Tribute to Noel Marshall (April 18, 1931, Chicago -- June 30, 2010) He wrote, directed, co-produced and starred in the film Roar (1981), which also featured his then-wife Tippi Hedren, stepdaughter Melanie Griffith, and his sons Jerry and John from a previous marriage to Jaye Joseph. Roar was an accident-ridden film that featured tigers and lions. The film took eleven years and $17 million to make, and brought in only $2 million worldwide. Marshall, who was married to Hedren from 1964 to 1982, was also an executive producer on two of her films, Mr. Kingstreet's War and The Harrad Experiment (both 1973). One of his later films where he was credited as executive producer was A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), starring River Phoenix. Previously he was executive producer of The Exorcist. But his most remarkable film was undoubtedly 1981's Roar, a wildlife drama made whith his family and more than 100 lions, tigers, elephants and other wild animals. Both Marshall and Griffith were attacked by lions during filming. A passion project or a personal folly on an epic scale, Roar was made over several years on the family ranch in California and advertised with the tagline: "There's never been a film like Roar - and there never will be again". Marshall died of brain cancer on June 30, 2010.
(in News.Scotsman.com / Wikipedia)
Muisic by: Robert Hawk Florczak (Here we are in heden / Isn't it time) Roar the Soundtrack
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