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Shout At The Devil (Widescreen) (DVD)
Based on the Wilbur Smith novel, Lee Marvin and Roger Moore team up to protect their ivory-poaching business against a German official in pre-WW1 Zanzibar.
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2 in 1 Eagle in The Sky & Shout At the Devil
author: Smith Wilbur; publisher: Pan
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Prism Leisure Corporation Shout At The Devil [1976]
<I>Shout at the Devil</I> was Roger Moore's second starring role in an adaptation of one Wilbur Smith's bestselling African adventures (the first being 1974's <I>Gold</I>, also directed by Peter Hunt). Taking its mixture of comedy and drama, and part of its plot, from <I>The African Queen</I> the movie finds Moore's decent, upright Englishman teamed with Lee Marvin--in a variation on his <I>Cat Ballou</I> drunken brawler comedy persona--fighting the Germans in colonial East Africa at the beginning of the Great War. Moore plays it straight and makes a most heroic and handsome matinee idol hero. Produced between Moore's second and third outings as Bond, <I>Shout at the Devil</I> was staffed with various 007 regulars, including Hunt who was had edited the first three and directed <I>On Her Majesty's Secret Service</I>, title designer Maurice Binder and director John Glen. It even has a ticking clock-gigantic explosion finale. This is an exciting, beautifully shot escapade which deserves to be much better known. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> The original Panavision 2.35:1 image is incorrectly letterboxed at around 2:1, cropping so much picture information that the credits disappear at either side of the screen. The print used is of very variable quality, with some scenes looking fine, others washed out and lacking detail, with long shots often being slightly out of focus. Adding to the problems is the abysmal digital encoding which, despite anamorphic enhancement, has left many scenes swarming with compression artefacts. The sound is adequate mono. Unfortunately this disc uses a heavily re-edited and shortened version of the film--cut from 147 to 119 minutes following poor reviews--and the losses in continuity, especially in the early part of the film are very noticeable. The extras are the original trailer, which reveals the entire plot right up to and including the ending, comprehensive filmographies of Marvin, Moore and Hunt, and a seven-minute compilation of posters and publicity stills set to the main themes from Maurice Jarre's score. <I>--Gary S Dalkin</I>
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Pan Shout at the Devil
Pages: 352, Paperback, Pan
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Shout at the Devil
First published in 1968, a reissued thriller set in German East Africa on the eve of the First World War, where two freebooting adventurers, one British and one American, find that the war allows their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta. From the author of THE SEVENTH SCROLL. author: Smith, Wilbur; publisher: Pan Bks.
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Shout at the Devil
A flamboyant Irish-American and an impeccable young Englishman pit their wits against the gross German commissioner from whose territory they make their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. The start of World War I raises their private skirmishing to violent vendetta, pursued on land and sea. author: Smith, Wilbur; publisher: Macmillan Audio Books
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Pan Shout at the Devil
Pages: 400, Hardcover, Pan
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