In 1976, Roger Moore starred in Shout at the Devil, a war adventure set in German East Africa between 1913 and 1515. Filmed in Malta and controversial for apartheid South Africa. The new James Bond star was fresh out of The Man with the Golden Gun, but little did he know he’d be dealing with a co-star who was seriously intoxicated on a number of occasions during filming.
Moore played Sebastian Goldsmith opposite Colonel Flynn Patrick Lee Marvin, and the two actors made it happen.
A 1985 Bond star biographer shared that he once said, “I love this gentleman. Thanks to him I gave the best performance ever. I can only be as good as the other guy. Working with Lee Marvin pushes you up, forces you to try to get to his level.”
Satanic director Peter Hunt recalls: “They were very funny and loved each other very much. They communicated with each other and got drunk together in the evening, although they did not have thick heads in the morning.”
The difference was though, Moore knew when to stop.
Speaking with Yahoo in 2014, Moore said of Marvin: “One of the things is that Lee had a little problem with alcohol… Twice in the movie, he went into controversy, and there was a sequence where in the movie his daughter appears as a kid, and my character is the father. He came and he was really good, and he had this scene where he had to pick up the baby. He wasn’t holding her well and he was shivering, so I thought he was going to drop her. In my reverse shots, I get anxious, I was really worried. I was freaked out that he was going to drop this baby. .The child was screaming but when I grabbed him, it was quiet. I think he inhaled it, and his breath was 99 percent pure alcohol.”
However, what about their fight rumors? Has that already happened?
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It turns out that Marvin still hates the Japanese because of his World War II experiences in the Pacific theater. “Roger is built like granite,” Moore commented, laughing, “Well, we had a hell of a fight over the movie, which is so beautifully arranged and designed.”
Marvin died of heart at just 63 years old in 1987 and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Sir Roger Moore died five years ago in 2017 after suffering from lung and liver cancer. He was 89 years old.
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