Product Description DVD Special Features: The Young Ones Theatrical Trailer Feature length commentary with director Sidney Furie Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audio: MonoSummer Holiday Theatrical Trailer Feature length commentary with Director Peter Yates Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audio: MonoWonderful Life Theatrical Trailer Feature length commentary with Director Sidney Furie Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audio: Mono From .co.uk The three nostalgic British musicals in the Cliff Richard DVD Collection are a good reminder that, thanks to a few short years in the 1960s, Sir Cliff can legitimately include "film star" on his already exceptional show business CV. The Young Ones (1961), Summer Holiday (1963) and Wonderful Life (1964) would make tame fare for a teen audience today, but they retain a polished and honest charm which might surprise the sharpest of cynics. First and foremost, of course, they were Cliff Richard vehicles: designed to showcase his all-round talents and capitalise on his first, heady wave of pop chart success. They are also unashamed homages to the heyday of the MGM B-musical with familiar themes: let's put on a show/save the youth club/make a film. But with up-and-coming directors Sidney Furie and Peter Yates making imaginative and sophisticated use of wide-angle camera work and fresh, snappy choreography by Herbert Ross and Gillian Lynne, they also have plenty of assets other than Cliff's wholesome appeal. There are some fine set pieces and surreal flashes, notably the history of cinema in Wonderful Life and the extraordinary mime sequence in Summer Holiday. They also tap into the very British energy of a group of young actors and dancers including Una Stubbs, Susan Hampshire, Melvyn Hayes and Richard O'Sullivan, as well as Cliff's band at the time, The Shadows. For sheer verve, they deserve to be seen on their own merits. On the DVD: The Cliff Richard DVD Collection has been pristinely restored; the colours and clarity, not to mention the use of Cinemascope, leap off the screen (aspect ratio 2.35:1). The mono soundtrack recreates the authentic bandbox sound of the 1960s. Aside from theatrical trailers, the most notable extras are directors' commentaries: actually Furie and Yates in occasionally long-winded conversation with film and music writers. Both men give fascinating insight into the film-making climate in Britain in the early 1960s.--Piers Ford
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Big red bus!
I bought this dvd for my four year old grandson, he absolutely loves it, he plays it over and over again, he loves the songs and dances to them, but most of all he loves the big red bus!
N**N
Omg fabulous
Tk me right back to when I was on my teens watching it
V**.
Good value
Not for me, but my mum and my auntie love it.Good gift for a mother or other female relation who was born in the early 1950's.
M**H
Happy, uncomplicated times.
A very nice collection, simple, nostalgic entertainment - just what one needs in these troubled times!
C**Y
Great films
If you love cliff, you'll love this film collction
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Memories
I remember watching these in my younger years and loving them….They are hammy and corny, but of a different era, with the music and the visuals its with the watch and the money for all three
A**N
1 disc worked the other doesnt.
we mainly wanted the young ones and wonderful life, thats the only reason it gets 3 star, tried the summer holiday disc twice on dvd player once on ps4 and it said corrupted data.
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The Cliff Richard (The Young Ones / Summer Holiday / Wonderful Life)
I watched a couple of these when they first came out and then enjoyed them, I always liked the idea of a bus driving round Europe and in those days Europe was not really the average English holiday destination, so it was a taste of nostalgia to watch these againI imagine unless you are a huge Cliff fan or enjoy the notalgia of an age before things radically changed and at least gave the, no doubt false, impression of an age of innocence, then this isn't for you. Me I enjoyed it
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