Oy. What a disappointment. So sickeningly sweet, I had my blood sugar checked for diabetes afterwards. Makes Elvis’s Fun in Acapulco look like Citizen Kane. Could only have been redeemed if their holiday bus’s brakes had failed, sending this lot of saps flying off a cliff.
So sunny and light, it could make dark gothic horrors sound healthy and balancing, careful about showing it to your children!
Cracking my copy in half felt like I was helping rid the world of a dangerous menace.
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This version of the Summer Holiday film soundtrack was released to mark the 40th anniversary and includes all the original 16 tracks digitally remastered along with 10 bonus tracks made up of film versions and alternate takes. The booklet contains behind the scenes information, photos, recording data and related discography (this review refers to the CD Special Version)
First of all, it’s worth it for the packaging alone!! It comes in a 7″ X 7″ sleeve, just like a 45 RPM E.P. (but YES, it’s a CD!) Everything – the cover and the gatefold sleeve, and booklet, and poster, and lobby cards are extremely colorful!! I’m not even a big Cliff fan (more of a Shadows fan) The best tracks are Cliff’s Summer Holiday, Bachelor Boy, A Swingin’ Affair, and the gorgeous Next Time; also The Shadows’ Les Girls and Foot Tapper. The bonus tracks are all very worthwhile, and
I’ve just ordered the DVD! Can hardly wait to see it! Grab this GREAT 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Soundtrack of “Summer Holiday” while you still can (hey, it’s a bargain on Amazon Marketplace!)…then check out the film – it’s supposed to be a great little pop music film!! Cliff and The Shadows at their greatest!!!
There are, to my knowledge, two musical adaptations of Eugene O’Neill’s play Ah Wilderness! Summer Holiday, the M-G-M musical is the first; the Broadway show Take Me Along is the second. Both have their charms; both have wonderful casts. Take Me Along starred Jackie Gleason as Uncle Sid, Walter Pidgeon as Richard’s father, and Robert Morse as Richard. Summer Holiday stars Mickey Rooney as Richard, with Walter Huston as his father, Frank Morgan as his imbibing Uncle Sid, Agnes Moorehead as his aunt, and Gloria DeHaven as Richard’s girlfriend Harriet. Music and lyrics for Take Me Along are by Bob (Carnival, Funny Girl) Merrill. Merrill also did music and lyrics for a stage musical adaptation of O’Neill’s Anna Christie, New Girl in Town, starring Gwen Verdon. But it is Harry Warren who wrote the music for the film Summer Holiday and Ralph Blane who wrote the lyrics. Each of these adaptations of Ah Wilderness! has a song that everyone was singing at the time, and some even today. For Take Me Along, Merrill wrote the catchy title song (“Take me along,if ya love-a me”), and for Summer Holiday, Warren and Blane gave us “The Stanley Steamer”.
Warren’s and Blane’s score for Summer Holiday provides several catchy tunes, though only “Stanley Steamer” has become a standard. The songs grow charmingly and appropriately out of the plot. The characters are mostly well-etched. Just as there are only slight traces of the darker side of O’Neill in Ah Wilderness!, so there are even fewer traces in Summer Holiday, but, hey, it’s an M-G-M musical! Still, most of the themes and characters from O’Neill are there: the “revolutionary” teen who reads Omar Kayam, the saloon gal who tries to seduce and roll him, the sweet girlfriend whose controlling father tries to keep her away from Richard, and, of course, Uncle Sid, who represents O’Neill’s fixation on substance abuse. My one quibble with the script is Agnes Moorehead’s dialogue and direction as Richard’s aunt, who love Sid but holds out on saying yes to him until he sobers up. Moorehead has given us a series of powerful, complex performances, particularly in Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons. Granted it would have tilted the balance of Summer Holiday too much in the direction of O’Neill seriousness to have made her character too close to that of the origial Ah Wilderness!; however, I found myself somewhat cheated by not getting the full benefit of Agnes Moorehead’s capabilities. But that, as I said, is a quibble. The musical as a whole moves tunefully and deligtfully along and is over before I want it to be.
This is one of the most gorgeous technicolor films ever. Director Rouben Mamoulian is second only to Vincente Minnelli when it comes to having an eye for color design. This film is a musical remake of
Eugene O’Neil’s play “Ah, Wilderness!” The cast is first rate–Walter Huston, Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan (a delight as always), Agnes Moorehead, and the lovely Gloria DeHaven, who is a
fine singer. The songs by Harry Warren and Ralph Blane aren’t what
you could call tunes you’ll sing after viewing the film; they help
advance the story in a way similiar to Meet Me in St. Louis. This
movie was filmed in 1946 but not released until 1948 when Rooney’s MGM contract came to its end. A simple turn of the century family story–high school graduation, Fourth of July
celebration (a beautiful sequence), first love (and first taste
of alcohol) and paternal wisdom. The section with Rooney and
Marilyn Miller as a bar floozy whose look grows more lascivious
as he has his first drink is a triumph of color cinematography
design. If you love technicolor this is a must-see film.
