Holiday on the Buses (1973) on Netflix
After a string of bus crashes, Stan Butler and Jack Harper lose their jobs. They take work as a bus crew at a holiday camp, where Inspector Blake is the security man.
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Plot summary
Stan Butler's careless driving at the Town & District bus depot causes a series of crashes that cost him, his conductor Jack Harper and Inspector Blake their jobs. Out of work, Stan and Jack answer an advertisement for a bus crew and are hired at a holiday camp in Prestatyn, North Wales. They discover that Blakey has taken a post there as the camp's security inspector. Stan invites his family to stay using his staff discount. His brother-in-law Arthur Rudge refuses to pay train fares and drives everyone in his motorcycle and sidecar; on the journey, most of their luggage is lost in a river.
Cast
- Adam Rhodesas Little Arthur
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Holiday on the Buses (1973)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film one star out of five, calling it one of the worst films you'll ever see and saying its only achievement is the sheer amount of smutty sniggering it manages to cram into 85 minutes.
- Hugh Leonard, writing in the Sunday Independent, gave the film zero stars out of four, commenting that this one should be buried in unhallowed ground.
- The film marked the final appearances of Reg Varney and Michael Robbins in the On the Buses franchise, the actors having already left the TV series in its final season, which aired the same year as the film's release.
- The open top bus in the film was XFM 229, a Bristol LD new to Crosville Motor Services, which was scrapped in 1982.
- It was filmed on location at The Pontin's Holiday Camp in Prestatyn, North Wales, with interiors completed at EMI-MGM Elstree Studios in Borehamwood.
