Hugo the Hippo

IMDb link: 0074657
IMDb rating: 6.9 (606 votes)
Genres: Drama, Animation, Family
Director: Bill Feigenbaum
Cast: Burl Ives, Robert Morley, Paul Lynde, Marie Osmond, James A. Osmond and others

Release date: 9 Jan 1976
Release year: 1975
Runtime: 91 minutes
Country: Hungary, United States
Keywords: underwater scene, lion, animal in title, buffalo, antelope, zebra, baboon, giraffe, shark, zanzibar

Plot:

The Sultan of Zanzibar has a problem--his harbor is infested with sharks. To solve the problem, he brings in twelve hippos to keep the sharks away, and it works. But once the hippos are no longer needed, they become a nuisance and are massacred by Aban Khan--all but one little hippo named Hugo. What will become of the last of the Zanzibar hippos?

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