

Hannibal Brooks
If Hannibal Did It...So Could Brooks!
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 director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.
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- Language
- German
- elephant
- switzerland
- world war ii
- prisoner of war
- zoo
- satire
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1330 Apr 1969
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU18 Jan 1969
GermanyDE
- Theatrical168 Oct 1969
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Hannibal Brooks was released on 18 January 1969.
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CinemaSerf
3/28/2022
I recall seeing this film as a child, and it always made me smile. Oliver Reed is the eponymous WWII POW who has a job at a zoo in Munich looking after "Lucy". Nope, she's not a glamorous blonde - she's an elephant, and quite a stubborn one at that. As the allies close in, it's decided to evacuate "Lucy" to Austria, but when an officer commandeers their train, they decide to walk - the two, with a pair of soldiers as…
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