Last Holiday

George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.

• 2025Locarno Film Festival · Retrospective - Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema 1945-1960selected

Set in Pinebourne, a fictional British seaside resort (fictional) · seaside resort

• Filmed at Welwyn Studios, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire — Studio production base.
• Castle Street, Luton, Bedfordshire — Clinic exteriors and clothes-shop sequence identified on Castle Street.
• High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire — Undertaker/hearse street scene identified at 109-111 High Street.
• Rosetor Hotel, Torquay, Devon — Hotel exteriors and grounds for the fictional Regal Hotel/Pinebourne; Reelstreets notes the hotel was demolished in 1979 and replaced by the Riviera International Conference Centre.
• Torbay Road, Torquay, Devon — Pinebourne arrival route; also Grand Hotel exterior/stock or second-unit shot identified on Torbay Road.
• Ilsham Marine Drive, Torquay, Devon — View toward Meadfoot Beach and Triangle Point used as George heads to Pinebourne.
• Nast Hyde Level Crossing, Hatfield, Hertfordshire — Level-crossing scene on George's return from the doctor; the route closed in 1968.
• Bell Bar, North Mymms, Hertfordshire — Bell Lane in Bell Bar doubles for the fictional village of Fallow End, where George swerves to avoid the dog.