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Summer Holiday is a British musical released in February 1963, featuring singer Cliff Richard. 
The musical was directed by Peter Yates (his debut) and was produced by Kenneth Harper for the 
Associated British Studios at Elstree. 
The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass 
(who also wrote most of the song numbers and lyrics). 
The cast included Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, Pamela Hart 
Jacqueline Daryl, Lionel Murton, Madge Ryan, David Kossoff, Nicholas Phipps, Ron Moody and The Shadows. 
Herbert Ross choreographed the musical numbers.


The story concerns Don (Cliff Richard) and his friends (Hayes, Green and Bulloch) who are bus mechanics 
at the huge London Transport bus overhaul works in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. 
During a miserably wet British summer lunch break, Don arrives, having persuaded London Transport 
to lend him and his friends an AEC Regent "RT" double-decker bus (and not a later Routemaster as often quoted).
This they convert into a holiday caravan, which they drive across continental Europe
intending to reach the South of France. 
However, their eventual destination is Athens. On the way, they are joined by a girl trio 
(Stubbs, Hart and Daryl) and a runaway singer (Lauri Peters), pursued by her mother (Ryan) and agent (Murton). 
The movie was a huge box-office hit, thus repeating the success of Cliff Richard's earlier film 
The Young Ones (1961).

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