It's crazy - no water flows in the desert
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| German title | It's crazy - no water flows in the desert | ||
| Original title | Carry On ... Follow That Camel | ||
| Country of production | Great Britain | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1967 | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
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| Director | Gerald Thomas | ||
| script | Talbot Rothwell | ||
| production | Peter Rogers | ||
| music | Eric Rogers | ||
| camera | Alan Hume | ||
| cut | Alfred Roome | ||
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It's crazy - no water flows in the desert is the 14th film from the carry-on… film series .
content
The English high society is outraged: Bertram Oliphant West is said to have played unfairly in cricket . An English gentleman cannot bear this shame . So West went to the French Foreign Legion, accompanied by his loyal servant Simpson .
There he meets the German commander Burger, his incompetent deputy Captain Le Pice and the determined Sergeant Nocker. To make matters worse, there is also Lady Jane Ponsonby, who wants to bring back her future husband West, who is now being courted by the legionnaire lover Zig Zig.
But first you have to fight off Sheikh Abduls and his Arab fighters.
Remarks
It's crazy - no water flows in the desert is a parody of adventure films set in the Foreign Legion , especially adaptations of Percival Christopher Wren's novel Three Foreign Legionaries , which has been filmed several times before. As a replacement for Sidney James was Phil Silvers hired by even relatively large opportunities in the US market hoped for on the part of producers. In addition, the addition Carry on in the international film title was omitted for the second and last time . So the film is just called Follow That Camel there .
One also had problems with another “guest star”: the camel that can be seen in the film had never seen a desert before and could not walk on loose sand, so that one had to use a solid surface. The desert wasn't a real one either, just a kind of big sandpit. The camel also bit Jim Dale 's leg. Julian Holloway , who appeared in eight films in the series, makes his carry-on debut in this film .
synchronization
The German dubbing was created in 1987 on behalf of ZDF and directed by Edgar Ott . The dialogue book comes from Gerda von Rüxleben .
Reviews
- "(...); Film bubbling over with fun. ”(Rating: 2½ stars = above average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon“ Films on TV ” (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 410
"Turbulent comedy with a few swipes at national behavior and mentality, but also a lot of handles in the usual clothes box of the series."
Publications
DVD release
- It's crazy - no water flows in the desert. MMP / AmCo 2006
Soundtrack
- Eric Rogers : Carry On - Follow That Camel. Suite . On: What a Carry On! Eric Rogers' & Bruce Montgomery's theme music of the great British Carry On film comedies . vocalion digital, Watford 2005, CDSA6810 - digital re-recording of the film music in excerpts by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia under the direction of Gavin Sutherland
literature
- Robert Ross: The Carry On Companion . BT Batsford, London 2002, ISBN 0-7134-8771-2
Web links
- Carry on - In the desert, water is not flowing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Follow That Camel at Britmovie (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ It's crazy - in the desert there is no water in the German dubbing index ; Retrieved August 19, 2007
- ↑ It's crazy - no water flows in the desert. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .