Elephant Fury (1953)
1h 23m
Running Time
October 12, 1953Release Date
Plot.
German big game hunter brings elephants back from Africa safely through enemy lines, but they go on a stampede in Berlin. Filming began during WWII in Germany, but production was stopped because story showed Third Reich police and military having problems coping with an elephant stampede; after the War, it got completed by its originator, and exported to the US with English dubbed, while removing all references to its 1940s German origins!
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Harry Piel
Großtierfänger Peter Volker
Herbert A. E. Böhme
Mitarbeiter Fritz Kröger
Hans Zesch-Ballot
Zoodirektor Thiele
Wilhelm P. Krüger
A. R. Brinkmann
Dorothea Wieck
Hella Thiele
Ruth Eweler
Christa Brinkmann
Erwin Biswanger
Writer
Erwin Kreker
Writer
Details.
Release DateOctober 12, 1953
Original NameGesprengte Gitter
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 23m
Genres
Wiki.
Elephant Fury (German: Gesprengte Gitter) is a 1953 West German drama war film directed by and starring Harry Piel. It also features Herbert A.E. Bohme, Hans Zesch-Ballot and Dorothea Wieck. The film had a troubled production history. Originally made between 1940 and 1943 under the title of Panic, it faced censorship problems. Following the end of the Second World War, Piel recovered the negative which had fallen into the hands of the occupying Soviet forces. He re-shot some scenes, and the film was eventually released more than a decade after it had first begun shooting.