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...

The local clergy and gentry, who've used the local railway for yonks, band together to prevent the local line from being closed, ending up at war with the local lorry drivers. Warm beer, the sound of leather on willow, but a lot less pollution, so let's give a rousing cheer for a few of our traditional values in this extremely funny Ealing Comedy, one of the last of the line there to. find out more...