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Director:
Peter R. Hunt
Writers:
Stanley Price (screenplay) &
Alastair Reid (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
20 May 1976 (Netherlands) more
Tagline:
A spectacular adventure you will always remember and a beautiful love story you will never forget.
Plot:
During World War One an English poacher, an American adventurer and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. | full synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Lee Marvin ... Colonel Flynn O'Flynn

Roger Moore ... Sebastian Oldsmith
Barbara Parkins ... Rosa O'Flynn / Oldsmith

Ian Holm ... Mohammed, O'Flynn's Mute Servant
Reinhard Kolldehoff ... Herman Fleischer, German Commissioner / Military Commander of Southern Province (as Rene Kolldehoff)
Gernot Endemann ... Braun
Karl Michael Vogler ... Von Kleine
Horst Janson ... Kyller
Gerard Paquis ... Capt. da Silva - Portuguese Pilot
Maurice Denham ... Mr. Smythe
Jean Kent ... Mrs. Smythe

Heather Wright ... Cynthia Smythe
George Coulouris ... El Keb
Renu Setna ... Mr. Raji
Murray Melvin ... Lt. Phipps
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Additional Details

Runtime:
150 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (1976) | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | USA:PG
Filming Locations:
Malta more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
There was enormous controversy about the film being made in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Roger Moore was also heavily criticized for making Gold (1974) and The Wild Geese (1978) in South Africa during the apartheid era. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: During the church wedding scene the choir sings a hymn in Maltese (the filming location was Malta and the extras were mostly Maltese), although the story takes place in Portuguese African territory. more
Movie Connections:
Edited into 42nd Street Forever Part 4 (2009) (V) more

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Where can I purchase the original 147 minute, widescreen 2:35 : 1 anamorphic, panavision shot version of 'Shout At The Devil' ???
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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
The African Road Runner, 10 April 2007
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Shout at the Devil finds Lee Marvin in sub Sahara Africa in 1914 just before the start of World War I. He's a rollicking, live by your wits character named Flynn, very much similar to Humphrey Bogart's Charlie Allnut in The African Queen. Marvin takes up with an Englishman played by Roger Moore who's been stranded in Africa on his way to Australia.

Marvin has a running rivalry with the local German governor played with Teutonic relish by Reinhard Kolldehoff. He's the Road Runner to Kolldehoff's Wily Coyote. During the first half of the film, it plays just like a road runner cartoon.

When war is declared however, Kolldehoff crosses into British territory where Marvin has operated with sanctuary and exacts a terrible vengeance for being constantly made a fool of. On Marvin, on Moore, and on Barbara Parkins, Marvin's daughter who Moore has now married and had a child with.

This is World War I so the Germans aren't behaving like the Nazis of the second World War. But Kolldehoff you can see a potential recruit for Hitler in the post war years. In fact I don't think it's an accident that Kolldehoff and his character Fleischer look very much like German Field Marshal Ludendorff who was sympathetic to the early Nazi party.

Shout at the Devil is a broad comic adventure for the first half and turns serious in the second half. Moore and Marvin have a nice easy chemistry between them, Marvin is reaching back to his Cat Ballou days and the bag of scene stealing tricks he used to get an Oscar. Moore is hard pressed, but does keep up.

And who doesn't like a live road runner cartoon.

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