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Every Day's a Holiday is a Cliff Richard musical without the Bachelor Boy himself.

It even has Ron Moody and Richard O'Sullivan who appeared in some Cliff Richard musicals.

Freddie and the Dreamers play some crazy cooks, in essence they take on the role of the Shadows.

The story involves a group off teens taking a job at a holiday resort and take part in a talent competition that will be televised.

Gerry Pullman has fallen for a girl but find himself dealing with a rival. The story is flimsy and silly.

The film is a little too cheesy and a bit of its time period. There is mirror scene where Gerry riffs Frank Sinatra but the Al Jolson scene is unfortunate. The cinematography is by Nicolas Roeg which is a plus for the movie.

It also has too many songs and they are rather forgettable, unlike say the songs in Summer Holiday.

However it does have some interesting dance numbers from choreographer Gillian Lynne.

It's a rags to riches tale of 3 guys & 4 gals who meet while working at a holiday camp and end up entering and winning the annual talent contest. Everything moves along rather too quickly - the plot where Gerry (John Leyton) falls for the girl, loses the girl to Tim (Mike Sarne) and then is reunited with her happens in an instant and the fact that the group, The Lucky Seven, beats Freddie & the Dreamers in the contest is a bit too unbelievable and smacks of a touch of vote rigging. Still ... on the whole it is a very entertaining film.

The songs are a bit corny but feel-good - the best being the gorgeous Baker Twins' "Romeo Jones" and the title song (although some of the lyrics should have been revised as they don't quite fit in with the music). I would also have to say that the serenade by Tim to Christina ("Indubitably Me") is incredibly catchy.

I first saw this movie around the end of the 70s and have to admit that my sister and I used to watch it on tape at least once a day. I was gutted when someone taped over it but am happy to say I have a new copy.

The film was re released in the early 80s as 'The Adventures of Tim' which is not surprising as, although Sarne's Character isn't really supposed to be the main one, he is hilarious throughout and steals every scene he is in.

If you want a film to cheer you up on a wet Saturday morning - you could do a lot worse than this one.

I vividly recall my grandmother watching Freddie and the Dreamers cavorting about dressed as chefs on her new television and telling us all how much she liked him.

Seen today the biggest surprise the thing offers is the presence of Nicolas Roeg's name on the credits. Butlins at Clacton provides an attractive backdrop, the choreography by Gilliam Lynne is lively, but it's aggressive energy rapidly gets tiring and it seriously shows it's age when the hero sings to himself in blackface.

John Leyton signally fails to build on the profile he recently earned from 'The Great Escape while Mike Sarne is aptly dismissed as "White Fang, king of the woolpack" as the Honorable Timothy Gilpin. But Ron Moody and Michael Ripper make a surprisingly charming singing duo (we're expected to believe that Ripper was once a boy soprano), while Liz Fraser is always good to see.

Despite the hype at the time of its release, this musical offering was never particularly good and, if you are expecting to hear any classic sixties tracks, then go and buy a CD. For the most part the music consists of numbers which you would be disappointed to find on the 'B' side of a single. The dancing is similarly uninspired - the usual (for the time) jumping up and down and from side to side with arms outstretched, rather like a manic aerobics session. The love triangle and older versus younger generation plot is simplistic. The acting is variable with stalwarts such as Ron Moody, Liz Fraser and Michael Ripper there to balance the less able pop artistes. However, as a piece of sixties nostalgia,particularly with its holiday camp setting, the film is well worth a look and Freddie and the Dreamers are always value for money.

I like silly 1960's pop music films and I was looking forward to enjoying this one and giving it a well deserved ten but.....it was fairly bad so just worth a five.

No decent tunes and the dance sequences were far too long and were just a bit of padding. Jumping on the pop music film boom of the time which would have disappointed paying customers who would have expected it to be a good watch.

Bad acting from almost everyone and no redeeming features. I did discover that Nicolas Parsons was young once which came a surprise as I thought that he was born old.

