Holidays with Pay

Holidays with Pay is a 1948 British second feature ('B')[1] comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley and starring Frank Randle, Tessie O'Shea and Dan Young.

The Rogers family visit Blackpool for their annual holidays, and have difficulty finding rooms; but are befriended by a wealthy young man who takes them to stay in his haunted mansion.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The story, giving a cross-section of British life, has possibilities, but is far too long.

As at present shown, however, there is too much padding, and the story is stretched so that it seems nothing but a peg on which to hang a series of cross-talk acts indulged in on the slightest provocation by the three stars.

It's a great pity that his performances haven't been better preserved for posterity (we have only one sound recording of him working live in 1938).