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Holidays with Pay is a 1948 British comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley and starring Frank Randle, Tessie O'Shea and Dan Young.[1] The film follows the Rogers family as they go on holiday to Blackpool and enjoy a series of adventures.

Holidays with Pay
Directed by	John E. Blakeley
Written by	Frank Randle John E. Blakeley Mavis Compston Harry Jackson
Produced by	John E. Blakeley
Starring	Frank Randle Tessie O'Shea Dan Young Josef Locke
Cinematography	Ben R. Hart
Edited by	Dorothy Stimson
Music by	Albert W. Stanbury
Production company	Mancunian Films
Distributed by	Butcher's Film Service
Release date	1948
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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)."[2]

Bibliography

• Murphy, Robert. Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-49. Routledge, 1989.

References

External links

• Holidays with Pay at IMDb

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