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Hannibal Brooks (1968)

Director: Michael Winner

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From Time Out Film Guide

British PoW Brooks (Reed) is assigned to look after an elephant named Lucy, to whom he grows devoted. En route with the elephant from Munich to a safer zoo in Innsbruck, Brooks accidentally kills the Nazi member of the escort (Karsten) and then sets off with Lucy over the mountains to Switzerland. Pollard is tiresomely flaky as one 'Packy', leader of a private army, and Oliver Reed is not much more than Oliver Reed. Pretty good, though, for a Michael Winner ?lm.

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Time Out Film Guide

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  • Martin Hall said...
    Posted on Aug 05 2007 06:07 I have loved this film for many years. It is a good family film and has a good story to it. The back ground scenery is awesome and i could watch the great Oliver Reed and Michael J Pollard over and over again.
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Cast & crew

Director: Michael Winner

Producer: Michael Winner

Cast: Oliver Reed, Michael J Pollard, Wolfgang Preiss, Helmut Lohner, Karin Baal, Peter Karsten, John Alderton, James Donald full cast

Genre(s): War

Duration: 102 mins

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