Wonderful Life (1964 film)

For other uses of the title, see Wonderful Life (disambiguation).

Wonderful Life

Directed by	Sidney J. Furie
Produced by	Kenneth Harper
Written by	Peter Myers and Ronald Cass
Starring	Cliff Richard Walter Slezak Susan Hampshire
Music by	Stanley Black
Cinematography	Kenneth Higgins
Edited by	Jack Slade
Production company	Associated British Picture Corporation Elstree Distributors Ivy Productions
Distributed by	Warner-Pathé (UK) American International Pictures (US)
Release dates	2 July 1964 (World Premiere, London)
Running time	113 minutes (UK)^[1] 83 minutes (US)^[2]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Wonderful Life (US: Swingers' Paradise)^[2] is a 1964 British film made as a vehicle for pop star Cliff Richard and is the third in a series of film musicals that included The Young Ones and Summer Holiday.

Written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass, directed by Sidney J. Furie, choreographed by Gillian Lynne, it also stars Susan Hampshire, Una Stubbs, Melvyn Hayes, Richard O'Sullivan, Gerald Harper and The Shadows. The movie was filmed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria city in Spain, and the "desert" scenes shot on Maspalomas sand dunes on Gran Canaria island, Canary Islands.

Film synopsis

The film features a history of the cinema with Cliff Richard doing impressions of Al Jolson, Groucho Marx, and Sean Connery in Dr. No. Richard O' Sullivan impersonates Charlie Chaplin, and Susan Hampshire plays Marlene Dietrich and Ursula Andress.

Film soundtrack

A soundtrack album was released in 1964 credited to Cliff Richard with The Shadows, all the music was produced by Stanley Black

Production

The film was shot in Techniscope, a widescreen filming method which used standard 35mm film on which a two frames of picture occupied each frame of film.

References

↑ John Walker (ed.) Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000, London: Harper Collins, 1999, p.922
1 2 Overview for Swingers' Paradise (1965)", Turner Classic Movies page

External links

Wonderful Life at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Sidney J. Furie

A Dangerous Age (1958)
A Cool Sound from Hell (1959)
Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
The Snake Woman (1961)
Three on a Spree (1961)
During One Night (1961)
The Young Ones (1961)
The Boys (1962)
The Leather Boys (1964)
Wonderful Life (1964)
The Ipcress File (1965)
The Appaloosa (1966)
The Naked Runner (1967)
The Lawyer (1970)
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Hit! (1973)
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)
Gable and Lombard (1976)
The Boys in Company C (1978)
The Entity (1981)
Purple Hearts (1984)
Iron Eagle (1986)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Iron Eagle II (1988)
The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991)
Ladybugs (1992)
Iron Eagle on the Attack (1995)
Hollow Point (1996)
Top of the World (1997)
The Rage (1997)
Married to a Stranger (1997)
In Her Defense (1998)
My 5 Wives (2000)
Cord (2001)
Under Heavy Fire (2001)
The Fraternity (2002)
Global Heresy (2002)
Partners in Action (2002)
Detention (2003)
Direct Action (2004)
American Soldiers (2005)
The Veteran (2006)
The Dependables (2014)

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