The film was directed by Peter Yates (his directorial debut), produced by Kneth Harper. The original screplay was writt by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass (who also wrote most of the song numbers and lyrics).
The cast stars Lauri Peters, David Kossoff, Ron Moody and The Shadows and features Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Gre, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, Pamela Hart, Jacqueline Daryl, Madge Ryan, Lionel Murton, Christine Lawson, Wdy Barry and Nicholas Phipps.
Don and frids Cyril, Steve and Edwin are bus mechanics at the huge London Transport bus overhaul works in Aldham, Hertfordshire. During a miserably wet British summer lunch break, Don arrives, having persuaded London Transport to ld him and his frids an AEC Regt III RT double-decker bus. They convert the bus into a holiday caravan, which they drive across contintal Europe, intding to reach the South of France. On the way, they are joined by a trio of young wom Sandy, Angie and Mimsie, who are a singing group Do-Re-Mi, and change their destination to Aths in Greece, which means passing through Yugoslavia. They are also joined by a runaway singer Barbara pretding to be a boy, herself being pursued by her mother Stella and agt Jerry.
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The original director was Sidney Furie but he was held up on The Boys. He was replaced by John Krish. Evtually Peter Yates directed the film.
In April 1962, Associated British Picture Corporation of Elstree bought three used RT double-decker buses (RT2305 (KGU334), RT2366 (KGU395), and RT4326 (NLE990)) from London Transport. They were all converted to look like RT1881 (with a fake registration number, WLB991) so they could be used for filming differt segmts.
The oping t minutes, which were shot in black-and-white, were filmed at the Aldham Works, Elstree, where Cliff's character and frids are mechanics at the main bus servicing depot for London Transport. While on lunch one rainy day, they come up with the idea of converting an old RT bus into a mobile home. They list the help of their workmates in a musical segmt that uses the track Sev Days to a Holiday. The sces were shot at the works in 1962, during its annual summer shutdown.
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There are 16 song and musical numbers in the film: Sev 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, Bachelor Boy, Dancing Shoes, Foot Tapper, Big News, The Next Time, Les Girls, Round and Round, and Orlando's Mime.
The film's producers felt that female lead in the film, Lauri Peters, was not a strong ough singer after several test recording sessions, and all of her parts, both in the film and on the soundtrack album, were dubbed by session vocalist Grazina Frame. Frame had overdubbed female singing voices in Cliff Richard's earlier film The Young Ones.
Cliff Richard, Melvyn Hayes, and the Shadows were recalled to Elstree some weeks after completion of shooting to record Bachelor Boy, as the distributors felt the film was too short.
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A crowd of 3, 000 people turned up to Leicester Square and Cliff Richard was unable to exit his car due to the crowds, so did not attd the oping.
Summer Holiday was the second most popular movie at the British box office in 1963, after the James Bond feature From Russia with Love, with comedy film Tom Jones coming third.
The film's release helped Cliff Richard to be voted by exhibitors as the most popular star at the British box-office in the same year.
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The majority of the numbers integrated dance with song – not merely serving as sces to promote a number of hit-parade songs. Ross, an American choreographer later became a film director in his own right.
Many singles from Cliff Richard lifted from the film, including the title track Summer Holiday, as well as The Next Time, Bachelor Boy and The Shadows instrumtal Foot Tapper all reached Number one in the British charts during the first three months of 1963.
The film suggested to the photographer Daniel Meadows a way in which he might emulate Bjamin Stone and travel around and photograph Britain from 1973 to 1974.
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Summer Holiday was adapted into a stage musical in the mid-1990s, starring Darr Day in the role that Cliff Richard played. It premiered for a summer season at The Opera House in Blackpool in 1996, and th later toured nationally, before returning to Blackpool in 1998. The cast for these included Claire Buckfield, Isla Fisher, Faith Brown, Ross King, Peter Baldwin, and Ré Zagger. It was also recorded and released on video, titled Summer Holiday - The Hits, which was all the musical numbers strung together by clips of Darr Day writing postcards to his frids, and describing what was happing in the story as he wrote.
The stage musical differs in a number of respects from the film version. For example, the route to Aths is via Italy in the stage version rather than the original film route via Yugoslavia. The songs also differ, and include a number of songs from Cliff Richard's other early back catalogue, such as The Young Ones.
It was revived in 2003, starring Stefan Booth, but later starred Darr Day again. This production also included Day's future partner Suzanne Shaw (from the pop group Hear'say) as Bobby, and Aimi MacDonald as Bobby's mother. The production toured the UK. A further production in 2018 toured the UK with Ray Quinn in the Cliff Richard role and Bobby Crush as Jerry, the agt.
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A revival of the stage musical toured East Anglia in Summer 2022, featuring a professional cast of actor-musicians augmted by local dancers. The production toured the Suffolk and Norfolk coasts, starting in Southwold before heading to Sheringham and finishing in Great Yarmouth.
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