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A family filmed with untrained lions and most of the crew got hurt

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 30, 2026
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Roar 1981 film — Press Association Photos / Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)
Roar 1981 film — Press Association Photos / Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons)

In 1969, filming in Mozambique, Tippi Hedren watched lions take over a house that people had just abandoned and decided it should be a movie. She and her husband Noel Marshall began taking in rescued big cats and living with them at their California ranch, then cast themsel…

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