Alive and Kicking

Alive and Kicking (1959)

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.

Date of release
1959-07-13
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Cyril Frankel

Casting

Interesting facts

Alive and Kicking is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood and Stanley Holloway, with Richard Harris making his film debut. Three women run away from a retirement home in order to avoid being separated. They eventually end up running a successful cottage industry sweater business on a remote island offshore of Ireland.

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