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Released
1979 · FILM

I'm for the Hippopotamus

Directed by
Runtime
95 min
Language
IT
ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

In 1950, in Africa, Tom runs safaris for tourists, secretly providing them with guns loaded with blanks. Conflict arises when Slim, Tom’s cousin—a laid-back slacker and committed environmentalist—arrives. The two cousins clash with Jack Ormond, a local animal trafficker. A doctor, who is also a friend of the duo, publicly denounces Ormond’s mistreatment of animals in a newspaper article, prompting Ormond to retaliate by sending his henchmen to destroy the doctor’s clinic. However, at the clinic, Ormond’s men encounter Tom and Slim, who are waiting for them. In a swift confrontation, the two cousins overpower and defeat the henchmen in a fight. Enraged, Ormond attempts to bribe the cousins, and when this fails, he has them falsely imprisoned for a theft they did not commit. After escaping from prison, the two men make their way to Ormond’s ship, where they confront and overwhelm the merchant’s men.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Claudio M CutryShot by Aiace ParolinScored by Walter Rizzati

Also known as

  • Das Krokodil und sein Nilpferdde
  • Estoy con los hipopótamoses
  • Cul et Chemisefr

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