Roar
A household truly bursting with prides
Tippi Hedren followed her signature animal-attack thriller, The Birds, by starring in Roar, a delusional, life-threatening disaster featuring more than 150 lions, tigers, cheetahs, and one particularly cranky elephant named Timbo. Did director Noel Marshall put his leading lady (and wife) through an even worse ordeal than Alfred Hitchcock by spending years filming her and his two sons fleeing very real predators? And did a childhood that included facial reconstruction surgery and being flung off a roof in a barrel somehow prepare Melanie Griffith to become an Oscar-nominated star? Scream the safety word “Donate” to find out now!
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