Every Day's a Holiday

Released two years before he achieved international success with Born Free, this was director James Hill's attempt to take the Swinging Sixties to the seaside. Sadly, this talent-show farrago is often laughably bad. John Leyton is the nominal star, although the musical headliners are Freddie and the Dreamers, who were desperately trying to match the movie achievements of the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. However, no film with cinematography by Nicolas Roeg can be dismissed out of hand, and Ron Moody and Liz Fraser provide accomplished comic support.