
Hannibal Brooks
Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British-American war comedy film directed by Michael Winner and written by Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement based on a story by Winner and Tom Wright. It stars Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard and Wolfgang Preiss.
Plot
Stephen "Hannibal" Brooks is a British prisoner of war Lance corporal who is put to work in Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant called Lucy. When the zoo is bombed by the Americans, the zoo's director decides it is unsafe for the elephant to remain there. So he sends Brooks along with hostile German soldier Kurt, a friendly German soldier named Willy, and Vronia, a female cook to accompany the elephant to Innsbruck Zoo via a train.
More details
author | Dick Clement Ian La Frenais |
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contentLocation | Austria |
director | Michael Winner |
editor | Lionel Selwyn Peter Austen-Hunt |
events | Alps World War II |
genre | comedy-drama |
keywords | asian elephant border post british prison capture force german soldier help innsbruck mumps munich partisan prisoner of war rescue ss officer swiss switzerland their way |
musicBy | Francis Lai |
producer | Michael Winner |
publisher | United Artists |
theme | war |