Cinerama Holiday Explained

Cinerama Holiday
Director:Robert L. Bendick
Philippe De Lacy
Starring:Fred Troller
Beatrice Troller
John Marsh
Betty Marsh
Music:Morton Gould with additional music by Jack Shaindlin and Nathan Van Cleave
Cinematography:Joseph C. Brun
Harry Squire
Editing:Jack McCay
Fredrick Y. Smith
Les Zackling
Distributor:Cinerama Releasing Corporation
Runtime:119 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English
Budget:$1.5 million[1]
Gross:$29.6 million [2]

Cinerama Holiday is a 1955 film shot in Cinerama. Structured as a criss-cross travel documentary, it shows an American couple (John and Betty Marsh) traveling in Europe and a Swiss couple (Fred Troller and Beatrice Troller)[3] traveling in the United States. Like all of the original Cinerama productions, the emphasis is on spectacle and scenery. The European sequences include a point-of-view bobsled ride, while the U.S. sequences include a point-of-view landing on an aircraft carrier.

Places

Places visited include Davos, Paris, New Orleans & an early Las Vegas.

Reception

The film earned $10 million in domestic rentals[4] and became the highest-grossing film of 1955 in the United States, surpassing other motion pictures such as Mister Roberts, Battle Cry and Oklahoma!.

Largely unseen for decades, the film was released on Blu-ray in 2013, restored and remastered from the original camera negatives.[5]

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Variety. Scoring, Editing 'Cinerama Holiday'. 23 June 1954. 7.
  2. Variety. Realistic Grosses. March 27, 1995. 10. Leonard. Klady.
  3. Web site: Cinerama Holiday (1955) - IMDb . IMDb . March 14, 2024 . Cinerama Holiday (1955) - IMDb.
  4. Book: Finler, Joel Waldo . 2003 . The Hollywood Story . Wallflower Press . 978-1-903364-66-6 . 358–359.
  5. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Cinerama-Holiday-Blu-ray/82410/ Cinerama: Holiday Blu-ray