I'm for the Hippopotamus

Overview

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 30, 1979

Original language

Italian

Spoken languages

French, Italian

Countries

Italy

Production

Denver Film Productions

Cast

Terence Hill,Bud Spencer,Joe Bugner,May Dlamini,Dawn Jürgens,Ben Masinga,Les Marcowitz,Sandy Nkomo,Malcolm Kirk,Johan Naudeand 8 more

Director

Italo Zingarelli

Writer

Italo Zingarelli,Barbara Alberti,Amedeo Pagani,Vincenzo Mannino

Producer

Roberto Palaggi

Cinematography

Aiace Parolin

Music

Walter Rizzati

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0079351