HOLIDAY FILMOGRAPHY PART 3 (1914 - 1930)

A baby in the luggage rack of a crowded train en route to Blackpool in Hindle Wakes (1927)

1914:

Oh What a Day! Hepworth, Directed by (Hay Plumb). Comedy. Holiday husband loses ticket and hides in trunk.

Winky Goes Camping, Bamforth (YSA) Directed by Cecil Birch. Cast: Reggie Switz. Comedy.

Fun on the Sands at Blackpool, AKA Fun at the Seaside, Blackpool Town Hall (KTC). Cast: August, September, E Hannaford, E Alrag. Comedy. Family’s misadventures at Blackpool beach and funfair.

1915:

The Painted Lady Betty. Hepworth. Directed by Frank Wilson. Cast: Tom Powers, Alma Taylor, Chrissie White. Romance. Lyme Regis.

Oh My! Bamforth (YCC) Directed by Cecil Birth. Cast: Reggie Switz. Comedy. Hotel porter causes confusion by exchanging room numbers.

Winky (Reggie Switz - on the right) and friends in Sharps and Flats (1915)

Winky's letter to his wife in Sharps and Flats (1915)

Adulterous draft-dodger Winky! Sharps and Flats (1915)

Sharps and Flats. Bamforth (YCC) Directed by Cecil Birth. Cast: Reggie Switz. Comedy. Winky avoids enlisting for the army and goes on a camping holiday with young floozies.

Pimple’s Holiday. Picadilly (Browne). Directed by Fred Evans. Cast: Joe Evans, Fred Evans. Comedy. Two men meet their wives on holiday at the Karsino.

Bertie’s Holiday. Moonshine (YCC). Cast: Bertie Wright. Comedy. Yokel dons clothes of his dude double.

Nipper’s Busy Holiday. Reissue: 1919, His Busy Holiday. (Globe) John Bull (Davidson). Cast: S Reginald, Lupino Lane. Comedy.

1916:

Silas at the Seaside. Picadilly (Browne). Directed Joe Evans. Cast: Joe Evans. Comedy. Bumpkin is robbed and takes job as Bath chair attendant.

1917:

Pimple’s Motor Tour. Picadilly (Walturdaw). Directed Fred Evans, Joe Evans. Cast: Fred Evans. Comedy.

Curly’s Holiday, Tower. Producer, Director J. F. Carr. Cast: J. F. Carr. Comedy. Blackpool. (In conjunction with £5 prize for discovering ‘Curly’ in audience).

1918:

Hindle Wakes, Diamond Super (Royal). (Adapted from Stanley Houghton’s 1912 play). Directed by Maurice Elvey. Cast: Norman McKinnel, Colette O’Neil. Romance. Blackpool.

Miss Mischief, Midland Actors. Directed by Max Leder. Cast: Phyllis Lea, Dorothy Brame, Bruce Channing. Comedy. Blackpool.

1920:

Trotter on the Trot, Southend Films. Directed Tom Aitken. Cast: Arthur Lenville, Irene Tripod. Comedy. Southend. Henpeck tries to elude wife at seaside.

Down on the Farm, Empire Comedies (Film Sales). Directed by Maurice Sandground. Cast: Charles Stevens, Muriel Sothern. Comedy. Man and chorus girl spend holiday on health farm.

Three Men in a Boat. Artistic. Directed by Challis Sanderson. (Novel Jerome K Jerome). Cast: Lionelle Howard, Manning Haynes, Johnny Butt. Comedy. Boating holiday.

The Holiday Husband. Alliance (Shaftsbury). Directed by A. C. Hunter. Cast: Harry Welchman, Irma Royce. Drama.

1921:

Pins and Needles, Gliddon d’ Eyncourt Productions. Directed by John Gliddon. Cast: Francis Innys, Elizabeth Brandt. Comedy. Margate. Man on motor scooter follows girl and saves her from cad.

Four Men in a Van, Reissue: 1925 (United; cut) Direct Film Traders/Titan. Directed by/Script by Hugh Croise. S (novel) ‘R. Andom’ (We Three and Troddles). Cast: Manning Haynes, Donald Searle, Moore Marriott. Comedy. Episodic misadventures of friends on caravan holiday.

1922:

Keeping Man Interested, Quality Plays (Walturdaw). Directed by George A. Cooper. Cast: Sydney N. Folker, Joan McLean. Comedy. Couple change minds about separate holidays and mistake each other for burglars.

1925:

The Only Man, Retitled: The Leading Man. Directed by Harry B. Parkinson. Cast: Moore Marriott. Comedy. Canvey Island. Wife catches husband flirting in bathing beauty contest.

Milestone Melodies, (Series). Reciprocity. P. G. B. Samuelson. Directed by Alexander Butler. Musical picturisations of lyrics. ‘I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside’.

1926:

Walter’s Day Out, British Super Comedies. (Wardour). Directed by James B. Sloan. Cast: Walter Forde. Comedy.

Laughing at a Donald McGill postcard in Hindle Wakes (1927)

1927:

Hindle Wakes, USA: Fanny Hawthorne. (Adapted from Stanley Houghton’s 1912 play). Produced by Maurice Elvey, Victor Saville. Directed by Maurice Elvey. Cast: Estelle Brody, John Stuart. Romance. Blackpool.

1928:

Weekend Wives, BIP (Wardour). Directed by Harry Lachman. Cast: Monty Banks. Comedy. Deauville.

1929:

The Three Kings, British and Foreign films (Silent). Directed by Hans Steinhoff. Cast: Henry Edwards, Evelyn Holt, Warwick Ward. Drama. Blackpool. Clown loves young housekeeper and saves her from fire caused by jealous lion-tamer.

Atlantic, (Trilingual). Reissue: 1935. BIP (Wardour). Producer/Directed E. A. Dupont. Cast: Madeleine Carroll. Drama. Transatlantic passenger liner strikes iceberg and sinks.

The Hate Ship, (Bilingual). Directed by Norman Walker. Cast: Jameson Thomas, Jean Colin. Crime. Son of murdered Russian count invites suspects on revenge cruise.




Bibliography:
Gifford, 2001, Catalogue of British Film