what's the storyline?
This film was released in America in 1961, titled "Operation Camel." Can anyone tell me just what the storyline to the film is?
shareJust this morning I saw it on cable.
What a waste of time.
Yet I just couldn't stop watchingand returning to it until the end. Thank goodness it was short. I think it was probably cut down but still had the slapstick fake fight scenes in tact.
It really isn't important to know what it was about.
Here is what I could gather.
A group of soldiers (not very enthusiastic) are trained (mostly to march) to be in a U.N. peace keeping force in Gaza. One of the soldiers meets a girl in a fancy sports car in the middle of "basic training". She ends up also in Gaza as a dancer in a club along with another girl from the car. The club owner steals the girls passports .The soldiers save the day with a big fight.
Oh, and before that scene- there is a scene with a little Egyptian boy who wandered into a mine-field. The soldier gets him out with the help of the other soldiers who make a line and passing the boy out of the field.
There was a scene with a belly dancer. At the beginning the dancer seemed pretty enough and at the end -maybe they changed dancers- she was ugly and fat.
Their is also a scene with tourists and Egyptian pyramids.
To the best of my knowledge :) there are no pyramids in Gaza.
It was supposed to be a comedy. To me it was painful--except for the song "Ya Moustafa Ya Moustafa" which was translated into something funny. I don't know if the original song is supposed to be funny or not. I wish I recorded that song and listened to the words again.
I typed in-- Camel, 1960, and Gaza--in google. I found an article about the people who made this movie. It was supposed to be a remake of another movie.
I did change the channel a number of times but I really don't think I missed anything.
Big waste of time.
I hope my message to you is at least slightly less of a mess than the movie itself.!