STRANGE HOLIDAY is, sure enough, a strange little movie, almost amateur in feel. It's less a proper feature film than a polemic on the evils of fascism, which must have been on everybody's mind when this was first released back in 1945. Claude Rains is reliably good as a family man who goes off on a holiday with a friend only to return to find America taken over by a fascism regime. The film stalls at that point and becomes interminable; the idea of America being invaded by various unpleasant types has done the rounds ever since (THE HANDMAID'S TALE is a pretty interesting modern TV interpretation of the story) but this is one of its earliest outings. A shame it's not a better film.
Review of Strange Holiday
