Movie · 1979
I'm for the Hippopotamus
95 min · Comedy, Action, Adventure · Released
Composite
4.7
IMDb
6.6 / 10
10,411 votes
TMDB
6.8 / 10
538 votes
Local
— / 10
No votes
Synopsis
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...
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Cast
Terence Hill
Slim
Bud Spencer
Tom
Joe Bugner
Jack Ormond
May Dlamini
Mama Leone
Dawn Jürgens
Stella
Ben Masinga
Jason
Les Marcowitz
Trixie
Sandy Nkomo
Stella's Father
Malcolm Kirk
Ormond's Henchman
Johan Naude
Ormond's Henchman
Mike Schutte
Ormond's Henchman
Kosie Smith
Ormond's Henchman
Marcello Verziera
Ormond's Henchman
Nic van Rensburg
Hugh Rouse
Police Captain
Joseph Szucs
Tony Binarelli
Gambler (uncredited)
Derek Mills
Man in Court (uncredited)
Crew
Art
- Francesco Bronzi Art Direction
- Antonio De Campos Art Department Assistant
- Graeme Orwin Art Department Manager
- Patrick Willis Art Department Assistant
Camera
- Aiace Parolin Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
- Luciano Giustini Makeup Artist
- Fausto De Lisio Hair Designer
- Luciano Sagoni Costume Design
Crew
- Valerio Mazzoli Special Effects
- Rémy Julienne Stunt Coordinator
Directing
- Italo Zingarelli Director
- Renzo Marignano First Assistant Director
Editing
- Claudio M. Cutry Editor
- Derek Ward Assistant Editor
Production
- Roberto Palaggi Producer
- Vincent G. Cox Line Producer
- Paolo Tassara Unit Manager
- Ezio Palaggi Production Manager
Sound
- Walter Rizzati Original Music Composer
Writing
- Vincenzo Mannino Screenplay
- Barbara Alberti Screenplay
- Italo Zingarelli Screenplay
- Amedeo Pagani Screenplay
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