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Holiday's End
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Wikipedia article
'Holiday's End' is a 1937 British mystery film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Sally Stewart, Rosalyn Boulter and Wally Patch.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114065647/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/234711 BFI.org] The film follows the arrival at boarding school of a boy king.
It was made at Pinewood Studios as a quota quickie.Chibnall p.294
Plot
When the boy monarch of an East European state arrives at an English boarding school, a science master is found murdered. Suspicion falls on everyone, until the killer is exposed as a revolutionary, attempting to depose the young king.
Cast
* Wally Patch as Sergeant Yerbury
* Sally Stewart as Betty Sulgrave
* Kenneth Buckley as Arthur Marsh
* Rosalyn Boulter as Joyce Deane
* Aubrey Mallalieu as Bellamy
* Leslie Bradley as Peter Hurst
* Beckett Bould as Philpotts
* Robert Field as Des Voeux
* Henry Victor as Major Zwanenberg
* Denis Cowles as Superintendent of Police
* Bruce Moir as Perks
References
Bibliography
* Chibnall, Steve. 'Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film'. British Film Institute, 2007.
* Low, Rachael. 'Filmmaking in 1930s Britain'. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
* Wood, Linda. 'British Films, 1927-1939'. British Film Institute, 1986.
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