<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $9,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> £ 15 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Shout at the Devil is a 1976 British war adventure film directed by Peter R. Hunt and starring Lee Marvin and Roger Moore . The film, set in Zanzibar and German East Africa in 1913--1915, is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith which is very loosely inspired by real events (see the sinking of the SMS Königsberg). The supporting cast features Barbara Parkins and Ian Holm . </P> <P> Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Lee Marvin), a hard - drinking American, manipulates British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith (Roger Moore) into helping poach ivory in Tanganyika, which is part of the German - controlled pre-World War I territory of German East Africa . On hearing news that the American has returned, Herman Fleischer, the local German Commander of the Southern Provinces, relentlessly hunts O'Flynn with his Schutztruppen (colonial troops). </P>

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