# " A HOLIDAY FROM HELL " 1967 - G.I.s on LEAVE FROM VIETNAM / R&R FILM TAIPEI, TAIWAN 82054

This 1967 color film production follows members of the United States Marine Corps to show tourist luxuries enjoyed by servicemen on R&R in Taipei, Taiwan during the Vietnam War (TRT 26:48). The film glosses over some of the more lurid aspects of the military R&R excursions, and the fact that they tended to promote social ills including prostitution, human trafficking and drug running in countries like Thailand, the Philippines and elsewhere. Film begins. “Korea, Winter 1952.” US troops climb a snowy hillside in black and white. Smoke on the horizon (0:18). “Vietnam, Spring 1967” title over troops on jungle patrol (0:45). Our host (1:03). Signage: Tan Son Nhat International Airport (1:16). Camp Alpha, Saigon. “A Holiday From Hell” title over a marine dusting his shoes (1:24). Marines at the R&R processing office (1:45). Money is counted out to a G.I. from a cashier’s window (2:22). Visiting a medic for a shot while smoking a cigar (2:43). Interviews reveal R&R plans (3:15). G.I.s leave Tan Son Nhat Airport and board a Pan American airliner (4:30). A female flight attendant speaks into an intercom (5:24). The Grand Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan looks out on a hazy sky (6:10). Pan Am Vice President Tom Flanagan speaks about air travel between 10 R&R centers (6:53). Taiwanese citizens pedal bicycles in a busy Taipei street (10:07). A cinema advertises the films “Cast a Giant Shadow” and “Grand Prix” (10:20). Laundry hangs from clotheslines (10:23). G.I.s deplane and sign paperwork…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/82054-holiday-from-hell-vwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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