I'm for the Hippopotamus

I'm for the Hippopotamus

1979
1h 35m
6.8

6.8/10

525 votes • View on IMDb
Action Adventure Comedy
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...

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Production Information

Production Companies
Denver Film Productions
Production Countries
Italy
Spoken Languages
French Italian

Keywords

africa love of animals cousin simbabwe poacher conflict animals

Quick Facts

Original Title Io sto con gli ippopotami
Release Date November 30, 1979
Status Released
Language IT
IMDb ID tt0079351

Cast

Terence Hill
Terence Hill

Slim

Bud Spencer
Bud Spencer

Tom

Joe Bugner
Joe Bugner

Jack Ormond

May Dlamini
May Dlamini

Mama Leone

Dawn Jürgens
Dawn Jürgens

Stella

Ben Masinga
Ben Masinga

Jason

Les Marcowitz
Les Marcowitz

Trixie

Sandy Nkomo
Sandy Nkomo

Stella's Father

Malcolm Kirk
Malcolm Kirk

Ormond's Henchman

Johan Naude
Johan Naude

Ormond's Henchman

Mike Schutte
Mike Schutte

Ormond's Henchman

Kosie Smith
Kosie Smith

Ormond's Henchman

Key Crew

Vincenzo Mannino
Screenplay
Roberto Palaggi
Producer
Barbara Alberti
Screenplay
Italo Zingarelli
Director
Italo Zingarelli
Screenplay
Amedeo Pagani
Screenplay