Holiday Camp (film)

Holiday Camp
Directed by	Ken Annakin
Produced by	Sydney Box
Written by	Peter Rogers
Starring	Jack Warner Kathleen Harrison Dennis Price
Distributed by	Gainsborough Pictures
Release date(s)	5 August 1947
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Holiday Camp is a 1947 British comedy drama film directed by Ken Annakin, starring Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Kathleen Harrison and Dennis Price.

Synopsis

This section requires expansion. (March 2010)

It documents a post-war working-class London family's annual visit to a summer holiday camp. It was the first film to feature the Huggett family who would go on to star in the Huggetts Trilogy. It resonated with post-war audiences, and was very successful.

↑Jump back a section

Cast

Flora Robson as Esther Harman
Dennis Price as Hardwicke
Jack Warner as Joe Huggett
Hazel Court as Joan Martin
Emrys Jones as Michael Halliday
Kathleen Harrison as Mrs Huggett
Yvonne Owen as Angela Kirby
Esmond Knight as Camp Announcer
Jimmy Hanley as Jimmy Gardner
Peter Hammond as Harry Huggett
Esma Cannon as Elsie Dawson
John Blythe as Steve
Jeannette Tregarthen as Valerie Thompson
Beatrice Varley as Valerie's Aunt
Susan Shaw as Patsy Crawford
Pamela Bramah as Beauty Queen

and Patricia Roc, Cheerful Charlie Chester and Gerry Wilmot as themselves

↑Jump back a section

References

↑Jump back a section

External links

Holiday Camp at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Films directed by Ken Annakin

1940s	It Began on the Clyde (1946) Fenlands (1946) Holiday Camp (1947) Miranda (1948) Broken Journey (1948) Here Come the Huggetts (1948) Vote for Huggett (1949) The Huggetts Abroad (1949) Landfall (1949)

1950s	Double Confession (1950) Hotel Sahara (1951) The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) The Planter's Wife (1952) The Sword and the Rose (1953) You Know What Sailors Are (1954) The Seekers (1954) Value for Money (1955) Loser Takes All (1956) Three Men in a Boat (1956) Across the Bridge (1957) Nor the Moon by Night (1958) Third Man on the Mountain (1959)

1960s	Swiss Family Robinson (1960) Very Important Person (1961) The Hellions (1961) The Fast Lady (1962) The Longest Day (1962) Crooks Anonymous (1962) The Informers (1963) Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) Battle of the Bulge (1965) The Long Duel (1967) The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) Monte Carlo or Bust (1969)

1970s	The Call of the Wild (1972) Paper Tiger (1975) The Pirate (1978) The Fifth Musketeer (1979)

1980s	Cheaper to Keep Her (1981) The Pirate Movie (1982) The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)

This article related to a British film of the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

↑Jump back a section

Last modified on 24 February 2013, at 22:49