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Hannibal Brooks
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| Hannibal Brooks | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Michael Winner |
| Produced by | Michael Winner |
| Written by | Michael Winner Tom Wright Ian La Frenais Dick Clement |
| Starring | Oliver Reed Michael J Pollard Wolfgang Preiss Helmuth Lohner |
| Music by | Francis Lai |
| Distributed by | United Artists Films |
| Release date(s) | 1969 |
| Running time | 102 min. |
| Language | English |
Hannibal Brooks is a film about a man trying to get to Switzerland, from Germany, in World War II, accompanied by an Asian elephant.
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant.
The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the head of the zoo decides that it is not safe for his Asian elephant, Lucy, so he sends Brooks (Oliver Reed) along with an unfriendly German soldier, a friendly German soldier named Willy, and a female cook, to accompany the elephant to a zoo in Innsbruck via train. They are forced to walk when the SS commandeer the train. When in Austria, Brooks kills one of the soldiers defending Lucy and they are forced to run towards the Swiss border to safety. They are helped along the way by an American escapee named Packy (Michael J. Pollard) who has formed a group of partisans to fight the Germans in Austria. After many run-ins with the Nazis, they eventually make it to Switzerland.
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