Guinness infuses the role of George Bird, farm equipment salesman and social recluse, with a kind of wistful despair. Informed by his doctor that he has only weeks to live, George packs up his belongings and savings and takes off for a seaside resort. He is mistaken for a man of means and taken in by the "upper crust," and his last days promise to be his most hilarious. "Guinness steals the show as the half-turned worm, better able to cope with half-hearted acceptance in a strange society than with a final week of his own unquenchable loneliness... Kay Walsh, Sidney James and Wilfred Hyde-White contribute a great deal of supporting flavor to a comedy as evanescent in substance as it is whimsically delightful in execution" (Newsweek).