1947:
Bank
Holiday Luck, Baxter (ABFD). Directed by Baynham Honri.Cast: Fred Wynne, Olive
Sloane. Comedy. Builders recount adventures on previous bank holiday.
Bush
Christmas, Reissue: 1950 (ABFD), 1971 (15 mins cut). Ralph Smart. Directed by
Ralph Smart (GFD). Cast: Chips Rafferty. Children. New South Wales.
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| Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison arrive at the camp in Holiday Camp (1948) |
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| Jimmy Hanley and Hazel Court by the pool in Holiday Camp |
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| Esma Cannon takes part in the beauty contest in Holiday Camp |
Holiday
Camp, Reissue: 1948, 1954 (Monarch,12 mins cut). Gainsborough (GFD). Directed
by Ken Annakin. Cast: Flora Robson, Dennis Price, Jack Warner, Kathleen
Harrison. Comedy. Butlin’s, Filey.
Brighton
Rock, ABPC (Pathe). Directed John Boulting. Cast: Richard Attenborough.
Crime. Brighton, 1938.
1948:
The
Gentlemen Go By, AIPGB (Electa). Directed by J. Widgey Newman, John Calthrop. Cast:
Conrad Phillips, Alastair Bannerman. Crime. Ex-sailor joins smuggling gang
using holiday camp as front.
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| Frank Randle on Blackpool pier in Holidays With Pay (1948) |
Holidays
With Pay, Reissue: 1950 (cut). Film Studios Manchester. (Mancunian).
Producer and Director John E. Blakeley. Cast: Frank Randle, Tessie O’Shea. Comedy.
Blackpool. (Extract in Tonight’s The
Night, 1960, Seaside Frolics).
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| Tessie O'Shea falls into the sea in Holidays With Pay |
1949:
Forbidden, Pennant (BL). Produced and
Directed by George King. Cast: Douglas Montgomery, Hazel Court. Crime.
Blackpool. Chemist tries to poison extravagant wife.
A Man’s Affair,
Concord (Ex). Produced and Directed Jay Gardner Lewis. Cast: Hamish Menzies,
Cliff Gordon. Romance. Ramsgate. Playboy tries to spoil miner’s holiday
romances.
Dick
Barton Strikes Back, Exclusive. Directed by Godfrey Grayson. Cast: Don Stannard,
Sebastian Cabot. Crime. Blackpool. Foreign agents beam atomic rays from top of
Tower.
Old
Mother Riley’s New Venture, Reissue: Mother Riley’s New Venture,1953.
Harry Reynolds (Renown). Directed by John Harlow. Cast: Arthur Lucan, Kitty
McShane. Comedy. Dishwasher becomes hotelier and is framed for gem theft.
1950:
Last
Holiday, ABPC/Watergate (AB-Pathe). Produced by Stephen Mitchell, A. D.
Peters, J. B. Priestley, Directed by Henry Cass, Screenplay by J. B. Priestley.
Cast: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh. Comedy. (Torquay).
The
Mysterious Poacher, Reissue: 1973 (18 mins cut).
G-B Instructional (GFD). Directed by Don Chaffey. Cast: Herbert Leidinger. Children.
Austria. Holiday children help gamekeeper trap poacher.
Ha’Penny
Breeze, Storytellers (AB-Pathe). Directed by Frank Worth. Cast: Don
Sharp, Edwin Richfield. Drama. Suffolk. Ex-soldier turns ‘dead’ village into
yachting centre.
1951:
Worm’s
Eye View, Reissue: 1955, (Renown). Byron (ABFD). Directed by Jack Raymond. Cast:
Ronald Shiner, Diana Dors. Comedy. 1942. Adventures of a group of airmen
billeted on seaside landlady.
Penny
Points to Paradise, Advance/PYL (Adelphi). Directed by Tony Young. Cast: Harry
Secombe, Alfred Marks, Peter Sellers. Comedy. Brighton.
Encore, Two Cities/Paramount (GFD).
Winter Cruise segment Directed by Pat
Jackson. Cast: Kay Walsh
1952:
Brandy
for the Parson, Group 3 (ABFD). Directed by John Eldridge. Cast: James Donald,
Kenneth More. Comedy. Couple on yachting holiday become involved with brandy
smugglers.
Hindle
Wakes, USA: Holiday Week.
Monarch. (Adapted from Stanley Houghton’s 1912 play). Directed by Arthur
Crabtree. Cast: Lisa Daniely, Leslie Dwyer, Brian Worth. Romance. Blackpool.
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| Ogling women at the Lido in Hindle Wakes (1952) |
1953:
Genevieve, Reissue: 1960. Sirius
(GFD). Produced and Directed by Henry Cornelius. Cast: Diana Sheridan, John
Gregson, Kay Kendall, Kenneth More. Comedy. Brighton.
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| Vintage cars at Brighton in Genevieve (1953) |
Innocents
in Paris, Reissue: 1956 (Renown, 10 mins cut). Romulus (IFD). Directed by
Anatole de Grunwald. Cast: Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Claire Bloom, Margaret
Rutherford. Comedy. Seven stories of British tourists on a weekend trip to
Paris.
The
Girl on the Pier, Major (Apex). Directed by Lance Comfort. Cast: Veronica Hurst,
Ron Randell. Crime. Brighton.
A
Day to Remember, Group (GFD). Produced by Betty E. Box, Directed by Ralph Thomas.
S (Novel) Jerrard Tickell (The Hand and
the Flower). Cast: Stanley Holloway. Comedy. Adventures of public house
darts team on day trip to Boulogne.
1954:
A
Letter From the Isle of Wight, Rayant (ABFD/CFF). Directed by Brian Salt. Cast:
Robin Doyer, Joy Ray. Children. Coastguard’s son and visiting cousin saved from
sea by lighthouse keepers.
Calling
All Cars, Fancey (NR). Directed by Maclean Rogers. Cast: Cardew Robinson. Comedy.
Friends on a motoring holiday pursue two girls.
Mystery
on Bird Island, Rayant (BL/CFF). Directed by John Haggerty. Cast: Mavis Sage,
Jennifer Beach. Children. Alderney. Holiday children catch smugglers using bird
sanctuary
1955:
The
Lyons in Paris, Hammer (Ex). Directed by Val Guest. Cast: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon,
Barbara Lyon, Richard Lyon. Comedy. Complications when family spend holiday in
Paris.
Out
of the Clouds, Ealing (GFD). Directed by Basil Dearden. Cast: Anthony Steele,
Robert Beatty. Smuggling and romance in fogbound London airport.
The
Love Match, Group 3/Beaconsfield (BL). Directed by David Paltenghi. Cast:
Arthur Askey, Thora Hird. Comedy. Lancashire. Football fans try to replace
stolen holiday funds.
Playground
Express, Grendon (BL/CFF). Directed by John Irwin. Cast: Peter
Butterworth, Humphrey Kent. Brighton.
Song
of Norway, Fancey (NR). Directed by Maclean Rogers. Cast: Eric Micklewood,
Adrienne Scott. Oslo. English girl becomes hotel receptionist, enters ski race
and is rescued from crevasse.
Raising
a Riot, Reissue: 1960. London/Wessex (BL). Directed by Wendy Toye. Cast: Kenneth
More. Comedy. Father copes with children on holiday in old windmill.
The
Secret, Laureate/Golden Era (Eros). Directed by Raker Endfield. Cast: Sam
Wannamaker, Mandy Miller. Crime Brighton.
No
Love For Judy, De Lane Lea/Archway. Directed by Jacques De
Lane Lea. Cast: Ellette Mauret, Zoe Newton. Comedy. Riviera. Model on holiday steals
companion’s boy friends.
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| Brigitte Bardot and Dirk Bogarde in Doctor At Sea (1955) |
Doctor
At Sea, Group (GFD). Directed by Ralph Thomas. S (Novel) Richard Gordon. Cast:
Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot. Comedy. Misadventures of medical officer aboard
passenger-carrying cargo steamer.
Cast
a Dark Shadow, Frobisher (Eros). Directed by Lewis Gilbert. S (Play) Janet Green
(Murder Mistaken). Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood. Crime. Brighton.
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