10/24/2023 0 Comments Shout classics wild at heartIndeed, there’s an underlying darkness to the entire affair, even when the direction of Peter R. Moore’s Oldsmith is generally an unwitting participant in violence and exploitation of any kind, except when his love interest Rosa O’Flynn (daughter of the elder O’Flynn, played by Barbara Perkins) is threatened, however when pushed in the right direction his benevolence is gone and there is nothing he won’t do for revenge. In Shout at the Devil, Paint Your Wagon‘s Lee Marvin easily and disturbingly morphs into The Big Red One‘s Lee Marvin, while Cannoball Run Roger Moore is replaced by the coldly (if righteously) violent Roger Moore from The Man with the Golden Gun. Shout at the Devil can be every bit as farcical as any of Roger Moore’s James Bond films, and Lee Marvin’s characterization of O’Flynn is every bit as absurdly fun as anything he did in Cat Ballou or Paint Your Wagon, but at the flip of an invisible switch both Shout at the Devil and its stars take a turn for the incredibly dark. Marvin and Moore maintained such a classic chemistry in this pulpy action / adventure that they follow each other’s lead step-by-step, whether undertaking a silly misadventure, engaging in a drunken fistfight (which must be seen to be believed) or fighting side-by-side in a deadly-serious gunfight, they’re always in lock-step and two sides of the same coin, even and especially when at odds with each other. What starts as a jaunt up the river in German-controlled East Africa for ivory soon runs the duo afoul of the nasty and cowardly German Commander Herman Fleischer (Reinhard “Rene” Kolldehoff), who dogs their escapades at almost every turn and ultimately creates a serious vendetta.Īs much as Fleischer is a valid foil for O’Flynn and Oldsmith, so are O’Flynn and Oldsmith for each other. Marvin plays Irish American roughneck Flynn Patrick O’Flynn, who cons Roger Moore’s Sebastian “Bassy” Oldsmith into accompanying him on an ivory poaching run that goes South in a New York minute. A lot of the distracting fun in Shout at the Devil comes from the film’s star, the tough-as-granite Lee Marvin, who is at his goofiest since Paint your Wagon.
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