Summer Holiday (1963 film)

Summer Holiday (1963 film)

Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film starring singer Cliff Richard. The movie was a box-office hit, thus repeating the success of Cliff Richard’s previous film The Young Ones. It was voted the 99th greatest family film in a Channel 4 poll in 1973.

About Summer Holiday (1963 film) in brief

Summary Summer Holiday (1963 film)Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film starring singer Cliff Richard. The movie was a box-office hit, thus repeating the success of Cliff Richard’s previous film The Young Ones. The film was the second most popular movie at the British box office in 1963, after the James Bond feature From Russia with Love. It was voted the 99th greatest family film in a Channel 4 poll in 1973. The opening ten minutes was filmed at the Aldenham Works, Elstree, where Cliff’s character and friends are mechanics at the main bus servicing depot for London Transport.

The rest of the film was shot in Greece. There are 16 song and musical numbers in the film: \”Seven Days to a Holiday\”, \”Let Us Take You for a Ride\”, \”Stranger in Town\”, \”Swinging Affair\”, \”Really Waltzing\”, \”Yugoslavian Wedding\”, \”All At Once\”, \”Summer Holiday\” and “Bachelor Boy” All reached Number one in the British charts during the first three months of 1963. The majority of the dance scenes – with the majority of it with song – were filmed in the US. The dance scenes were shot in the U.S. by choreographer Herbert Ross, an American choreographer.