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Cuando George Bird, un vendedor de maquinaria agrícola, descubre un día que le queda poco tiempo de vida, decide disfrutar al máximo de sus últimos meses. Saca todos sus ahorros del banco y se va a un lujoso hotel, donde no pierde ocasión de hacer negocios, puesto que en su situación nada tiene que perder, de modo que está dispuesto a correr cualquier riesgo.

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

Ambientada en Pinebourne, a fictional British seaside resort (ficticio) · seaside resort

• Rodada en 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.