A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.

Oliver Reed
as Brooks

Michael J. Pollard
as Packy

Wolfgang Preiss
as Col. von Haller

Karin Baal
as Vronia

Helmuth Lohner
as Willi

Peter Carsten
as Kurt

Ralf Wolter
as Dr. Mendel

Jürgen Draeger
as Sami

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
as Kellerman

John Alderton
as Bernard
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I recall seeing this film as a child, and it always made me smile. Oliver Reed is the eponymous WWII POW who has a job at a zoo in Munich looking after "Lucy". Nope, she's not a glamorous blonde - she's an elephant, and quite a stubborn one at that. As the allies close in, it's decided to evacuate "...