Hawmps?
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Actor: James Hampton, Slim PickensBrand: GT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Good Times Video
DVD Reviews of Hawmps?
DVD Review: Hawmps?
Summary: 3 Stars
This film wasn't as funny on the small screen as I remembered it in the theater back in the 70s. Perhaps if it had been in letterbox format, it might have helped. The DVD picture quality wasn't great, either.
The story itself was pretty good; it's the heavily fictionalized story of the US Army's experiment with camels in the 1850s. I read in several places that the movie was set after the Civil War, but that is incorrect. While I can't vouch for the accuracy of the uniforms for the period, there are plenty of period references that do indicate it was set in the 1850s, particularly references to Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War.
The humor is often slapstick and sometimes some of the punchlines fall flat or are dated. There's a cameo appearance by Benjie that today's audiences won't appreciate. The last line of the film has one of the characters complain that he has to "walk a mile for these camels." If you don't recall the Camel cigarette ads from the 70s and before, it makes for a pretty lame ending!
I was thinking of using the film in a history class to go with a reading about the real camel experiment. It may work, it may not.
Overall, it's a pretty good family film with no cursing, no sex, and no sexual innuendo. There is some humor related to alcohol use; one soldier is always drunk (he sobers up and gets straight by the end of the film) and one of the camels will drink any open bottle she can get her lips on.
Hawmps? was made by the same folks who made the Benjie films.
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