HOLIDAY CAMP
(Rank-Gainsborough) KEN ANNAKIN, who directed Holiday Camp, gained his film experience in documentaries (London, 1942, Fenlands, etc.), and this no doubt explains the strong documentary flavour of this latest production-though it can’t altogether explain away the rather indigestible mixture of mild satire, whimsy, broad comedy, melodrama, romance, and unblushing sentimentality which the film offers. But Holiday Camp has its moments-most of them when Jack Warner is somewhere haridy-and as a piece of social reporting it is not without interest. Britain has (believe it or not) holiday camps just like this where the intellectually under-privileged may indulge their gregarious instincts. One can (and does) laugh heartily at the ubiquitous camp loudspeaker system, the meals-by-numbers, the’ mass P.T. and the whimsical little signs marked "Lads" or "Lassies." But, if I may coin a phrase, it makes you think.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 471, 2 July 1948, Page 25
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138HOLIDAY CAMP New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 471, 2 July 1948, Page 25
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