Summer Holiday (1963)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Peter Yates

Writers:

Peter Myers (original story and screenplay) and
Ronald Cass (original story and screenplay)

Release Date:

18 February 1963 (UK)

Genre:

Musical | Romance

Tagline:

From the First Kiss to the Last Blush It's the Craziest Riot On Wheels!

Plot:

A fabulous 60s Musical - 4 London Bus mechanics strike up a deal with London Transport. They do up a double decker London Bus...

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Cliff Richard	...	Don
Lauri Peters	...	Barbara Winters
Melvyn Hayes	...	Cyril
Una Stubbs	...	Sandy
Teddy Green	...	Steve
Pamela Hart	...	Angie
Jeremy Bulloch	...	Edwin
Jacqueline Daryl	...	Mimsie
Madge Ryan	...	Stella Winters
Lionel Murton	...	Jerry
Christine Lawson	...	Annie
Ron Moody	...	The Great Orlando
David Kossoff	...	Magistrate
Wendy Barrie	...	Shepherdess
Nicholas Phipps	...	Mr. Wrightmore

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:U

Filming Locations:

Aldenham Bus Depot, Aldenham, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Company:

Elstree Distributors

Trivia:

Despite popular misconception, the model of bus driven by Cliff Richard was not a Routemaster but an AEC Regent.

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!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Comic Relief: The Invasion of the Comic Tomatoes (1993) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Orlando's Mime

Teeners refurbish an old London double-decker bus to go on tour.

If you didn't like the story, of which there was very little, you would have enjoyed the songs and the sheer teen exuberance of the whole idea - going on a summer holiday tour in an old London double-decker.

In my case, it was just the right amount of medicine for a thirteen-year old with bad case of angst and weltschmerz. I felt the song "The Next Time" was all about me. At the time Cliff Richard was the British counterpart of Pat Boone - clean cut, a little naughty sometimes but generally a "good boy." No parent complained about him.

Cliff's songs were very big hits in my country and we made good although somewhat senseless use of his "Bachelor Boy." As senior scouts we went camping at Mount Makiling, the former site of a World Scouting Jamboree. At 10:00 p.m. after taps when all lights should be out and everybody should be asleep, we would sing it boisterously and a scoutmaster would go up our camping ground, a long way from the tourist lodge where he was staying, to scold the delinquents into piping down. Only he didn't know it was us because the boys from other schools in the other tents never squealed on us. They must have enjoyed our singing.