Shout At The Devil
(1976)
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Two self-styled African empire builders (Lee Marvin and Roger Moore) set out to annex a large part of the German territory in WWI Africa. After one of them (Moore) falls in love with the other's daughter (Barbara Parkins), all three set out on a dangerous quest for glory and revenge. |
This mixture of the rough (Lee Marvin) and the smooth (Roger Moore) wasn't such a good idea, even if the oddball partnership was supposed to be for king and country in the First World War. Based on a Wilbur Smith novel, the tale follows the undynamic duo as they set out to sabotage a German cruiser berthed in an East African delta. There's more action — rampaging natives, rape, malaria, ticking time bombs — than you'd expect, but, as neither hero is very likeable, you really don't care. Moore did better in a similar role when he teamed with Tony Curtis for The Persuaders TV series.
Halliwell's Film Guide
The main characters are respectively repellent, effete, and just plain nasty, but the action scenes are vivid and the production is mainly notable as an expensive old-fashioned British film made at a time when there were few British films of any kind.