Bank Holiday (1938)
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Directors
Carol Reed
Cast
Felix Aylmer, Garry Marsh, Hugh Williams, John Davis Lodge, Kathleen Harrison, Margaret Lockwood
The story
On a 1930s bank holiday weekend, a number of people rush for trains to head to the seaside. They include: an unmarried couple, nurse Catherine Lawrence and her boyfriend Geoffrey. Catherine is distracted by thoughts of Stephen Howard, widower of a patient who died in childbirth; May and Arthur and their working-class family; two female friends, Doreen and Milly, looking for romance and Doreen to win a beauty contest.
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