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The Last Holiday review by Hollzjw from Suffolk

Brilliant Film 6 February 2010
...ry pleasant surprise, it has some very good performances from Alec Guinness and Kay Walsh. The story is told in an imaginative way has an excellent twist at the end. A r... Read customer review

Kay Walsh - filmography

The Virgin And The Gypsy on DVD (1970)
Starring: Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman
Director: Christopher Miles
Certificate:
Yvette is struggling to cope in her stifling family when she meets an alluring gypsy, causing unknown desires to take hold. But she must decide if she wishes to live her life as her family expect, or to throw all she's known away.

60% from 82 members

The Witches on DVD (1966)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Joan Fontaine, Alec McCowen
Director: Cyril Frankel
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
This Hammer Production set in the English countryside pits Gwen Mayfield (Joan Fontaine), the newly appointed headmistress of Haddaby Academy against a coven of witches. Tormented by memories of experiences with African witch doctors, Gwen thinks that working at a quiet English countryside school ..read more »

57% from 223 members

Greyfriars Bobby on DVD (1960)
Starring: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Kay Walsh
Director: Don Chaffey
Certificate:
The true story of a Skye terrier who, after a vigil at his master's grave for fourteen years, became well-known throughout Scotland, and eventually received a gold licence from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

69% from 1,404 member

Tunes of Glory on DVD (1960)
Starring: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
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In Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness inhabits the role of Jock Sinclair - a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man, who expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil ..read more »

75% from 484 members

The Horse's Mouth on DVD (1958)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
In Ronald Neame's film of Joyce Cary's classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema's most indelible comic figures: the somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter in search of his artistic vision, Gulley Jimson. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines ..read more »

63% from 270 members

The Rainbow Jacket on DVD (1954)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Edward Underdown
Director: Basil Dearden, Michael Relph
Certificate:
An ex-jockey teaches a stablehand how to ride a racehorse and steps in to prevent the lad being black-mailed into losing an important race.....

72% from 61 members

Captain's Paradise on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St James has things well organised. He has a wife in Gibraltar, and a hot-blooded mistress in Tangiers. Things are perfect... so long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

69% from 360 members

Young Bess (1953)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton
Director: George Sidney, george sidney (2)
Certificate:
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch - the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her ..read more »

85% from 4 members
Currently unavailable

Hunted (1952)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh, Elizabeth Sellars
Director: Charles Crichton
Certificate:
A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.

73% from 141 members
Not currently released

The Man in the White Suit on DVD (1951)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Joan Greenwood
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way and try to suppress it.

70% from 3,422 members

The Last Holiday on DVD (1950)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh
Director: Henry Cass
Certificate:
Alec Guinness plays a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. He decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest.

72% from 343 members

The Magnet on DVD (1950)
Starring: Stephen Murray, William Fox, Kay Walsh
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

62% from 392 members

Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
An Ealing Studio classic, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is considered th emost perfect of the Golden-Age Ealing comedies. A deft and dark Edwardian comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. In order to inherit the entire D'Ascoyne fortune, the ..read more »

83% from 226 members

Kind Hearts and Coronets on DVD (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Set in the stately Edwardian era, Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims standing between a mass-..read more »

73% from 9,172 members

Cast a Dark Shadow (1948)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his first wife (Mona Washbourne), hoping to claim her inheritance. Surprise! The inheritance is a myth. Thus Bogarde sets his sights on barkeeper Margaret Lockwood, whom he knows to ..read more »

35% from 2 members
Currently unavailable

Oliver Twist on DVD (1948)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by ..read more »

70% from 3,607 members

This Happy Breed - Blu-ray (1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit.

20% from 1 member
Not available for rental

This Happy Breed (1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit.

70% from 499 members
Not available for rental

Keep Fit on DVD (1937)
Starring: George Formby, Kay Walsh, Guy Middleton
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Certificate:
Regal Stores is a hotbed of passion. A lonely barber, George, is secretly in love with pretty manicurist Joan. However, Joan only has eyes for the caddish Hector from the sports department. When a local newspaper decides to sponsor a Keep Fit competition, George tries to duck out - but Hector has ..read more »

60% from 44 members

Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh
Director: Henry Cass, Robert Hamer, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Collection of five films starring the iconic British actor. Includes LAST HOLIDAY, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT, CAPTAIN'S PARADISE and BARNACLE BILL.

76% from 925 members

Kay Walsh facts

5 most recent films

The Virgin And The Gypsy - 3.0 stars
The Witches - 3.0 stars
Greyfriars Bobby - 3.5 stars
Tunes of Glory - 4.0 stars
The Horse's Mouth - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection - 4.0 stars
Tunes of Glory - 4.0 stars
Hunted - 3.5 stars
Kind Hearts and Coronets - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

This Happy Breed - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
Cast a Dark Shadow - 2.0 stars
Keep Fit - 3.0 stars
Young Bess - 4.5 stars
The Witches - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alec Guinness - 14 times - show films
Dennis Price - 9 times - show films
Beatrice Campbell - 8 times - show films
Joan Greenwood - 7 times - show films
Valerie Hobson - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Henry Cass - 8 times - show films
Robert Hamer - 7 times - show films
Alexander Mackendrick - 7 times - show films
David Lean - 6 times - show films
Ronald Neame - 3 times - show films