Hannibal Brooks

Hannibal Brooks
Hannibal Brooks
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Michael Winner
Screenplay by	Ian La Frenais; Dick Clement;
Story by	Michael Winner; Tom Wright;
Produced by	Michael Winner
Starring	Oliver Reed; Michael J. Pollard; Wolfgang Preiss; Helmuth Lohner;
Cinematography	Robert Paynter
Edited by	Peter Austen-Hunt; Lionel Selwyn;
Music by	Francis Lai
Production; company	Scimitar Films
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	3 April 1969 (Fox Theater, Westwood Village, Los Angeles);
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£1 million or less than $3 million

Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film directed by Michael Winner and written by Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, based on a story by Winner and Tom Wright.^[4] 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.^[5] 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.

^ Cite error: The named reference champlin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ There was a crooked rail Wright, Ian. The Guardian 29 May 1968: 7.
^ Article 5 -- No Title SHIVAS, MARK. Los Angeles Times (19230 Mar 1969: t1.
^ Gallagher, Paul (1 February 2016). "'You Don't Share A Hotel with Oliver Reed': Michael Winner Takes Two Elephants to Switzerland". Flashbak. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
^ Goodwin, Cliff (2001). Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed. Virgin. p. 115. ISBN 9780753505199.

[champlin-1] Cite error: The named reference champlin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[rail-2] There was a crooked rail Wright, Ian. The Guardian 29 May 1968: 7.

[3] Article 5 -- No Title SHIVAS, MARK. Los Angeles Times (19230 Mar 1969: t1.

[4] Gallagher, Paul (1 February 2016). "'You Don't Share A Hotel with Oliver Reed': Michael Winner Takes Two Elephants to Switzerland". Flashbak. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2019.

[Goodwin-5] Goodwin, Cliff (2001). Evil Spirits: The Life of Oliver Reed. Virgin. p. 115. ISBN 9780753505199.

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