Lance Corporal Stephen "Hannibal" Brooks is a British prisoner of war who is put to work in Munich zoo, looking after a female Asian elephant named Lucy. When the zoo is bombed by the Americans, the zoo director decides that the zoo is unsafe for the elephant.

Hannibal Brooks: Directed by Michael Winner. With Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard, Wolfgang Preiss, John Alderton. A British prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for.

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

Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 war comedy directed by Michael Winner. The film follows a British POW assigned to care for an elephant named Lucy during World War II. When the zoo is bombed, Brooks is tasked with escorting Lucy to safety, leading to …

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Hannibal Brooks COMEDY The dilemma of a WWII British POW: How to safely and successfully transport an elephant from the Munich Zoo over the Swiss Alps... and while doing all that--escaping!

British soldier Stephen Brooks (Oliver Reed) is having trouble with his armoured car behind enemy lines in Second World War Germany, and just as he gets it started, he encounters even more trouble when he comes under a hail of bullets from a German patrol who capture him, telling Brooks that for him, the war is over.

Hannibal Brooks Wright concocted a tale about a man who escapes from Nazi Germany through the Swiss Alps—while escorting an elephant (à lá Hannibal, the legendary Carthaginian military commander).