![]() ![]() A big, exuberant mess, and it was a nearly ruinous one. (Or you’re a Hitchcock completist and enjoy imagining how The Birds might have been different had the director been an enthusiastic birder and done his movie as Crows, Crows and More Crows.) If you’ve seen Roar, it’s because you’re a fan of big cats and movies about big cats, or because you’re a Hedren-Griffith completist and get a thrill from hearing Tippi utter a suburban movie-mom line like “Help your sister” to a teenage boy as Melanie is being dragged off by a 400-pound lion. Roar’s working title was Lions, Lions and More Lions, and that’s a fair summary what the movie’s about: Lions, lions and more lions, and tigers, and then, as long as we’re here, why not some jaguars and cheetahs and cougars and leopards, too? There’s some pretense at a plot - a scientist is making a study of big cats in Africa his family comes for a visit he’s not home when they arrive and so they run from room to room and up and down stairs under the threat of the lions, lions and more lions until he comes home poachers encroach - but really, it doesn’t matter. When it was fall, one of the stepsons climbed a ladder to spray-paint the leaves of the trees green again. In addition to playing the lead role, Hedren’s husband, Noel Marshall, acted as the movie’s writer, producer and director. (A third stepson worked behind the scenes.) It was a complete family production, filmed at their canyon ranch in Acton, out toward the desert from Burbank and Chatsworth. It came out in 1981 and starred Hedren along with her then-husband, two of her stepsons and her daughter Melanie Griffith. Less likely is that you’ve seen another movie she was in called Roar. ![]() Of course you know Tippi Hedren from The Birds. Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith on the set of Roar. ![]()
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