A family filmed with untrained lions and most of the crew got hurt
She and her husband Noel Marshall began taking in rescued big cats and living with them at their California ranch, then cast themselves, her daughter Melanie Griffith and his two sons in Roar, shot with untrained lions, tigers and leopards in nearly every scene. One estimate has at least 70 of the 140-person crew hurt; John Marshall later said the number was over 100. Griffith needed 50 sutures after a lioness attacked her, and doctors feared she would lose an eye.
- ▪She and her husband Noel Marshall began taking in rescued big cats and living with them at their California ranch, then cast themselves, her daughter Melanie Griffith and his two sons in Roar, shot with untrained lions, tigers and leopards
- ▪One estimate has at least 70 of the 140-person crew hurt; John Marshall later said the number was over 100.
- ▪Griffith needed 50 sutures after a lioness attacked her, and doctors feared she would lose an eye.
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A family filmed with untrained lions and most of the crew got hurt Ellsworth Toohey 4:15 am Thu Jul 30, 2026 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 themselves, her daughter Melanie Griffith and his two sons in Roar, shot with untrained lions, tigers and leopards in nearly every scene. Filming ran five years. One estimate has at least 70 of the 140-person crew hurt; John Marshall later said the number was over 100.
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