Hannibal Brooks (1969)
- Directed by
- Michael Winner
- Genre
- war film, comedy drama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 40 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A British prisoner of war escapes from Nazi Germany with a female Asian elephant and tries to get both of them to Switzerland. The story was loosely inspired by a real diary but the escape and everything after it is made up.
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What happens
Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film directed by Michael Winner and written by Dick Clement and Ian Lafrenais, based on a story by Winner and Tom Wright. It stars Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard and Wolfgang Preiss. The film follows a prisoner of war's attempt to escape from Nazi Germany to Switzerland during the Second World War, accompanied by a female Asian elephant. The idea for the film was inspired by Tom Wright's diary from the war, when he was captured and spent nine months as a prisoner taking care of Asian elephants at the Munich zoo. However, the escape and all following events of the film are fictional. The title alludes to the Carthaginian military commander Hannibal who led an army with war elephants over the Alps. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Zoo (2017)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.