![]() A feature project was born, in which Noel Marshall would star as a researcher living among hundreds of wild cats, while Hedren and the kids would play the estranged wife and three grown children who come to visit him, only to find themselves running for their lives from hundreds of massive lions and tigers. She and her manager-turned-husband Noel Marshall returned home to Los Angeles from a trip to Africa with an idea inspired by a vision of an abandoned plantation house they’d seen overtaken by a pride of lions. Hedren, the star of Hitchcock’s The Birds and Marnie, had fallen in love with Africa and its wildlife in 1969 while shooting the film Satan’s Harvest. ![]() It was the 1970s: Born Free had blown up the box office and nabbed Oscar love and a sequel, and the animal-loving members of the Marshall-Hedren clan were game for embarking on a cinematic adventure together. No animals were harmed, but plenty of humans were. They were all in for the craziest family project in Hollywood history-co-starring with hundreds of wild lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards, and elephants in Roar, a film directed by their wild-eyed family patriarch, The Exorcist producer Noel Marshall. ![]() ![]() Narrowly escaping a snack time beheading by a lion with just a few bloody bites was par for the course for Marshall, who co-starred in Roar with his brother Jerry, their teenage stepsister Melanie Griffith (pre-Body Double and Something Wild), and her mother, Tippi Hedren. “The worst was when I got 56 stitches and it took six guys 25 minutes to get the lion off of me,” recalled John Marshall of the harrowing time he found his entire head trapped in the jaws of a male lion named Tongaru while filming 1981’s Roar, one of the most insanely ill-conceived animal adventures of all time and a serious front-runner for the most perilous home movie ever made. ![]()
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