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I'm for the Hippopotamus
Quick Facts
DirectorItalo Zingarelli
Runtime1h 35m · PG-13
GenresAction · Adventure · Comedy
Release1979-11-30
Film

I'm for the Hippopotamus

1979· PG-13· 1h 35m· Action· Adventure· Comedy

In 1950, in Africa. Tom organizes safaris for tourists, secretly equipping them with guns loaded with blanks. When Slim, Tom’s cousin—a sly slacker and staunch environmentalist—arrives, the two men come into conflict with Jack Ormond, a local animal trafficker. A doctor, a friend of the duo, denounces Mr. Ormond’s exploitation of animals in a newspaper, prompting Ormond to send his henchmen to destroy the clinic where the good doctor practices. But at the medical facility, Ormond’s henchmen find Tom and Slim waiting for them, and in the blink of an eye, the two cousins wipe out these thugs in a brawl. Ormond then tries to bribe the two cousins, and when that fails, has them imprisoned for a theft they never committed. After escaping from prison, the two men rush toward Ormond’s ship, beating the merchant’s men to a pulp...

1979-11-30
I'm for the Hippopotamus

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Key Crew
ScreenplayAmedeo Pagani
Director of PhotographyAiace Parolin
Original Music ComposerWalter Rizzati
Full cast & crew (18 cast · 23 crew)

Details

Released1979-11-30
Runtime1h 35m · PG-13
StatusReleased
StudiosDenver Film Productions
LanguagesFrench · Italian
CountriesItaly · Germany · South Africa
Rating6.8/10 · 529 votes
Original languageit

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