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SHOUT AT THE DEVIL

Directed by PETER HUNT Screenplay by STANLEY PRICE,

ALASTAIR REID and WILBUR SMITH

Just after Shout at the Devil has got started and takes a second to catch its breath, the audience has already been treated to an elephant hunt in search of ivory, a bushwhacking, a crocodile attack, a ship ramming, several pratfalls and—this being colonial Africa and all—several glimpses of bare-breasted native women. Lee Marvin, playing a bibulous adventurer named Flynn, and Roger Moore, appearing as Sebastian Oldsmith, an entirely too credulous old Eton boy fallen on hard times, alternately flail away at and consort with each...

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