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. I feel I should mention that the version of &quot;Shout at the Devil&quot; that I watched was the full length 150 minute version. When the movie originally played in theaters, it had been cut by about half an hour. Normally, I feel that the original full length version of a movie is the version to see, but in the case of this movie, I think that the edited version might play better. I&#39;m not saying that the full length version is bad, but I&#39;m saying that it&#39;s too long for its own good. There is quite a considerable amount of padding on display, anda result the movie moves quite slowly at times. There are some good things along the way all the same - there is some good action and suspense, the African backdrop is colorful and catches the eye, and it&#39;s fun to see Lee Marvin and Roger Moore paired up and generate considerable chemistry. So it&#39;s nowhere near a total loss. All the same, I think a more snappy pace would have helped things considerably. Shout at the devil proved to be a bit of a surprise to me, I expected a boring war film, but I was very positively surprised.<br/><br/>The film starred my favorite actor Roger Moore and he delivered a good performance. At 49 he looks extremely handsome, like he did in all the Bond films, Moore is an outstanding actor. Lee Marwin also starred an outstanding performance in all aspects of the movie.<br/><br/>The film was directed by Peter Hunt who also directed On Her Majesty`s Secret Service (1969), he proved then he could make a great action adventure, and he did so again. With great action sequences and some very good humour delivered brilliantly from Marwin and Moore.<br/><br/>Shout at the Devil proves to be one of the finest films of the seventies.
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