Wonderful Life (U.S.: Swingers' Paradise)[2] is a 1964 British film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Cliff Richard, Walter Slezak, Susan Hampshire and The Shadows.

Through a pyrotechnics accident, the power on the ferry cuts off and the group are fired on the spot, stranded on a tiny boat with nothing but their instruments.

Jonnie spots a figure on an out-of-control camel and rushes to save her, but discovers that he had accidentally ruined a scene being filmed for a movie.

Later that evening, Jonnie spots a blonde woman sitting at his opposite table reading from a script.

Jonnie's band realise they could cheer everyone up by making the movie a musical, disguising their spare camera behind various objects.

The humour ... is depressingly unfunny; and the musical numbers, with choreography patterned some way after West Side Story, are robbed of most of their effect by the fact that they are danced by non-dancing principals, while the real dancers are kept as a background chorus.

On the credit side, however, are a genial performance by Walter Slezak, the likeable Cliff Richard, a lively twist number on the beach involving the entire film unit, and especially a lengthy 'potted history of the movies' ... Like Summer Holiday, in fact, Wonderful Life has more good intentions than accomplishments, but it is kept going by Sidney Furie's amiable, unpretentious drive"[5] According to Kine Weekly, it was among the ten most popular films of the year at the British box office in 1964.