Customer Reviews

Hawmps?

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Don't get me wrong. I like the film. It's pretty fun light hearted stuff, but this is one of the worst video transfer jobs I've ever seen. I can barely read the opening text, I can barely make out some of the shapes, and the whole thing looks like its negative had been sitting in the sun for the last 30 some odd years. Then again it's Good Times Video marketing the thing, and they're not exactly known for quality videos. Both audio and visuals get a major thumbs down in this viewers book. Do your wallet a favor, and don't buy this DVD. Wait for a better version (if there's ever going to be one).

Still, if you can put up with all that, it's actually a pretty funny movie. Camels and cowboys. Who would've thought?

We own a VHS version of this film (which also included a short on the "Life of Benji", and ran it so many times it's wearing out. I was thrilled to see this DVD version and ordered it, but we watched it last night and it's little better than our VHS tape. The video is especially bad in the low light/night scenes (and there's a fair number of those) where you can't make out what's happening. The soundtrack is so-so as well (and mono).

Nutshell: great family film, awful video quality.

This is a fairly funny movie about a cavalry unit in the US Army that is issued Camels instead of horses to patrol the American Southwestern deserts. Supposedly based on actual events. Funny in a sort of "F Troop" fashion.

this is still funny today as when it was made. the 3 stars just comes from the quality of the recording on DVD. casting is good.

This movie is a classic. We used to watch it so often when I was a child. We would show it to all of our friends when they stayed over, it was almost a tradition! The bad 70's hair and make-up just make the movie more fun to watch. I absolutely love it.

this joe camp film (of the benji films) looks at the experimental use of camels by the cavalry in the american southwest after the civil war. slapstick comedy that can be enjoyed by all members of the family, be they 2 or 92. and yes, it's based on real events; the camels were turned loose, and hadji ali is buried (in arizona, if i'm not mistaken) under a tombstone adorned with a camel. if clean humor is your cuppa tea, get this one before it disappears again!

This show is about a cavalry unit in Texas who are unable to use their horses because of the extremely hot weather, which the horses can't adjust to. The army gives them camels as an experiment, which at first is hated by those in the unit. However, in the end the experiment is canceled, but the soldiers have grown too fond of their camels. Starring James Hampton, Slim Pickens, Denver Pyle, Jack Elam and Frank Inn. Great family movie, entertaining, and clean.

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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