The "high spirited teens" were obviously in their twenties and not teenagers. One unusual feature for a pop film of 1964 was that there was no smoking in any scene, or if there was I missed it.

Not worth watching not even for nostalgia.

John Leyton's father worked like a dog to keep him in school, but while waiting for his proposed career to begin, he's trying to break into show business as a singer. He applies to a holiday camp, and gets the job -- as a children's entertainer. Disappointed but game, he struggles, making friends with the other young people working there, hoping for a break.

It's one of those British musicals of the early 1960s with every sort of pop music from music hall to blackfaced performer, all the way up to the early stages of what would become acid rock, in a series of performances that take up almost half of the movie's 94 minutes. The staging of the musical numbers varies from straightforward to expansive in the hands of choreographer Gillian Lynne and DP Nicholas Roeg, and the cast includes Ron Moody as an Italian singing teacher, sort of, Liz Fraser as a good-hearted secretary, Nicholas Parsons, and Michael Ripper. I don't recall any of the songs making their way across the Atlantic, but the variety and competence of most of them made watching this one a pleasant experience.

This is a perfect example of how not to set a comedy in a holiday camp. Made by second string producers,Grand National Pictures,it was their penultimate film. This was one of a number of similar pop films that were produced at this time. The problem is that however many well known faces you populate the film with,if the material isnt any good the film wont work.

In fact using some performers,such as Freddie and The Dreamers,is a positive hinderance as they are so bad.

The comedy isnt funny,the songs and the singing is totally unmemorable and the dancing is cringe making. So this film is only for viewers who are nostalgic for this sort of film.

Other than the justly celebrated films of Cliff Richard and The Beatles, British pop musicals of the early 60s are not highly esteemed. They are generally seen as having been blatantly derivative at the time and hopelessly dated now. If "Summer Holiday" and "A Hard Day's Night" represent the very best of this somewhat narrow genre it is likely that "Every Day's A Holiday" would be considered - if at all - as one of the very minor also-rans. Having watched a recent repeat of this film, however, I found it highly entertaining. In essence it is a Cliff Richard film without Cliff, who is replaced, insofar as he can be, by John Leyton, a young actor-turned-pop star (and sometime Joe Meek protege). As in the Cliff films, the musical numbers are strung along a purposely lightweight romantic plotline, and both Ron Moody and Richard O'Sullivan are held over from the Cliff entourage. The cinematography, courtesy of a young Nic Roeg, makes this film a pleasure to watch, and the musical numbers, if undistinguished by the high standards of The Beatles and Cliff, are enjoyable. As in so many films of this period, the choreography - performed by an accomplished dance-troupe - betrays the unmistakable influence of "West Side Story". The likeable cast includes Mike Sarne, Grazina Frame, Liz Fraser, Nicholas Parsons, the late Michael Ripper and the late Hazel Hughes. Sarne (improbably but effectively cast as a young aristocrat-about-town, Tim) vies with the decently working-class Gerry (Leyton) for the attentions of the no less high-born Christina (Frame). Disappointingly for sociologically-minded film buffs there is only the most superficial investigation of the class issues inherent in the situation, but, of course, this is entirely as it should be in an escapist entertainment of this sort. (Indeed, in the naively optimistic mood of the mid-60s, class was starting to be perceived as not especially problematic, with an overall youth culture transcending such ancient barriers.) Unlike Gerry, who is hopelessly smitten, the vain and self-regarding (but strangely appealing) Tim casts his romantic net rather more widely, notably demonstrating - albeit with somewhat qualified success! - the "beatnik approach" to wooing. His dalliance with holiday camp manager Mr Close's (Charles Lloyd Pack) ripely sexy secretary Miss Slightly (Liz Fraser) prospers somewhat better, given her enthusiasm for sex (made evident early in the film), and her equally evident eventual inebriation. Indeed, in its rather innocent way, "Every Day's A Holiday" is pre-occupied with sex (as distinct from chaste romance) to a far greater degree than most of the youth films of the time; certainly far more than the Cliff films that it otherwise resembles. Most noteworthy among its various set pieces is a mind-bogglingly brilliant and surreal sequence featuring Freddie and the Dreamers as chefs. Nicholas Parsons plays a pretentious and overwrought TV director, first cousin, so to speak, to Victor Spinetti in "A Hard Day's Night", although from internal evidence (an allusion to Harold Macmillan during a bingo game), "Every Day's A Holiday" would seem to be the earlier of the two films. In addition to the "in-house" performers and Freddie and the Dreamers, there is a fleeting appearance by The Mojos. Despite the presence of these two bands, however, the ethos of the film is more Cliff/Shadows/Meek than Merseybeat. Highly recommended.

