WWII adventure that veers skillfully between drama and comedy . In War Was Two , captured British soldier Stephen Brooks (Oliver Reed) is on a prison train to Germany . On the train he meets an American prisoner, Packy (tiresomely flacky Michael J. Pollard in a major comic role) , who's obsessed with getaway. On arrival at the POW camp Stalag 7 , Brooks and other fellow POWs are sent to work at the local Munich zoo, to care for the animals .After a devastating bombing raid that kills some of the animals , the zoo staff is decided to evacuate the surviving animals. The prisoner of war , Hannibal Brooks working at the zoo is assigned to look after an elephant named Lucy , to whom he grows devoted , as he gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for and liberated from Munich zoo . En route with the elephant from Munich to a safer zoo in Innsbruck , Hannibal accidentally kills the Nazi member of the escort and then he sets off with Lucy over the mountains to Switzerland . As he attempts to cross the Alps on the back of the elephant . Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom. Supersoldier in the Super Adventure . It's a suspense story. It's a comedy story. It's a war story. It's a warm story. It's a wild story. It's a love story. It's a moving story. It's an elephant story. It's a super story. Guess who "got the Steve McQueen-Sean Connery-Burt Lancaster-type role" in this super adventure?
A war comedy with adventures , thrills , humor , spectacular battles and a good thrilling climax . It is a sympathetic tale with entertainment and funny enough , featured by some likeable roles who enhance the amusement . It waves from comedy , noisy action to melodrama . Main and support cast are pretty well . British Oliver Reed plays a POW assigned to evacuate valuable elephant from Munich zoo , giving an agreeable acting , forming a peculiar buddie movie with snub-nosed American Michael J. Pollard who steals the the show by delivering comic relief , while the elephant wins all hearts in the emotive final. They're very well accompanied by a fine support cast , such as : Wolfgang Preiss as Colonel Friedrich von Haller , John Alderton as Bernard , Peter Carsten as Kurt , gorgeous Karin Baal as Polish Vronia , Ralf Wolter and brief appearance by James Donald as POW priest.
Hannibal Brooks (1969) contains a sensitive and catching musical score by French composer Francis Lai . As well as colorful cinematography by Robert Paynter , though a perfect remastering being really necessary . The picture was acceptably directed by Michael Winner. He had important commercial success in the mid-70 with his fetish actor, Charles Bronson , achieving various box-office hits, as ¨Deathwish I and II¨, furthermore ¨The mechanics¨ and ¨The stone killer¨. With his obsessive need to work, Winner accepted many inferior projects, including two weak Death Wish sequels , though occasionally he attempted to make more prestigious films, notably ¨The Nightcomers¨ (1971), a prequel to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, made in Britain with Marlon Brando; and ¨A chorus of disapproval¨ (1989), a satisfying version of Alan Ayckbourn's bittersweet comedy . Hannibal Brooks (1969) rating : 6.5/10 . Fun and enjoyable film that will appeal to Oliver Reed fans and WWII enthusiasts.
A war comedy with adventures , thrills , humor , spectacular battles and a good thrilling climax . It is a sympathetic tale with entertainment and funny enough , featured by some likeable roles who enhance the amusement . It waves from comedy , noisy action to melodrama . Main and support cast are pretty well . British Oliver Reed plays a POW assigned to evacuate valuable elephant from Munich zoo , giving an agreeable acting , forming a peculiar buddie movie with snub-nosed American Michael J. Pollard who steals the the show by delivering comic relief , while the elephant wins all hearts in the emotive final. They're very well accompanied by a fine support cast , such as : Wolfgang Preiss as Colonel Friedrich von Haller , John Alderton as Bernard , Peter Carsten as Kurt , gorgeous Karin Baal as Polish Vronia , Ralf Wolter and brief appearance by James Donald as POW priest.
Hannibal Brooks (1969) contains a sensitive and catching musical score by French composer Francis Lai . As well as colorful cinematography by Robert Paynter , though a perfect remastering being really necessary . The picture was acceptably directed by Michael Winner. He had important commercial success in the mid-70 with his fetish actor, Charles Bronson , achieving various box-office hits, as ¨Deathwish I and II¨, furthermore ¨The mechanics¨ and ¨The stone killer¨. With his obsessive need to work, Winner accepted many inferior projects, including two weak Death Wish sequels , though occasionally he attempted to make more prestigious films, notably ¨The Nightcomers¨ (1971), a prequel to Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, made in Britain with Marlon Brando; and ¨A chorus of disapproval¨ (1989), a satisfying version of Alan Ayckbourn's bittersweet comedy . Hannibal Brooks (1969) rating : 6.5/10 . Fun and enjoyable film that will appeal to Oliver Reed fans and WWII enthusiasts.