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Holidays with Pay
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Wikipedia article
'Holidays with Pay' is a 1948 British comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley and starring Frank Randle, Tessie O'Shea and Dan Young.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090117125910/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/62674 BFI.org] The film follows the Rogers family as they go on holiday to Blackpool and enjoy a series of adventures.
Plot
The Rogers family visit Blackpool for their annual holidays, and have difficulty finding rooms; but are befriended by a wealthy young man who takes them to stay in his haunted mansion. The family become entangled in a plot by the young man's grasping cousin to murder him for the family inheritance. However, all ends happily with the young man marrying the Rogers eldest daughter, Pamela.
Cast
* Frank Randle - Jack Rogers
* Tessie O'Shea - Pansy Rogers
* Dan Young - Phil Rogers
* Josef Locke - Himself
* Sally Barnes - Pamela Rogers
* Sonny Burke - Michael Sandford
* Bert Tracy - Ephraim Rogers
* Joyanne Bracewell - Joyanne Rogers
Critical reception
'The Spinning Image' wrote: "The film as a whole is more cheap than cheerful. What makes it worthwhile is seeing the energy of Randle when he is allowed free-rein. He must have been able to work a theatre audience brilliantly by the flash of an eye or a knowing grin. It's a great pity that his performances haven't been better preserved for posterity (we have only one sound recording of him working live in 1938)."
Bibliography
* Murphy, Robert. 'Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-49'. Routledge, 1989.
References
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