

I'm for the Hippopotamus
In 1950, in Africa. Tom organizes safaris for tourists, secretly equipping them with guns loaded with blanks. When Slim, Tom’s cousin—a sly slacker and staunch environmentalist—arrives, the two men come into conflict with Jack Ormond, a local animal trafficker. A doctor, a friend of the duo, denounces Mr. Ormond’s exploitation of animals in a newspaper, prompting Ormond to send his henchmen to destroy the clinic where the good doctor practices. But at the medical facility, Ormond’s henchmen find Tom and Slim waiting for them, and in the blink of an eye, the two cousins wipe out these thugs in a brawl. Ormond then tries to bribe the two cousins, and when that fails, has them imprisoned for a theft they never committed. After escaping from prison, the two men rush toward Ormond’s ship, beating the merchant’s men to a pulp...
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- Language
- French
- africa
- love of animals
- cousin
- simbabwe
- poacher
- conflict
- animals
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Italy, Germany, South Africa
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1330 Nov 1979
DenmarkDK
- PhysicalA15 Jun 2015
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1213 Dec 1979
- Physical12DVD26 Nov 2009
- Physical12Blu-ray20 Feb 2014
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1228 May 1987
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT30 Nov 1979
SpainES
- Theatrical713 Dec 1979
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I'm for the Hippopotamus was released on 30 November 1979.
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