Caroline Langford Movies

Interlaced with commercials that should remind audiences of television shows, this standard "Candid Camera" documentary features the Allen Funt of Israel, Yehuda Barkan and his crew of pranksters pulling the proverbial wool over the eyes of the unsuspecting. In one instance, a crew member in disguise has to sample all the fruit in a stall before deciding on what he wants to buy. The reaction from the vendor is what anyone would expect. In another vignette, the cameraman hides inside a tree trunk and whenever a dog comes up to mark his territory, the tree moves. The look on the dogs' faces is hilarious as they cannot figure out what has happened to their ordinary universe. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Following up the success of candid camera television shows and one such feature film, this weakly limned comedy has just such a program's crew going out into the nooks and crannies of Israel to entrap unsuspecting citizens. Although some of the practical jokes and tricksters in these shows can trash the people who fall victim to their duplicity, this movie does not. Good-natured citizens might feel a little foolish, but they are not ridiculed. Among the deceptions is one sequence in which a group of people are told that the only way they can start a train is to go and push it -- and so they do. Another sequence has an ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) responding like a human being as customers approach to take out money. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi