Roar (1981)

Jerry Marshall and a friend in Roar, courtesy of Drafthouse Films. – Credit: C/O

Roar is the story of a family — including Tippi Hedren and real-life daughter Melanie Griffith — stalked by lions and tigers on an African nature preserve. It was supposed to be a comedy.

When it was finally released in the United States in 2015 — nearly 40 years after it began its five-year, accident-filled shoot — savvy distribution company Drafthouse Films used the tagline, “No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Film. Seventy Cast and Crew Members Were.”

The making of Roar was the subject of a terrific episode of Dan Delgado’sThe Industry podcast, which featured the son of director Noel Marshall and other Roar veterans who explained everything that went wrong on the shoot.

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