This movie is a sad piece of cinema. I found it difficult to watch. The only reason I gave it two stars is the cast, but they can’t save this film. The storyline is so then. They also seem to be taking bits from other musicals that were popular and meshing them all in to one. Also, Mickey Rooney is playing a 17 year old lovestruck high school graduate again! This entire film is unbelievable. There isn’t a single song that catches the ear. Oh well, I guess this is one musical MGM got wrong.
I really liked this musical. I admit it don’t have much of a story line but it was throughly enjoyable. Especially Mickey Rooney…this was one of the very last movies he made for MGM. I guess the best part about this movie is waiting to see if his girlfriend Murial will ever kiss him. Of course I’m writing this review based on the fact that I’m very partial to Mickey Rooney. I don’t think there is an actor a ever liked better. This movie is cute. My favorite song is The Stanley Steemer. Cute flick and if you are a Mickey Rooney fan you should see this one.
Most people dont have VHS anymore! We cant watch this movie on out Plasma tvs. Please re-master it on DVD so we too can enjoy it !!!
I was very satisfied with all aspeects of this order.The quality of the movie is excellent,as was the speed of receiving the dvd.I never thought I would ever be able to get a copy of a movie I had watched in 1963.
this movie was good fun with lots of crazy antics and good fun music, a bunch of youths in a london bus, adventures,romance,language problems and much more. If you like Cliff Richard or are simply a fan of music and laughs,this is the movie to see.
Not so well know in the USA – this is a great musical for a rainy day!
Saw this movie in England never thought i would find a copy of it i’am thrilled to see it on DVD it’s great Movie.
Oy. What a disappointment. So sickeningly sweet, I had my blood sugar checked for diabetes afterwards. Makes Elvis’s Fun in Acapulco look like Citizen Kane. Could only have been redeemed if their holiday bus’s brakes had failed, sending this lot of saps flying off a cliff.
So sunny and light, it could make dark gothic horrors sound healthy and balancing, careful about showing it to your children!
Cracking my copy in half felt like I was helping rid the world of a dangerous menace.
I was really pleased with the quality of the DVD. The actual movies brought back a lot of good memories.
Looking at all the other reviews, I’m certainly in the minority when I say this collection of Cliff Richard movies doesn’t hold up well today. The very essence of a good musical is good songs and I mean GOOD, MEMORABLE and ICONIC songs! In this case it was the title songs themselves, these were the big hits not to mention the big hit instrumentals from THE SHADOWS. Unfortunately, the movies were designed to highlight Cliff and not the greatest guitar group of them all. Now thats purely subjective on my part, but looking at THE YOUNG ONES, SUMMER HOLIDAY and WONDERFUL LIFE on a cinematic basis, they are as the main reviewer points out, just British versions of old MGM B-musicals. And when the Beatles came along in 1964 with A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, that old wornout musical formula was totally blown away.
At the time when I was a kid, I actually went to see all three movies at the ABC cinema in my London neighborhood. ABC even produced them at their own studio. They were BIG hits and Cliff Richard was the biggest singer on the British pop charts. But all that was before pop groups REALLY started to take off both in Britain and the US. Unlike Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, Cliff’s acting skills and charisma were not so electrifying. However again, if you’re a long time dedicated Cliff Richard fan, anything he does is great. For me, THE SHADOWS should have been in the spotlight more!
Looking back at the time in which they were made in the early 1960′s, they were all-so innocent and naive to what was going on in the REAL world. The Cuban missile crisis, the Profumo sex scandal that brought down the British government, the JFK assasination and so on. What a contrast, but then movies are mostly made to be escapist entertainment. With that in mind, this collection is a good value moneywise at least. And like a lot of things that seemed so good when you were young, well you know what I mean…
Well, I’m no longer one of the “Young Ones”, but I was when the movie “Wonderful To Be Young” played in Cincinnati. I liked the movie, and loved the music. I played the record until it could no longer be played. I liked “The Young Ones” the best, followed by “Summer Holiday”, and then “Wonderful Life” but would not give up any of them. My daughter came to me when she was a teenager wanting me to see this new singer that was on TV by the name of Cliff Richard, she really liked him. I showed her the record cover, and told her that he was as good then as he was when I was a teenager.
As a teenager in the Philippines, I saw the movies when they were first released, and Cliff Richard was the singing idol then. Getting hold of them through Amazon thrills me to pieces. This may not qualify as a review because I’m totally biased. I simply say that this DVD set is absolutely delightful. I’ll never get tired of watching Cliff.
In my teens, I missed watching The Young Ones and Summer Holiday because I was an Honor Student and refrain from watching too much movies, so now that I have been given the opportunity to have this collection, I appreciate it so much. I brought it to my sisters’ house and watched all three movies on their big screen and everybody enjoyed them. The songs, the dances, the story line. Cliff may not be an actor worth receiving awards for his acting, but I think he is a natural. He just acts like normal teenagers would in his time, and his singing is superb and his dancing doesn’t get behind all those dancers that were with him in the films. I wish I could get hold of ‘Finders Keepers’ too.