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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Cast & Crew.
Harry Piel
Peter Volker / Director
Herbert A. E. Böhme
Fritz Kröger
Dorothea Wieck
Hella Thiele
Beppo Brem
Wilhelm P. Krüger
A. R. Brinkmann
Ruth Eweler
Christa Brinkmann
Hans Zesch-Ballot
A. R. Thiele
Fritz Hoopts
H. Sander
Maria Krahn
Küppers
Julius Riedmüller
Alois Leitner
Julius Frey
F. Müller
Erwin Biswanger
Writer
Erwin Kreker
Writer
Alexander Lix
Writer
Werner Bochmann
Composer
Fritz Wenneis
Composer
Ernst W. Fiedler
Cinematographer
Karl Puth
Cinematographer
Erich Schmidtke
Cinematographer
Hilde Grebner
Editor
Rudolf Vogel
Details.
Release DateOctober 12, 1953
Original NameGesprengte Gitter
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 23m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
berlin germany
elephant stampede
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 Originally made between 1940 and 1943 under the title of Panic, it faced censorship problems.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.