Hannibal Brooks – Oliver Reed DVD

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A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he’s been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.

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In WW2, captured British soldier Stephen Brooks is on a prison train to Germany.On the train he meets an American prisoner, Packy, who’s obsessed with escaping.Brooks tries to temper Packy and reminds him that escaped prisoners are shot if recaptured.Packy is insistent despite Brooks’ warnings. On arrival at the POW camp Stalag 7A, Brooks and other fellow POWs are sent to work at the local Munich zoo, to care for the animals.Brooks is assigned to care for Lucy the elephant.The German caretaker in charge of Lucy is asked to train Brooks in his new job.At first, Brooks hates the assignment, considering the large amount of animal waste to be cleaned daily.However, he eventually becomes attached to Lucy the elephant.After a devastating bombing raid that kills some of the animals and zoo staff it is decided to evacuate the surviving animals.

 

REGION ALL PAL DVD WILL NOT PLAY IN U.S/CANADA

 

This item is a manufactured-on-demand release. Using recordable CDs & DVDs, the label who owns the rights to these MOD releases, custom burns discs for each order sold. Most titles previously had a pressed release but have lapsed out of print and are now only available on these  MOD discs.

 

 

Additional information

Former Rental

No

Format

MOD DVD

Release Year

1969

Region Code

DVD: 0/All (Region Free/Worldwide)

Special Features

Manufactured on Demand, NTSC

Genre

Adventure, Comedy, War

Actor

John Alderton, Michael J. Pollard, Oliver Reed

Movie/TV Title

Hannibal Brooks