Why? Why did they make this? Maybe it should be renamed "Plan 9 from Alexandria". I found it on Netflix on "movies from the 1970s". Now I just can't stop laughing at this crazy film.
I think it's interesting that Netflix themselves have classified this as "Heartfelt" and "Social issue drama", so even they aren't actually sure what this is.
The social issues on display are things like "Shall I shoot this British soldier who's lying in my bed, or shall I get him breakfast?" or "Can I go to the party with a tear in my jacket which my mother has failed to mend correctly?"
The story, as much as there is one, seems to concern a group of school boys, played by twenty-something actors, who are at an expensive school, and go around looking for prostitutes in their spare time. It's supposedly set during the second world war, although the city is full of modern tourist hotels, glamorous water skiiers, people wearing flares, and so on.
The backdrop is that some of the Egyptians want to support Hitler against the British then occupying the country.
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