Hannibal brooks oliver reed is a british prisoner of war assigned to care for an elephant in a zoo in munich'. '.strtoupper('w')hen the zoo is bombed by the americans, brooks is ordered to transport the elephant to a safer zoo in innsbruck'. '.strtoupper('e')n route to innsbruck, brooks accidentally kills the nazi member of the escort peter carsten and the sets off with an american michael j.pollard and an austrian helmuth lohner, the trio escapes with the elephant and head for the swiss border and freedom'. '.strtoupper('d')irected by michael winner and released in 1968, this film has since become a cult classic.