Operation Dames

Relentlessly stupid, no-budget "war picture" made mainly to show off the attributes of the spectacular Eve Meyer--not a bad idea in itself--but that should be an embarrassment to everyone connected with it. Laughable "script", performances that wouldn't pass muster in an elementary-school Christmas pageant, inept "action" scenes, confused direction by the normally competent documentary director Louis Clyde Stoumen--who is apparently not quite sure if he's making a comedy, a philosophical treatise on the futility of war or a leering T&A (by early 1960s standards, anyway) travelogue of Eve Meyer's magnificent body--and a general air of shoddiness and incompetence. Worth seeing in order to watch Eve Meyer strut her stuff, but that's pretty much it.

I'm sure that Operations Dames was a favorite at the drive-ins back in the day. There's absolutely nothing in the way of a plot that you might miss if you were otherwise preoccupied. And if you needed to get in the mood for other activities you did have some curvaceous cuties on screen to get you in the mood.

Otherwise there ain't a whole lot that Operations Dames has going for it. It's set in the Korean War where a platoon of GIs together with a British tommy gets a little too far forward and has to get back to the UN lines. Bad enough already, but these guys also come across a stranded bunch of USO girls and their choreographer in the same predicament.

You know what's sad about this film is that it took women generations to finally get accepted in the Army and in combat situations. These bimbos from the USO set women's liberation back light years. In fact not even the hard bitten professional soldier who is the sergeant in charge of these men can keep it in his pants.

But that was probably the better to remind some what they were at the drive-in for. This no name cast is better off with me not recognizing any of them for any individual effort.

Operations Dames is definitely a team flop.

Operation Dames was allegedly released for the drive-ins back in the day! When I had an opportunity to by a 16mm print of this picture I didn't know what to expect? Turns out for a low budget flick, it's way better than some of the stupid reviews that some of the fools gave it here! First off the typical drive-in flick that we grew up with in the 1970's were all pieces of trash! They were not even a quarter as good as this old picture is. The acting over all was pretty good, I felt that Chuck Henderson as Jeff did a great job of acting! Turns out he was in the cast of one of my favorite detective / cop shows "Manhunt" 1960 in which he played Detective Dan Kramer! It's a damn shame he didn't do more pictures! The character he plays is has the kind of personality we need now in leaders! It's no wonder that we can't get this Covid-19 thing behind us, I mean look at the list of snowflakes we have as leaders, here in California, for example we have Governor Gavin Newsom, Barbara Ferrer, look at her, she looks and sounds like she's on Quaalude's! Who gonna take her seriously? We need a man like the character "Jeff" in the movie! Then our orange colored skin President Donald Trump! He's a huge snowflake, how about Dr. Fauci? He reminds me of Mel Brookes! How about the up and coming snowflake Uncle Joe Biden? Or Kayleigh McEnany? Did Trump have sex with this woman? (We can only hope!) But come on, we need a man to tell us what to do, not a bunch of pussies! Okay so Big Duke Wayne is missing from this picture, but I bet he even liked it! Killing those dirty little Korean reds! There's nothing wrong with this picture! So drink a beer, and enjoy a great little "B" flick from the last golden era of Hollywood! Oh yea, Louis Clyde Stoumen the films director did a damn good job there may have one or two shots that he could have made better, but for a guy who only made a few feature pictures, he also did a damn good job! Eve Meyer wasn't that attractive but she gave it her all! Some of the other chicks were cute! Love it when Byron Morrow's character Benny blows up the reds with a backpack full of hand grenade in revenge for killing his woman! Blow those dirty reds to smithereens! (Toss in Kim Jong-un another snowflake! - Love his flattop!) It's 74 minutes of good solid entertainment! The black and white makes it! Best part, there are no idiots covered with tattoos, no dumb women with colored hair, no cell phones, computers, car chases foul language, horrible recorded "Rock" "Rap" "Country" music! The last year of one of the best and last good decades America had! We all know about the 38th parallel, and the fact that the Korean War was a bunch of B.S. But it sure made for some damn good war pictures, didn't it! Ten Stars from me, just because! Gotta find my M1918 Browning automatic and my Covid-19 mask, and I'm set! Now where did I put that map of North Korea? Damn it!

Set in Korea in 1950. Despite the stupid title, this is actually a pretty grim zero-budget war movie with a USO troupe of glamorous blondes shoehorned into the usual stuff about men under pressure, obviously shot in the Hollywood hills with a bit of stock footage of other troops occasionally thrown in.

Good lord, whoever made this turkey needs to be buried alive. I'm sorry, but the other reviewer must not have seen this movie, he must be watching something else, or have never seen a movie before... 9 out of ten stars? He's saying what, this is as good as Ben Hur or Gone With the Wind? Unintentionally funny, massively unbelievable characters, absurd situations, looks like it was shot in Griffith Park (which works out pretty well--MASH was shot in Griffith Park), crappy script, just about everything that could possibly be wrong with a movie all rolled into one package. Should be required viewing for all prospective film makers as an example of how a movie could be horribly wrong. It reminds me of something a USC student may make for a film class.

Give this one a pass unless you do drugs and are into high camp.