Summer Holiday (1963 film)

Summer Holiday
UK theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Yates
Written byPeter Myers
Ronald Cass
Produced byKenneth Harper
StarringCliff Richard
Lauri Peters
David Kossoff
Ron Moody
The Shadows
CinematographyJohn Wilcox
Edited byJack Slade
Music byStanley Black
Peter Myers
Ronald Cass
Production
company
Distributed byWarner-Pathé (UK)
AIP (US)
Release dates
  • 10 January 1963 (1963-01-10) (World Premiere, London)
  • 18 February 1963 (1963-02-18) (UK)
  • 12 March 1964 (1964-03-12) (US)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Summer Holiday is a 1963 British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film starring singer Cliff Richard.[1] The film was directed by Peter Yates (his directorial debut), produced by Kenneth Harper. The original screenplay was written 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 Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, Pamela Hart, Jacqueline Daryl, Madge Ryan, Lionel Murton, Christine Lawson, Wendy Barry and Nicholas Phipps.[1]

Herbert Ross choreographed the musical numbers.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b "Summer Holiday (1963)". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Summer Holiday (1963) - Peter Yates | Cast and Crew | AllMovie".
  3. ^ SUMMER HOLIDAY Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 30, Iss. 348, (1 January 1963): 19.

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