Entertaining POW movie with a difference: Oliver Reed busts out with an elephant. Reed is a dynamic imposing actor but he does feel miscast as an elephant lover. As has been pointed out he probably should have swapped roles with Michael J Pollard who plays an American working with the partisans.
The locations are lovely - it was shot n Austria - with those snow capped mountains and green fields. It's got that great late 60s war movie color photography. A pretty girl, some Germans are killed. It moves fast.
If I'm being brutally honest the elephant doesn't have that much personality and her relationship with Reed doesn't really come across. I wanted it to but it doesn't. Maybe if Michael Crawford had starred. But I'm not sure Winner was the one to put in those character style scenes.
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