Holiday Camp (film)

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Holiday Camp
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ken Annakin
Produced by	Sydney Box
Written by	Peter Rogers
Starring	Jack Warner Kathleen Harrison Dennis Price
Distributed by	Gainsborough Pictures
Release dates	5 August 1947
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Holiday Camp is a 1947 British comedy drama film directed by Ken Annakin, starring Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Kathleen Harrison and Dennis Price.

Synopsis

It documents a post-war working-class London family's annual visit to a summer holiday camp. It was the first film to feature the Huggett family who would go on to star in the Huggetts Trilogy. It resonated with post-war audiences, and was very successful. The film is a kaleidoscope of various lives at play by the sea, in a Butlin's holiday camp. These include a pregnant young girl, a group of gamblers, and a murderer seeking his next victim.^[1]^[2]

Locations

The opening shot of a train arriving at the cliff-top station was filmed at Sandsend, a mile from Whitby, North Yorkshire. Camp exteriors were shot at Butlins, Filey, on the East Coast a few miles from Sandsend. Although Butlins had its own rail station, the view at Sandsend was considered more spectacular.

Critical reception

Time Out wrote "Time has mellowed the documentary quality of the film, and location shooting and authentic detail now seem less important than the presence of the whole range of British acting talent, from Dame Flora Robson to Cheerful Charlie Chester, among the cast of thousands."^[3]

Cast

Flora Robson as Esther Harman
Dennis Price as Hardwicke
Jack Warner as Joe Huggett
Hazel Court as Joan Martin
Emrys Jones as Michael Halliday
Kathleen Harrison as Mrs Huggett
Yvonne Owen as Angela Kirby
Esmond Knight as Camp Announcer
Jimmy Hanley as Jimmy Gardner
Peter Hammond as Harry Huggett
Esma Cannon as Elsie Dawson
John Blythe as Steve
Jeannette Tregarthen as Valerie Thompson
Beatrice Varley as Valerie's Aunt
Susan Shaw as Patsy Crawford
Pamela Bramah as Beauty Queen

and Patricia Roc, Cheerful Charlie Chester and Gerry Wilmot as themselves

References

↑ Holiday Camp, BritMovie.co.uk
↑ Holiday Camp, IMDb
↑ RMy, Holiday Camp, Time Out London

External links

Holiday Camp at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ken Annakin

It Began on the Clyde (1946)
Fenlands (1946)
Holiday Camp (1947)
Miranda (1948)
Broken Journey (1948)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Landfall (1949)
Double Confession (1950)
Hotel Sahara (1951)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)
The Planter's Wife (1952)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
The Seekers (1954)
Value for Money (1955)
Loser Takes All (1956)
Three Men in a Boat (1956)
Across the Bridge (1957)
Nor the Moon by Night (1958)
Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Very Important Person (1961)
The Hellions (1961)
The Fast Lady (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
The Informers (1963)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
The Long Duel (1967)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Paper Tiger (1975)
The Pirate (1978)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)
The Pirate Movie (1982)
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)

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