I'm for the Hippopotamus

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I'm for the Hippopotamus
Io sto con gli ippopotami.jpg
Italian theatrical release poster by Renato Casaro
Directed by Italo Zingarelli
Written by Barbara Alberti
Amedeo Pagani
Vincenzo Mannino
Italo Zingarelli
Produced by Vincent G. Cox
Roberto Palaggi
Starring Terence Hill
Bud Spencer
Joe Bugner
Cinematography Aiace Parolin
Edited by Claudio M. Cutry
Music by Walter Rizzati
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryItaly

I'm for the Hippopotamus (Italian : Io sto con gli ippopotami) is a 1979 Italian adventure comedy film directed by Italo Zingarelli and starring the film duo of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. [1]

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The film was mostly shot in South Africa. It focuses on the rivalry between two cousins, with one of them intentionally undermining the other's safari expeditions. The cousins eventually set aside their differences when they have to team up against a common foe.

Plot

Tom (Spencer) is a Safari organizer in Rhodesia. He is an animal lover at heart and secretly give his clients rifles loaded with blanks. His life changes with the arrival of his cousin and former business partner Slim (Hill). Both men have been raised by a Zimbabwean woman after they lost their parents, but they don't see eye to eye. Eventually they have to team up when they are threatened by Jack Ormond (Bugner), a local gangster trafficking ivory.

When Ormond fails to buy out Tom and Slim, he decides to teach them a lesson by destroying their safari bus. Tom and Slim retaliate by freeing the animals caged in Osmond's estate. The local police get them arrested but thehy manage to escape to travel to the Zambesi river, where they pose as dockworkers and board one of Osmond's cargo ships loaded with ivory and wild animals en route to Canada. After a fight with Osmond and his men, Tom and Slim took control of the ship, free the animals and sail across the Ocean to the Maldives. In the final scene, the ship's captain warns Tom and Slim that they are committing an act of piracy and the matter is far from over, to which Slim replies: 'No, no, the matter is definitely over'.

Cast

Soundtrack

As with many other Spencer & Hill films, its soundtrack and theme song "Grau Grau Grau" (both composed and performed by Walter Rizzati, with Spencer himself providing lead vocals on the song) became very popular in Italy at the time of the film's release, and are still popular among the duo's international fan base.

References

  1. ↑ Morandini, Laura; Morandini, Luisa; Morandini, Morando (2010). Il Morandini 2011. Dizionario dei film. Bologna: Zanichelli. ISBN   9788808227225.
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