Yeah, it's bad, but in a fun way. Music is so-so, in that way of British Invasion wannabes who never were. One of the catchiest songs, "Romeo Jones," curiously is not on the soundtrack LP. Fun scenes include Liz Fraser getting drunk from spiked gravy, Mike Sarne being a near-stalker, Grazina Frame as rich girl trying to escape overbearing aunt, John Leyton super excited that he was offered a job as a waiter at a summer camp and fantasizing about being a pop idol. A few scenes stick out due to the absolute weirdness or continuity. When the Lynne dancers are dancing on the beach to "Every Day's A Holiday," they turn to run away from the camera, and one girl's zipper on the back of her tight, blue capris is unzipped. Freddie and the Dreamers had a ball with this, a few members told me so personally! I think a few ad libs were left in. If bad 60s movies about popsters trying to win talent contests are your thing, especially in a summer vacation camp that looks gloomy and chilly, are your guilty pleasure, give this a whirl.

Set in a holiday camp, a bunch of pop artists, are featured singing uninspiring B type songs, and demonstrating that none of them can act. Mike Sarne, one hit wonder, and John Leyton, who had a couple of big hits, try hard, but with a threadbare storyline and awful dialogue, the film degenerates into a lot of manic leaping around without rhyme or reason. Freddie and the Dreamers are embarrassingly bad, since all of them were 'wooden' in the acting department, and their attempts at humour were as funny as a Sunday wet afternoon! A few years after the film was released, most of the singers drifted into obscurity and frankly I'm not surprised.

This is cross between Hard Day's Night and Summer Holiday which does nothing to threaten the dominance of either in the British 60's rock 'n' romance genre. I'll let others explain the finer points of casting and score. What I find so fascinating about "Seaside Swingers" is the bewildered holiday camp extras who thought they were going to have an uneventful and typically overcast two weeks at one of Butlin's more drab properties and ended up unwitting props in a third rate musical comedy about some rather aged looked teenagers trying to make a splash in the prepubescent world of rock 'n' roll.

The holiday camp must be seen to be believed. Americans will find it unbelievable that people actually spent the only two weeks they got each year going to what amounted to an overcrowded compound where the only entertainment was guessing how far apart the family would have to sit from each other in the "canteen" or large feeding area (which features prominantly in this film). The chalets referred to by the campers were extremely small motel-style rooms which were your base of operations at the camp.

For a real soak in the British invasion style this is just the ticket but fast forward through the "Crazy Horse Saloon" number. It's atrocious.

This is not a great film and is badly dated. I gave it a 10 anyways based solely on seeing Jennifer and Susan Baker sing the song "Romeo Jones". I had not seen this film since the 60s yet this scene popped into my head recently as I recalled having a huge crush on these twin sisters when I was a kid. I had not thought of this in years and tracked down a copy of the film on eBay. The performance was as wonderful as I remembered and I still have a crush on these girls. They only were in a handful of films but they are completely adorable. I find it hard to believe that they were not in more films or offered a record contract. There is not much info on the web on the twins so I have no idea what paths their lives took after they quit making films. The rest of the cast is more than capable with John Leyton (the Great Escape), Ron Moody (Oliver) and Michael Ripper (Every Hammer film ever made), and do the best they can with a substandard script. There is a couple of bizarre performances by Freddie and the Dreamers and a busty Liz Fraser to liven things up, but the real attraction for me is the Baker Twins. Their performance so impressed me when I was 10 years old that it remained in my head for over 40 years. I am just glad that it worked it's way out of my subconscious mind so I could enjoy it all over again.

