retirement in the foreseeable future.

What this typically earnest Group Three production is really about, of course, is the loneliness and boredom of old age, which is a problem that isn't going to go away in the near future. (Finlay Currie at 76 looks as strong as a horse in this film and continued almost right up to his death at the age of 90; few others are that lucky.)