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Summer Holiday [1963] | ![Summer Holiday [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p8vEjyEML._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Una Stubbs, Ron Moody, Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters
Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 995
Format: Anamorphic, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.6
EAN: 5060034576778
ASIN: B000MRP3US
Theatrical Release Date: 1963
Release Date: February 26, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 7 to 11 days
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 Classic stuff! Who forgot the petrol?!! September 14, 2008
Big John (UK)
This film is very much of its time. It is light entertainment and all the better for that. Yes perhaps the story is a bit thin, the plot just a bit predictable. But Cliff Richard, playing very much the "Elvis", as he was seen at the time, sings his heart out and acts surprisingly well. In fact the whole cast is very well done, with The Shadows (the guys on the bikes lead by the inimitable Hank Marvin) making some nice little cameo performances, and playing too. Una stubbs is of course very good too as you might expect. At the time, taking an old London bus on an adventure like this would have been seen as nigh on impossible.Exotic and glamorous too! But the whole film captures a simpler more gentle era. It even captures the now defunct works in London where buses were maintained and refurbished, you can almost smell the oil and grease in the place! Look at the way they rotated them on giant spits! br /How many of us have dreamed of taking an old London bus and doing this? I know I have! br /This was one of the first films I ever saw and the music screamed up the charts at the time. It has some real classics not least the title song, but what about the heartbreaking "Next time"? Not to mention Bachelor Boy. br /"Who forgot the petrol?"!!!!
Fun for all the Family (as long as they don't take it too seriously!) August 4, 2008
Natasha Catmur (Wiltshire, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I remember really enjoying this when I was a kid so I rented it for my children to see (3 boys aged 8,7 7 and a girl aged 4) but I didn't expect them to enjoy it quite as much as they did. They are now driving me mad singing Bachelor Boy almost non-stop but they loved the whole thing. The adventure of travelling around in a bus, the singing and dancing, the fun of "Fagin" doing his mime and the near-wedding to the poor Yugoslav girl - I'd forgotten quite how good it was and the children are really disappointed that I have to send it back. Please don't take it too seriously and just enjoy but I imagine if you are even looking at a review of Summer Holiday then you will enjoy it.
 Enjoyable and nice to watch as document of an era March 18, 2008
P-M-R (Warsaw, Poland)
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
Launched just months before Beatlemania took its toll (in February 1963), this musical film clearly shows that efforts to keep UK teens tied to their hitherto idols were completely in vain at this stage. Despite being at his early 20s, Cliff Richard already belongs to the previous era and is not able to keep inspiring the mass audience in longer perspective (apart from the one strongly "Congratulations"-oriented). While there are still a few catchy tunes included in the score (title one or "Bachelor Boy", both big hits in weeks after the premiere and both backed by the Shadows), the rest is completely "inconsistent" with Richard's earlier musical profile and suspended somewhere between the waltz, vaudeville and reminiscences of more "jazzy" parts of "West Side Story" (thus much far from what has already become the "mainstream" teen demand) br / br /Having considered above, we can still watch this movie with some pleasure, as a kind of document of an era of "innocent youth", long gone by. The pleasure will not be much spoilt by totally stupid screenplay (being a part of the game in this type of productions), Richard's poor acting abilities (more or less Elvis Presley's "Hawaii series" level) and choreography remaining only a pale shadow of dance-song integration standards achieved many years earlier in MGM, 20th Century Fox or Warner's classics (though of course being still a kind of novelty in British and European film musicals) br / br /Emphasised should be that the film was carefully transferred on DVD, with original widescreen aspect ratio retained and quite good sound (though in mono). A minus remains lack of any "special features" added.
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