Shout at the Devil

1976

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Thriller / War

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 32% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 3340 3.3K

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Plot summary

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher 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. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.


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Director

Top cast

Murray Melvin as Lt. Phipps
Roger Moore as Sebastian Oldsmith
Ian Holm as Mohammed, O'Flynn's Mute Servant
Lee Marvin as Colonel Flynn O'Flynn
720p.BLU
1.34 GB
1280*546
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
2 hr 29 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mark.waltz 5 / 10

A cinematic feast for the eyes; A challenge for the brain,

This film starts with a disclaimer that no animals were hurt during the making of it. They must have then found some pretty talented elephants to take direction of when to fall over as if they've been shot as Lee Marvin and Roger Moore go after their tusks. There are few other animal sequences in the film which mainly deals with Marvin and Moore trying to get away from some Germans in pre-World War I Africa, going down a river like Hepburn and Bogart in "The African Queen" and trapping the Germans chasing them with a net that gets tangled in the German's boat paddlewheel that stops them in their tracks.

A larger ship lunges after them and the boat is destroyed. The German officer aboard wants to blast them away, but the more civilized Captain with a British accent refuses and sends them down a giant plank of wood that they can float on for safety. Dangerous marshes ahead leads them to an island where Marvin knows the king, flirts with their daughters, and suddenly, they are back in civilization where they encounter Marvin's daughter, Barbara Parkins, whom Moore ends up marrying After a violent attack on their home, they set out to assassinate the culprit, leading to Moore ending up on a rickety two seater plane flying through a canyon and crashing down back where he started.

So while this is gorgeous to look at, the direction confounds everything going on, taking this down multiple minor plot lines and never really having one strong plot tying them together. It's more of an odd couple on an adventure story with Marvin and Moore, complete opposites, getting into all sorts of trouble while dealing with an old fashioned stereotypical German villain. Parkins has a good moment when she shoots a German officer over and over, the camera getting in closer with each shot she makes, which are quite a few. So while not a complete misfire and great to look at on a big screen, it is a misfire for its story and continuity in spite of some veteran film favorites.

Reviewed by bkoganbing 7 / 10

The African Road Runner

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.

Reviewed by Jeff (actionrating.com) 7 / 10

3.5 out of 5 action rating

See it- This superb actioner is very light-hearted, but packs quite a punch. Adventure meets war when hunters in Africa run into Germans during World War I. This underrated film starring Lee Marvin and Roger Moore has a recipe with just the right blend of comedy and action. But its Marvin who offers the lions share of the hilarity in the first half of the movie. The second half of the movie is much more serious, as the two main characters volunteer to go on a dangerous mission with the objective of blowing up a German battleship docked for repairs. To those who don't like this movie, I say, in the words of Lee Marvin, "See you in a minute…We'll shout at the devil together!" 3.5 action rating

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