Will Hay (Dandy Dick The Goose Steps Out) plays a disbarred solicitor who with the help of Claude (Claude Hulbert) embarks on a frantic chase in pursuit of a psychopathic murderer newly released from prison. The prisoner is working through a vengeance list with Claude's name near the top... Directed by Basil Dearden and Will Hay My Learned Friend offers a fascinating insight into the direction Will Hay might have taken if ill health had not caused this Ealing picture to be his last. The tone is much darker than his previous films and the humour much of it revolving around a sequence of grisly murders foreshadows the blackest of Ealing's post-war comedies such as Kind Hearts and Coronets.
A suspenseful tale of murder and wrongful accusation The Last Chance features leading roles for Australian-born actors Frank Leighton and Judy Kelly with typically polished performances from stage and screen star Billy Milton and veteran character player Laurence Hanray. The film is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gun-running expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced; he returns at Christmas to find himself accused of the murder of Ivor Connel a moneylender. Mary's father had always hoped that his daughter would marry John Worrall a rising barrister. Worrall is briefed for the defence but when he loses the case and Alan is condemned to penal servitude for life no one but the judge realises that he has not made use of the best piece of defence evidence...
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