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Holiday's End
Directed byJohn Paddy Carstairs
Written byGerald Elliott
Produced byAnthony Havelock-Allan
StarringWally Patch
Rosalyn Boulter
Henry Victor
CinematographyDesmond Dickinson
Production
company
Distributed byParamount British
Release date
March 1937
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Holiday's End is a 1937 British mystery film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Sally Stewart, Rosalyn Boulter and Wally Patch.[1] The film follows the arrival at boarding school of a boy king.[2]

It was made at Pinewood Studios as a quota quickie.[3]

Plot

When the boy monarch of an East European state arrives at an English boarding school, a science master is found murdered. Suspicion falls on everyone, until the killer is exposed as a revolutionary, attempting to depose the young king.

Cast

References

Bibliography

  • Chibnall, Steve. Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute, 2007.
  • Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.