HOLIDAY FILMOGRAPHY PART 6 (1956 - 1967)

1956:

Fun on a Weekend, Carlyle. Produced and Directed by Oliver Negus. Cast: Chris and Jennifer. Children. Cornwall. Children rescue boy stranded on beach.

A Touch of the Sun, Raystro (Eros). Directed by Gordon Parry. Cast: Frankie Howerd. Comedy. Hotel Porter inherits £10,000 and has staff pose as guests to impress prospective purchasers.

Three Men in a Boat, Remus (IFD). (Novel Jerome K. Jerome) Directed by Ken Annakin. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards, David Tomlinson. Comedy. Boating holiday.

Three Men In A Boat (1956)

1957:

Small Hotel, Welwyn (AB-Pathe). Directed by David MacDonald. Cast: Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr, John Loder. Comedy. Old hotel waiter refuses to be replaced by young girl.

Not Wanted On Voyage, Byron/Ronald Shiner (Renown). Directed by Maclean Rogers. Cast: Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix. Comedy. Stewards thwart jewel thieves on cruise to Tangiers.

Barnacle Bill, USA: All At Sea. Ealing (MGM).  Directed by Charles Frend. Cast: Alec Guinness, Irene Browne. Comedy. Seasick sailor runs stationary cruise on old pier in spite of council opposition.

1958:

Next To No Time! Montepelier (BL). Directed by Henry Cornelius. Screenplay (Novel) Paul Gallico (The Enchanted Hour). Cast: Kenneth More, Betsy Drake. Comedy. Shy designer gains confidence during nightly ‘lost hour’ aboard Queen Elizabeth.

Girls At Sea, ABPC. Directed by Gilbert Gunn. Screenply (Play) Stephen King-Hall, Ian Hay (The Middle Watch). Cast: Guy Rolfe, Ronald Shiner. Comedy. Girls taken to sea on battleship must be hidden from admiral.

Further Up The Creek, Byron/Hammer (Col). Directed by Val Guest. Cast: David Tomlinson, Frankie Howerd. Comedy. Lieutenant, put in charge of old frigate, is unaware that bosun is hiding paying passengers.

1959:

The Captain’s Table, Rank (RFD). Directed by Jack Lee. Cast: John Gregson, Peggy Cummings. Comedy. Cargo captain takes over luxury cruise and gets involved with widow and adventuress.

Nudist Paradise, Reissue: 1962. Orb International. Directed by Charles Saunders Cast: Anita Love, Carl Conway. Spielplatz. American art student falls for girl and joins nudist camp to be near her.

1960:

The Nudist Story, Danziger (Eros). Directed by Ramsey Herrington. Cast: Shelley Martin, Brian Cobby. Nudist camp.

The Entertainer, Woodfall/Holly (Bry). Screenply (Play) John Osborne. Directed by Tony Richardson. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright. Drama. Morecombe, 1956.

The Entertainer (1960)

No Kidding, USA: Beware of Children. GHW. Screenplay (Novel) Verily Anderson (Beware of Children). Produced by Peter Rogers, Directed by Gerald Thomas. Cast: Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan. Comedy. Couple inherit holiday home for deprived children of the rich.

1961:

Ticket to Paradise, Bayford (Eros). Directed by Francis Searle. Cast: Emrys Jones, Patricia Dainton. Romance. Italy. Travel agent and tourist fall in love, each thinking the other is rich.

Some Like It Cool, SF Films. Directed by Michael Winner. Cast: Julie Wilson, Thalia Vickers. Devon. Nudists.

Don’t Bother To Knock, USA: Why Bother To Knock. Haileywood (WPD). Directed by Cyril Frankel. Screenplay (Novel) Clifford Hanley (Love From Everybody). Cast: Richard Todd, Nicole Maurey, Elke Sommer, Judith Anderson, June Thorburn. Comedy. Edinburgh. Travel agent’s European girlfriends all arrive together.

A Taste of Honey, Woodfall (Bry). Produced and Directed by Tony Richardson. Screenplay (Play)  Shelagh Delany. Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan. Blackpool sequence.

Nudes of the World, Miracle/Searchlight (Miracle). Directed by Arnold Louis Miller. Cast: Vivienne Raimon, Monique Ammon. Beauty queen runs nudist camp in lord’s grounds and appeases postmistress with fete for crippled daughter.

Naked As Nature Intended, Markten/Compass (Compton). Produced and Directed by Harrison Marks. Cast: Pamela Green, Stuart Samuels. Travelogue/ Cornwall nudist camp.

1962:

Carry On Cruising, GHW. Directed by Gerald Thomas. Cast: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams. Mediterranean cruise.

