Which epic 1960s film is unique in the sense that the only female featured in the entire film is a camel named Gladys?
Epic film making the definition epic a matter of dispute, and raise questions as to whether it is a "genre" at all. As Roger Ebert put it, in his "Great Movies" article on "Lawrence of Arabia": The comedy film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" had the joking tagline "Makes "Ben-Hur" look like an epic." The epic is among the oldest of film genres, with one early notable example being Giovanni Pastrone's "Cabiria", a three-hour silent film, about the Punic Wars, that laid the groundwork for the subsequent silent epics of D. W. Griffith. The genre reached a peak of popularity in
The Black Camel (film) of the picture was shot on location in Honolulu, with several scenes filmed at the renowned Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The Black Camel (film) The Black Camel is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Hamilton MacFadden based on the novel of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the second film to star Warner Oland as detective Charlie Chan, and the sole surviving title of the first five Chan films starring Oland. "The Black Camel" marked the film debut of Robert Young. Movie star Shelah Fayne is making a picture on location in Honolulu, Hawaii. She summons