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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS Year: 1969 Rating: **** |
Short, quirky, extremely offbeat Michael J. Pollard is like a novelty song of an actor, with BONNIE AND CLYDE his one big hit while in other movies — like Michael Winner's fourth collaboration with THE SYSTEM star Oliver Reed titled HANNIBAL BROOKS — Pollard doesn't really fit at all...
Although he's almost deliberately cast against type as a gung-ho explosives-expert leading partisans around to kill Germans, and since Reed himself hardly seems part of World War II, both work together comfortably enough in a hybrid of road movie, physical comedy and action/adventure where Reed, a POW in Germany... after conveniently working in a German zoo... takes a prized elephant across enemy lines to their long-shot goal of Switzerland...
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| The System's Oliver Reed, John Alderton and John Porter-Davison in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
And there's hardly any pressure to think otherwise — although it's not an entirely happy ending for some of the humans including a bad German, a good German and a lovely Polish ingenue (meanwhile Reed & Winner's THE SYSTEM co-stars John Alterton and John Porter-Davison turn up with POW-Cinema legend James Donald)...
Overall the usually bombastic Reed seems passive and indifferent towards war, catered to the Vietnam-era audience as Winner overindulges in zoom shots, the camera almost constantly rocketing forward and back — yet mostly to showcase the gorgeous Austrian locales that, like that elephant, provides splendid backdrops for a nifty time-filler.
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| Karin Baal in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed and John Alderton in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| John Porter-Davison in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Michael J. Pollard in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Karin Baal in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Helmuth Lohner in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed and Peter Carsten HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed and Karin Baal HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Ralf Wolter and Maria Brockerhoff in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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Wolfgang Preiss in HANNIBAL BROOKS
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| Ralf Wolter and Maria Brockerhoff in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Helmuth Lohner and Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS with bad German Peter Carsten
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| Karin Baal in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| James Donald in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed and Lucy in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed and Aida the Elephant as Lucy in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Wolfgang Preiss in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Karin Baal in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Karin Baal in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS with Helmuth Lohner |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Maria Brockerhoff in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed,in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| The System's Oliver Reed, John Alderton and John Porter-Davison in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| James Donald, Oliver Reed, John Alderton and John Porter-Davison in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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Terence Sewards, John Alderton, John Porter-Davison in Hannibal Brooks
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| Terence Sewards, John Alderton, John Porter-Davison in Hannibal Brooks |
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| THE SYSTEM actor John Alderton in Hannibal Brooks |
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Wolfgang Preiss in HANNIBAL BROOKS
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| Oliver Reed, John Alderton with John Porter-Davison and Michael J. Pollard in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Terence Sewards and John Alderton in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Helmuth Lohner, Terence Sewards, Oliver Reed and John Alderton in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Oliver Reed and John Alderton in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| WWII POW Movie Icon James Donald from The Great Escape, King Rat & Hannibal Brooks |
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| John Alderton in Hannibal Brooks |
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| Karin Baal and Peter Carsten HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Helmuth Lohner in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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| Karin Baal in HANNIBAL BROOKS |
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