A fabulous 60s Musical - 4 London Bus mechanics strike up a deal with London Transport. They do up a double decker London Bus, drive it around Europe as a hotel and if they make it they ...
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| Cliff Richard | ... | Don | |
| Lauri Peters | ... | Barbara | |
| Melvyn Hayes | ... | Cyril | |
| Una Stubbs | ... | Sandy | |
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Teddy Green | ... | Steve |
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Pamela Hart | ... | Angie |
| Jeremy Bulloch | ... | Edwin | |
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Jacqueline Daryl | ... | Mimsie |
| Madge Ryan | ... | Stella | |
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Lionel Murton | ... | Jerry |
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Christine Lawson | ... | Annie |
| Ron Moody | ... | Orlando | |
| David Kossoff | ... | Magistrate | |
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Wendy Barrie | ... | Shepherdess / Dancer (as Wendy Barry) |
| Nicholas Phipps | ... | Wrightmore | |
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A fabulous 60s Musical - 4 London Bus mechanics strike up a deal with London Transport. They do up a double decker London Bus, drive it around Europe as a hotel and if they make it they will own and be in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up 3 ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway. A young, American boy. Meanwhile, a young American female singer has gone missing. Her mother (who is a VERY ambitious woman) and her aid take the story to the press and it makes the front page. They do all they can to make the story run for as long as possible, including misdirecting the bus up an extremely steep Yugoslavian hill. We find out the young American boy is actually the young American girl who is missing. Mayhem ensues as the lead character, Don (Cliff Richard) falls for Barbara. Eventually, when the 8 bus riders reach Athens, they're arrested for kidnapping. In front of her mother and a ... Written by Joliet and Flavia17
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18 February 1963 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Vacaciones de verano See more »Filming Locations:
The Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire, England, UK See more »Company Credits
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Don, Cyril, Steve, Edwin: [slower] In fact make no mistake, you've really had it chum!
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By Bruce Welch Hank B. Marvin (as Hank Marvin)
Played by The Shadows (uncredited)
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Closing credits: All characters and events in this film are fictitious and any similarity to persons either living or dead is purely coincidental. See more »Goofs
When Bobby/Barbara settles down into the sleeping bag he/she still has his/her woman's shoes on. See more »Quotes
Don: [very fast] You know I wouldn't be surprised / That gasket hood looks pulverized / The shock recoil is now reversed / At first you'd boil and then you'd burst / Compression seep will soon distend / The leak that leaks in your big end / The lousy coke has got a hitch around the choke adjustment switch / Your piston spout is dynamite / In cutting out the parking light / And, from its shake, your outside brake is needing a new drum!Don, Cyril, Steve, Edwin: [slower] In fact make no mistake, you've really had it chum!
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Foot-tapperBy Bruce Welch Hank B. Marvin (as Hank Marvin)
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The film-musical of Cliff Richard and The Shadows is a selection of brassy dance sets and a couple of The Shadows songs with a basic story where bus mechanics take a bus to France, pick up some girls going to Athens, and an American "boy" stows away to ensure a US cinema release. Along the way they stop in a very Greek looking Yugoslavia and meet some Kossacks (in Yugoslavia ?) who must have come across the Black Sea and got lost or kidnapped by Tito. Product placements - BEA airlines, Intervilla Holidays and BP Zoom Scooter 2 stroke fuel mix.