Carry On Cruising (1962)

World Without Shame, Mistral (Gala). Directed by Donovan Winter. Cast: Yvonne Martel, Larry Bowen. Nudist. Pools winners live naked on Mediterranean island.

Jigsaw, Figaro (Britannia). Directed by Val Guest. Screenplay (Novel) Hilary Waugh (Sleep Long, My Love). Cast: Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis. Crime. Brighton.

The Punch and Judy Man, MacConkey (WPD). Directed by Jeremy Summers. Cast: Tony Hancock, Sylvia Sims. Comedy. Seaside entertainer, married to social climber, spoils mayor’s celebration cabaret.

My Bare Lady, Meadway/Notram Sewil (Compton). Directed by Arthur Knight. Cast: Julie Martin, Carl Conway. Nudist. Orpington. American war hero converts tourist to naturism.

1963:

Summer Holiday, Ivy/Elstree (WPD). Directed by Peter Yates. Cast: Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Ron Moody, The Shadows. Musical. European tour.

Summer Holiday (1963)

The Leather Boys, Raymond Stross (Garrick). Directed by Sidney J. Furie. S (Novel) Eliot George. Cast: Rita Tushingham, Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson, Colin Campbell. Butlin’s Bognor Regis sequence.

Take Off Your Clothes and Live, Miracle/Searchlight (Miracle). Directed by Arnold Louis Miller. Cast: Ian Michael, Gino Nennan, Jenny Lane. Cannes. Nine girls and male hosts spend naked holiday searching for treasure.

Eves On Skis, Keatering (Gala). Produced and Directed by Michael Keatering. Cast: Elizabeth, Karl, Karen. Teenage London girl spends naturist holiday in the Austrian Alps.

The V.I.P.s, MGM British. Directed by Anthony Asquith. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Margaret Rutherford. Passengers for New York stranded at London Airport.

The Reluctant Nudist, Avon Overseas (Gala). Directed by Stanley Pelc. Cast: Annette Briand, Jeremy Howes. Nudist. Spielplatz

1964:

It’s A Bare, Bare World, Antler (SF). Directed by Stanley Lang. Cast: Vicki Kennedy, Carol Haynes, Vera Novak. Nudist. Windsor. Girls persuade friends to join nudist camp.

The System, Winner-Shipman (Bry). Directed by Michael Winner. Cast: Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow. Romance. Torbay. Beach photographer sleeps with rich holidaymaker and falls in love with her.

The Beauty Jungle, USA: Contest Girl. Rank (RFD). Produced and Directed by Val Guest. Cast: Janette Scott, Ian Hendry, Edmund Purdom. Drama. Reporter helps Bristol typist to become professional beauty contest winner.

Wonderful Life, USA: Swinger’s Paradise. Ivy (Elstree). Directed by Sidney J. Furie. Cast: Cliff Richards, Susan Hampshire, The Shadows. Musical. Canary Islands. Cruise scene.

Every Day’s A Holiday, USA: Seaside Swingers. Fitzroy/Maycroft (GN). Directed by James Hill. Cast: John Leyton, Mike Sarne, Freddie and the Dreamers, Ron Moody. Musical. Butlin’s Clacton.

1965:

Be My Guest, Three Kings (RFD). Directed by Robert Asher. Cast: David Hemmings, Avril Angers. Musical. Brighton.

San Ferry Ann, Dormar (BL). Directed by Jeremy Summers. Cast: Rodney Bewes, Wilfred Brambell, Ron Moody, Joan Sims. Comedy. Misadventures of British holidaymakers in France.

Cuckoo Patrol, Eternal (GN). Directed by Duncan Wood. Cast: Freddie and the Dreamers. Comedy. Misadventures of Boy Scouts at summer camp.

1966:

That Riviera Touch, Rank (RFD). Directed by Cliff Owen. Cast: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise. Comedy. France. Girl reforms and helps holidaymakers thwart jewel thieves.

That Riviera Touch (1966)

Hotel Paradiso, Maximilian (MGM). (Adapted from Feydeau farce). Produced and Directed by Peter Glenville. Cast: Alec Guinness, Gina Lollabrigida, Robert Morely. Comedy. Paris. Compromising complications of couples at disreputable hotel. (Shown 1971).

1967:

Poor Cow, Fenchurch/Vic, Directed Ken Loach, Cast: Carol White, Terence Stamp. Drama. Includes scenes of both a seaside holiday and camping holiday.




Bibliography:
Gifford, 2001, Catalogue of British Film

HOLIDAY FILMOGRAPHY PART 4 (1931 - 1946)

1931:

No Lady, Reissue: 1943. Gaumont. Directed by Lupino Lane. Cast: Lupino Lane. Comedy. Blackpool.

