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Summer Holiday

  • 19631963
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 47m
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Lionel Murton, Lauri Peters, and Cliff Richard in Summer Holiday (1963)
A fabulous 1960s musical: Four 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 manage a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three 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 VERY ambitious mother and her aide 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. The young American boy turns out to be the missing American girl. Mayhem ensues as the lead character, Don (Cliff Richard) falls for Barbara. Eventually, when the eight bus riders reach Athens, they're arrested for kidnapping. In front of her mother and a ballroom filled with world-press, Barbara and Don declare their love for each other and the mother accepts--after realizing how 'big' Don will become. The film ends with all eight people on a beach in Greece, very much enjoying their well-deserved holiday.
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A fabulous 1960s musical: Four 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... Read allA fabulous 1960s musical: Four 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 manage a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three ladies ... Read allA fabulous 1960s musical: Four 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 manage a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They als... Read all
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    • Director
      • Peter Yates
    • Writers
      • Peter Myers(original story and screenplay)
      • Ronald Cass(original story and screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Cliff Richard
      • Lauri Peters
      • Melvyn Hayes
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Peter Yates
    • Writers
      • Peter Myers(original story and screenplay)
      • Ronald Cass(original story and screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Cliff Richard
      • Lauri Peters
      • Melvyn Hayes
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    • 29User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews

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    Cliff Richard
    Cliff Richard
    • Don
    Lauri Peters
    Lauri Peters
    • Barbara
    Melvyn Hayes
    Melvyn Hayes
    • Cyril
    Una Stubbs
    Una Stubbs
    • Sandy
    Teddy Green
    • Steve
    Pamela Hart
    • Angie
    Jeremy Bulloch
    Jeremy Bulloch
    • Edwin
    Jacqueline Daryl
    • Mimsie
    Madge Ryan
    Madge Ryan
    • Stella
    Lionel Murton
    • Jerry
    Christine Lawson
    • Annie
    Ron Moody
    Ron Moody
    • Orlando
    David Kossoff
    David Kossoff
    • Magistrate
    Wendy Barrie
    • Shepherdess
    • (as Wendy Barry)
    • …
    Nicholas Phipps
    Nicholas Phipps
    • Wrightmore
    The Shadows
      Lindsay Dolan
      • Dancer
      Richard Farley
      • Dancer
      • Director
        • Peter Yates
      • Writers
        • Peter Myers(original story and screenplay)
        • Ronald Cass(original story and screenplay)
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      • Trivia
        Jeremy Bulloch, who played the youngest mechanic Edwin, played Boba Fett in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi."
      • Goofs
        Cliff and his mates are wearing the same clothes for 7 days during the bus repairs/remodelling.
      • 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!

      • Crazy credits
        The opening credits are in black and white with a montage of shots of a rainy British summer.
      • Connections
        Featured in That's Showbusiness: Holiday Special (1989)
      • Soundtracks
        Seven Days To A Holiday
        By Peter Myers Ronald Cass

        Sung by Cliff Richard and The Mike Sammes Singers (uncredited)

      User reviews29

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      Top review
      5/10
      Stop The Bus, I Want To Get Off...
      I really only watched this early 60's British musical in remembrance of the recently deceased actress Una Stubbs as I'm not a fan of the film's anodyne star Cliff Richard. I guess most countries of the time produced their own "home-grown Elvis" in the wake of the U. S. sensation's success and Richard was the United Kingdom's entry. Young, slim, handsome and with a pleasant singing voice, but distinctly lacking in on-screen charisma or personality, this film was an attempt to break him in the States but that exercise in taking coals to Newcastle failed with the unfortunate timing of the movie's release coinciding as it did with the assassination of President Kennedy which threw the nation into mourning. Not so the U. K. however, where the film was a smash hit.

      Richard leads his gang of merry pranksters through Continental Europe in a customised red London Corporation bus for no strong reason I can discern. Along the way he and his three goofy friends, including the rather camp Melvyn Hayes, somewhat inappropriately playing Miss Stubbs' boy-friend, pick up Una and her two singing girl-friends and next collect a stowaway, Laurie Peters, who just happens to be an American singing star on the run from her overbearing, publicity-seeking old mum and her lackey manager. Cliff's backing group The Shadows are occasionally seen in the background, again for no particular reason. I can only think that the reason why they couldn't play Cliff's mates themselves was because they were one too many or just couldn't act.

      Overloaded with songs, some of them awful and a few of them at best pleasant, like the title track and familiar Richard hits "The Next Time" (actually a straight copy of Bobby Vee's "Run To Him"), the irritatingly singalong "Bachelor Boy" (the aim of which, he has indeed achieved) and the best of them, the bright, catchy "Dancin' Shoes", there are all the usual misunderstandings and cases of mistaken identities you'd expect in a light family entertainment feature as this. A pre-Fagin Ron Moody makes an appearance in an embarrassingly overlong mime-skit, David Kossof pops up as a condescending magistrate and there are other cringeworthy encounters including a mildly creepy one where a dirty-minded Richard reimagines an assortment of old ladies and young schoolgirls as sexy pin-ups and later run-ins with a stereotypical horde of Yugoslavian rural peasants and the Austrian border guard.

      Peter Yates, who would go on to much better things, basically just follows the bus and tries to enliven things every now and again with some trick photography and choreographed dance numbers but the overall feeling conveyed here is one of forced niceness, for want of a better description. The acting is insipid at best although Miss Stubbs, for the record, displays more personality than most and is underused but on the whole, popular as it was at the time, "Summer Holiday" is one vacation I'd rather have missed.
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      • Release date
        • March 15, 1963 (Ireland)
      • Country of origin
        • United Kingdom
      • Languages
        • French
        • English
      • Also known as
        • Holiday für dich und mich
      • Filming locations
        • Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
      • Production company
        • Ivy Films
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 47 minutes
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.35 : 1

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