It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...
They are elegant, arrogant and assured; they dine, shoot pheasants, gossip and flirt, and they observe the rigorous etiquette expected of them. However it's 1913 and they are the last of the Edwardians, their society is collapsing and their lives about to be devasted by the coming slaughter.
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