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The Time of His Life Reviews

  • 1955
  • 1 hr 14 mins
  • Family, Comedy
  • NR
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Mr. Pastry (Richard Hearne) returns home from prison---to be kept a prisoner by his social-climbing family. Lady Florence: Ellen Pollock. Edgar: Richard Wattis. Simon: John Downing. Sir John: Frederick Leister. Amusing. Leslie Hiscott directed.

A socially upstanding young woman, Pollock, is embarrassed by her jailbird father, Hearne. She tries to have him shipped off to Australia to avoid a scandal. When that fails she locks him in her attic, but that, too, proves unsuccessful. The situation is resolved when Hearne gets a job as the governor's handyman in this simple comedy with likable characters.