a5c7b9f00b Just prior to World War One the hard drinking sharpshooting, Irish American Colonel Flynn O&#39;Flynn, uses British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith to help poach ivory from German controlled territory in East Africa, putting them at odds with Herman Fleischer, the local German Provincial Commander. When Sebastian is infected with malaria he is nursed back to health by Flynn&#39;s daughter Rosa, they fall in love and marry. Not long after Britain declares war on Germany and they are drawn into the conflict, ultimately making a daring attack on the German armored cruiser SMS Blücherit undergoes repairs in a local estuary. During World War I, a British aristocrat, an American entrepreneur, and the latter&#39;s attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battlecruiser, which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. Then watch &quot;Shout at the Devil.&quot; There are other reasons, all good ones.<br/><br/>Shot in 1976, thus with better quality film and presentation, &quot;Shout at the Devil&quot; isn&#39;t a remake of &quot;African Queen&quot;. <br/><br/>It has more of everything you want in a frontier war adventure; - more romance (between a British adventurer played by Roger Moore and the daughter of Lee Marvin&#39;s seamy ivory poacher, given complex, sympathetic life by Barbara Parkins) and - more explosions and pitched battles; more heart-wrenching tragedy and suspense; <br/><br/>Only the finely balanced banter between Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart which made their earlier film still stand outthe definite classic compared with this later effort is missing. <br/><br/>But it&#39;s still a very, very good film and rewards its viewer well.<br/><br/>In this film, the work Humphrey Bogart didboth comic and romantic lead is split between Lee Marvinthe nearly completely unprincipled Col. Flynn O&#39;Flynn (a self-commissioned Irish-American ivory poacher) and Roger Moore,unfortunate British gentleman Sebastian Oldsmith.<br/><br/>Oldsmith is Shanghaied by O&#39;Flynn and his equally unscrupulous batman Mohammed into being everything from being a poorly paid &quot;partner&quot; to an aerial observer in a rickety 1914-model aircraft to reconnoiter over enemy territory, to finally become the central character in the movie&#39;s spine-tingling denouement.<br/><br/>This film has everything for fans of high adventure - suspense, tragedy, moments of wild comedy, and characterizations that go beyond the standard formula fare. <br/><br/>&quot;Shout at the Devil&quot; is better than average for a Lee Marvin feature; maybe not up to &quot;Tell it to the Spartans&quot; or &quot;Cat Ballou,&quot; but definitely a worthy addition to an adventure movie fan&#39;s collection. Shout at the Devil finds Lee Marvin in sub Sahara Africa in 1914 just before the start of World War I. He&#39;s a rollicking, live by your wits character named Flynn, very much similar to Humphrey Bogart&#39;s Charlie Allnut in The African Queen. Marvin takes up with an Englishman played by Roger Moore who&#39;s been stranded in Africa on his way to Australia.<br/><br/>Marvin has a running rivalry with the local German governor played with Teutonic relish by Reinhard Kolldehoff. He&#39;s the Road Runner to Kolldehoff&#39;s Wily Coyote. During the first half of the film, it plays just like a road runner cartoon.<br/><br/>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&#39;s daughter who Moore has now married and had a child with.<br/><br/>This is World War I so the Germans aren&#39;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&#39;t think it&#39;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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>And who doesn&#39;t like a live road runner cartoon.
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