Hindle Wakes, Gaumont. (Adapted from Stanley Houghton’s 1912 play). Produced by Michael Balcon, Directed by Victor Saville. Cast: Sybil Thorndike. Drama. Blackpool.

The sinister song plugger in Hindle Wakes (1931)

1932:

Hotel Splendide, Film Engineering (Ideal). Directed by Michael Powell. Cast: Jerry Verno, Vera Sherburne. Comedy. Clerk inherits seaside hotel built on field where ex-convict buried loot.

Strip, Strip Hooray! BIP (Pathe). Directed by Norman Lee. Cast: Ken Douglas, Betty Norton. Comedy. Photographer blackmails fiancee’s father with sunbathing snaps.

Old Spanish Customers, BIP (Wardour). Directed by Lupino Lane. Cast: Leslie Fuller, Drusilla Wills, Binnie Barnes. Comedy. Spain. Henpeck on prize holiday mistaken for toreador.

Holiday Lovers, Harry Cohen (Fox). Directed by Jack Harrison. Cast: Marjorie Pickard, George Vollaire. Romance. Couple meet on holiday and each pretend to be rich.

1933:

To Brighton With Gladys, George King (Fox). Directed by George King. Cast: Harry Milton, Constance Shotter. Comedy. Man must take rich uncle’s pet penguin from London to seaside.

Three Men in a Boat, ATP (ABFD). Directed by Graham Cutts. (Novel Jerome K. Jerome). Cast: William Austin, Edmond Breon, Billy Milton. Comedy. Boating holiday.

1934:

On the Air, Reissue: 1939. (EB) British Lion. Directed by Herbert Smith. Cast: Davy Burnaby, Anona Winn, Max Wall. Musical. Radio stars on holiday help village vicar stage concert.

Boots! Boots! Reissue: 1938. (Amb; 25 mins cut). Blakely (Butcher). Directed by Bert Tracey. Cast: George Formby. Musical. Hotel ‘Boots; and scullery maid star in cabaret.

Autumn Crocus, ATP (ABFD). Producer/Directed Basil Dean. Cast: Ivor Novello. Romance. Teacher on holiday falls in love with married innkeeper.

Seeing is Believing, B & D Paramount British. Directed by Redd Davis. Cast: Billy Hartnell. Comedy. Police recruit mistakes girl for thief and trails her aboard father’s cruise ship.

Gracie Fields sings as the lights go down over Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Sing As We Go (1934)

Sing As We Go, Reissue: 1953. (EB). ATP (ABFD). Producer/Director Basil Dean. Cast: Gracie Fields, John Loder, Stanley Holloway. Comedy. Blackpool.

1935:

All At Sea, Fox British. Directed by Anthony Kimmins. Cast: Tyrell Davis, Googie Withers. Comedy. Timid clerk spends legacy on sea cruise and poses as author.

Florrie and George arrive at the hotel at Douglas...

...and George is offered a room with a sea view in No Limit (1935)

No Limit, Reissue: 1946. ATP (ABFD). Produced by Basil Dean, Directed by Monty Banks. Cast: George Formby. Comedy. Isle of Man.

Little Paper People, (ABFD). Producer/Director Margaret Hoyland. Trick. Paper marionettes: Victorian foibles and seaside characters.

1936:

Love At Sea, B & D/ Paramount British. Directed by Adrian Brunel. Cast: Rosalyn Boulter. Comedy. Girl on cruise loves reporter accused of robbing her elderly suitor.

Unlucky Jim, Master (RKO). Directed by Harry S. Marks. Cast: Bob Stevens, Agnes Lenton. Comedy. Adventures of two boys on half-day’s holiday.

1937:

Not Wanted On Voyage, USA: Treachery on the High Seas. Dela Films (BL). Directed by Emil E. Reinert. (Based on play by Maurice Messenger Murder in the Stalls). Cast: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon. Comedy. Singer and crooks seek ruby necklace during transatlantic voyage.

Ship’s Concert, WB-FN (Warner). Directed by Leslie Hiscott. Cast: Claude Hulbert, Joyce Kirby. Musical. Luxury cruise passengers put on show to aid stowaway actors.

Catch As Catch Can, Reissue: 1943 (200 ft cut); 1947 Atlantic Episode (Stah) Fox British. Directed by Roy Kellino. Cast: James Mason. Crime. Girl smuggles diamond aboard transatlantic liner and crooks try to steal it.