I know everyone has their own opinion about this film, but I absolutely love it, I'm 49 and I think we all need abit cheesiness in films, yes its simplistic and predictable but that was life back then at a Holiday Camps, when the smallest things made our children happy. The music I love, and if I need a film to cheer me up it's this one.

Judging this film after 55 years is unfair considering that this type of film would have been very popular back in the day, especially if you liked any of the singers/bands that appeared in it. Imagine the same film with Justin Timberlake, Boyzone or even the Supremes, and place it in its own time....all of the acts in the film had their own fans and followers and although it is not a masterpiece it was not meant to be, it's a simple film. If you are from this era you'll take it for what it is.

This frequently energetic, charmingly old-fashioned 60s musical lark is boisterously set within a colourfully, bustling seaside resort, making a suitably gaudy backdrop for a marvellous myriad of broad comedy vignettes, high-energy dance numbers, and positive, upbeat pop music, all enthusiastically performed by the scintillating, sparkling likes of John Leyton, Mike Sarne, Freddie & The Dreamers, Liz Fraser, and featuring another amusing turn from masterful Thespian Ron Moody as the kindly, but altogether duplicitous music teacher Professor Bastinado. Enjoyed as a deliciously frothy example of consistently wholesome, intermittently finger poppin' nostalgia, the effortless effervescence of 'Ever Day's a Holiday' remains joyously undiminished, and still makes for a jaunty momentary escape from the humdrum reality of increasingly shrill 24/7 news media, and the small screen hegemony of unrelentingly egregious fast food delivery adverts! James Hill's playful film's many highlights include a spicy rendition of 'What's Cooking?' by an amusingly animated Freddie & The Dreamers which is a most flavoursomely satisfying treat, as is a delightful 'Cor! Blimey!' comedy number from Hammer icon Michael ripper and partner in song Ron Moody, while it's all a bit of silly-headed nonsense, but sometimes silly-headed nonsense is an entirely welcome distraction! And it must also be said that said film also benefits greatly from the blissfully perky presence of the undeniably delicious-looking, blondely bomb-shelling Baker twins whose handsome looks belie a profound lack of musicality!

A feather-light musical comedy involving a group of college kids who enter a talent contest at a summer resort. Grazina Frame sings a catchy song called "1st time bitten, 2nd time shy," the Baker twins sing a fluffy piece of nonsense called "Romeo Jones," and Freddie & The Dreamers make an appearance singing "Don't do that to me." Anyone who enjoyed sitting through the likes of "Having a wild weekend" and "Ferry cross the mersey" should enjoy this one as well.

So what teen musical from the sixties is gonna ended up in the top ten? This is better than most and certainly holds its own against any of the Frankie and Annette beach movies - and with a lot less of the silliness. I'm sure John Leyton had the girls dreamy-eyed. Mike Sarne is funny. Grazing Frame is fabulous and deserved more co-starring parts instead of dubbing for other actresses. The Baker Twins are just gorgeous. Ron Moody, as always, adds some welcomed humor to the film, and everyone else does a fabulous job! No, the storyline is "Gone With the Wind," but there's a lot of fun to be had with Grazina dodging her aunt (mother? I can't remember) at the summer camp - and the music! Freddie and the Dreamers do a great bit in the kitchen, and Freddie proves himself to be an accomplished actor. The highlights of the film for me? Grazina Frame's "Second Time Shy" and the Baker Twins' "Romeo Jones." And the title track is a hit, in my opinion. Ignore the naysayers. If you like the rock 'n roll, light hearted films of the 1960s, don't pass this one up!