The Camels are Coming (film)

The Camels are Coming is a 1934 British comedy adventure film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Jack Hulbert, Anna Lee, Hartley Power and Harold Huth. A British officer in the Royal Egyptian Air Force combats drug smugglers.^[1]

Production

Based on a story by Tim Whelan and Russell Medcraft, the film was directed by Tim Whelan, an American who made a number of British films. It was filmed at Islington Studios and on location in Egypt around Cairo and Gizeh including at the famous Shepheard's Hotel.

Many of the scenes later had to be reshot in London as sand had got into the cameras, and high winds prevented the recording of dialogue.^[2]

It was a major success at the British box office, but was not released in the United States.^[3]

During the film Anna Lee met Robert Stevenson, whom she subsequently married.

Cast

• Jack Hulbert – Jack Campbell
• Anna Lee – Anita Rodgers
• Hartley Power – Nicholas
• Harold Huth – Doctor Zhiga
• Allan Jeayes- Sheikh
• Peter Gawthorne – Colonel Fairley
• Norma Whalley – Tourist
• Peggy Simpson – Tourist
• Tony De Lungo – Smuggler's servant
• Percy Parsons – Arab

References

Bibliography

• Reid, John Howard. Hollywood's Classic Comedies Featuring Slapstick, Romance, Music, Glamour Or Screwball Fun!. 2007.
• Richards, Jeffrey. The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema, 1929– 1939. I.B. Tauris & Co, 1998.

External links

• The Camels are Coming at the Internet Movie Database