Change For a Sovereign, WB-FN (FN). Directed by Maurice Elvey. Cast: Seymour Hicks, Chili Bouchier. Comedy. Ruritania. Drunken double takes place of king on holiday.

Transatlantic Trouble, Retitled: Take it From Me, WB-FN (FN) Directed by William Beaudine. Cast: Max Miller. Comedy. Dud boxer elopes on liner with lady and his pursuing manager is mistaken for millionaire.

Non-Stop New York, Reissue: 1947 (NR) Gaumont (GFD). Directed by Robert Stevenson. S (Novel) Ken Attiwell (Sky Steward). Cast: John Loder, Anna Lee. Crime. 1940. Gangsters try to kill chorus-girl witness who stows away in transatlantic airliner.

The Live Wire, Reissue: 1946 (NR) Tudor/Olympic (BL), Directed by Hernert Brenon. S (Play) Stafford Dickens (Plunder in the Air). Cast: Bernard Nedell. Comedy. Yankee trickster reforms and turns worthless land into spa.

Sam Small Leaves Town, Reissue: 1942, It’s Sam Small Again (Fed; 9 mins cut) British Screen Service. Directed by Alfred Goulding. Cast: Stanley Holloway. Comedy. Butlin’s, Skegness.

1938:

Bank Holiday, USA: Three on a Weekend. Reissue: 1951 (GFD; 18 mins cut), Gainsborough (GFD). Directed by Carol Reed. Cast: John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Wally Patch, Kathleen Harrison. Drama. Brighton.

Kathleen Harrison and children on the pier in Bank Holiday (1938)

 

John Lodge and Margaret Lockwood try to sleep on the beach in Bank Holiday

It’s In The Blood, WB-FN (FN). Directed by Gene Gerrard. S (Novel) David Whitelaw (The Big Picture). Cast: Claude Hulbert. Comedy. Film fan on day trip to Bologne catches jewel thieves.

Double or Quits, WB-FN (Warner). Directed by Roy William Neill. Cast: Frank Fox. Crime. Reporter is double of thief who steals rare stamps on transatlantic liner.

Hey! Hey! USA! Reissue: 1951 (17 mins cut) Gainsborough (GFD), Directed by Marcel Varnel. Cast: Will Hay, Edgar Kennedy Comedy. Tutor on transatlantic liner mistaken by gangster saves millionaire’s son from kidnappers.

1939:

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday, 20th. Century Productions (20^th). Directed by Walter Forde. Cast: Gordon Harker, Alistair Sim. Crime.

The Middle Watch, ABPC. (Based on play by Ian King and Stephen King-Hall) Directed by Thomas Bentley. Cast: Jack Buchanan, Greta Gynt. Comedy. Girls accidentally taken to sea aboard battleship must be hidden from admiral.

1940:

Return to Yesterday, Reissue: 1944 (Renown), Ealing/CAPAD (ABFD). Directed by Robert Stevenson, Screenplay (Play) Robert Morley (Goodness, How Sad). Cast: Clive Brook, Anna Lee. Romance. Hollywood star posing as actor joins seaside repertory company and falls for affianced leading lady.

1941:

Gert and Daisy’s Weekend, Reissue: 1945 (Sherwood; 10 mins cut), Butcher. Cast: Elsie Waters, Doris Waters. Comedy. Cockney sisters take evacuees on a trip to the countryside.

1943:

Millions Like Us, Reissue: 1947 (ABFD; cut), Gainsborough (GFD). Cast: Eric Portman, Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson. War. Family spends peacetime holiday at the seaside prior to Second World War.

1944:

Hotel Reserve, RKO. Directed by Lance Comfort, Max Greene. Cast: James Mason. Crime. France, 1938. Hotel guest unmasks spy who used his camera by mistake

Chaps on the beach in Hotel Reserve (1944)

1945:

Here We Come Gathering, Wallace (GFD). Produced and Directed by Barry Delmaine. Children, Kent. Unpopular boy on fruit-picking holiday rescues girl from sandpit.

1946:

Hands Across The Ocean, Gordon (BL). Directed by Harry Gordon. Cast: Pearl Cameron, Sgt Bill Swyre. Romance. GI and English girl fall in love and tour England.

Under New Management, Reissue: 1948 Honeymoon Hotel (cut). Mancunian (Butcher). Producer and Director John E. Blakeley. Cast: Nat Jackley, Norman Evans. Comedy. Sweep inherits hotel and staffs it with army pals.

Quiet Weekend, ABPC (Pathe). Directed by Harold French. Cast: Derek Farr, Barbara White. Comedy. Family spend hectic weekend of romance and poaching at country cottage.



Bibliography:
Gifford, 2001, Catalogue of British Film