Cinerama Holiday is a 1955 film shot in Cinerama. Structured as a criss-cross travel documentary, it shows an American couple (John and Betty Marsh) traveling in Europe and a Swiss couple (Fred Troller and Beatrice Troller)[3] traveling in the United States. Like all of the original Cinerama productions, the emphasis is on spectacle and scenery. The European sequences include a point-of-view bobsled ride, while the U.S. sequences include a point-of-view landing on an aircraft carrier.

Cinerama Holiday
Directed byRobert L. Bendick
Philippe De Lacy
StarringFred Troller
Beatrice Troller
John Marsh
Betty Marsh
CinematographyJoseph C. Brun
Harry Squire
Edited byJack McCay
Fredrick Y. Smith
Les Zackling
Music byMorton Gould with additional music by Jack Shaindlin and Nathan Van Cleave
Distributed byCinerama Releasing Corporation
Release date
  • February 8, 1955 (1955-02-08)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.5 million[1]
Box office$29.6 million [2]

Places

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Places visited include Davos, Paris, New Orleans & an early Las Vegas.

Reception

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The film earned $10 million in domestic rentals[4] (equivalent to $113,739,130 in 2023) and became the highest-grossing film of 1955 in the United States, surpassing other motion pictures such as Mister Roberts, Battle Cry and Oklahoma!.

Largely unseen for decades, the film was released on Blu-ray in 2013, restored and remastered from the original camera negatives.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Scoring, Editing 'Cinerama Holiday'". Variety. 23 June 1954. p. 7.
  2. ^ Klady, Leonard (March 27, 1995). "Realistic Grosses". Variety. p. 10.
  3. ^ "Cinerama Holiday (1955) - IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved March 14, 2024. Cinerama Holiday (1955) - IMDb
  4. ^ Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  5. ^ Cinerama: Holiday Blu-ray

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