# Yes, it is yet another ID this movie thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2014, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925 "2014-01-28T05:37:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/1 "2014-01-28T05:37:08Z")
OK so the movie had no big stars (that I recall), an I believe I saw it on HBO in the early 80s. It may even have been a made-for-TV movie though I think it might have been from a time before even HBO could produce it’s own material. It was one of those “based on a true story” type films - a family is living in an isolated estate somewhere in (presumably) Africa, and their ranch-house is beset by a pack of man-eating lions. Evidently the pack had tasted human flesh somewhere, developed a liking for it, and then decided to go after more people. So they lay siege to the house, which of course has no phone lines, and the family is trapped there for days. (NOTE - I could be wrong about it being in Africa, although I can’t think of how so many lions could possibly be roaming around freely anywhere else - especially if they were eating people. The family was all thoroughly lily whitebread and their ranch-house looked quite luxurious for a house that might exist on the African midland plains.) I remember the last third of the movie the best: the teenaged daughter and her boyfriend (who just conveniently got trapped with the family) are necking in one of the bedrooms and _WHAM_! the male lion pf the pack bursts through a window! The kids of course run out of the room and the family barricade the doors, but the rest of the pack all stalk in and make themselves at home inside the room to the sound of African drum music. The family - who have up until this point been sitting around waiting to be rescued - realize they have to make a getaway, before the lions break into the rest of the house. The family car is far across the front yard of the estate grounds, but they begin constructing a makeshift moving cage to shield them for their eventual trek to the car. While they are building it, a family friend comes to visit. He drives up near the house (not seeing the lions for some reason), gets out of his car and starts walking toward the front door. The family all gather at the front window and try to warn him away. No dice, as the male of the pack leaps on him and tears him to shreds. The family is devastated to see it, but none more so than the mother who takes it hardest. She goes into a room alone to cry, and hears a “mrrrow” from behind her. She spins around to see one of a female lion in the room with her. The mother flips out and starts throwing things at the lion, attacking it, until her husband rushes to the rescue and pulls her out of the room. At this point, the lion pack decide enough is enough and start breaking into the rest of the house en masse. The family all scramble under their makeshift defense cage that is only about 3 ft. high, so they all have to literally crawl out the front door, down the front step, and across the yard to their car. The lions all stalk the cage, climb all over it, and attempt to scratch, bite and tear at the family. The family however make it to the car, then drive away - and that is the end of the movie. Ring a bell anybody? ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/2 "2014-01-28T05:53:34Z")
[Savage Harvest](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083034/) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/3 "2014-01-28T12:59:33Z")
I’ve never heard of this movie, but the plot description sounds amazingly like the 1950s Z-movie **The Killer shrews** , which I grew up watching (and which was skewered on Mystery Science Theater 3000), right down to the Escape By Makeshift Tank at the end. > **[The Killer Shrews](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killer_Shrews)** > > The Killer Shrews is a 1959 American independent science fiction film directed by Ray Kellogg, and produced by Ken Curtis and Gordon McLendon. The story follows a group of researchers who are trapped in their remote island compound overnight by a hurricane and find themselves under siege by their abnormally large and venomous mutant test subjects. The film stars James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis, McLendon, Baruch Lumet and "Judge" Henry Dupree. > Shot outside of Dallas, Texas, it was produced b... I was astonished to see that a _sequel_ to The Killer Shrews came out a couple of years ago, with James Best reprising his role (he also co-wrote the screenplay), and with a couple of his Dukes of Hazzard actors in key roles. It’s also got bad CGI shrews in place of the puppies in carpet costumes. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/K-YLkHGK6wg/hqdefault.jpg "Return of the Killer Shrews Official Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-YLkHGK6wg) > **[Return of the Killer Shrews (2012) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832447/)** > > Return of the Killer Shrews: Directed by Steve Latshaw. With John Schneider, Bruce Davison, James Best, Jennifer Lyons. Fifty-three years after being attacked by killer shrews on a remote island, Captain Thorne Sherman is hired by a reality... ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/4 "2014-01-28T14:08:02Z")
Citizen Kane. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/5 "2014-01-28T18:54:38Z")
Rio ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/6 "2014-01-28T18:58:25Z")
Born Free? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/7 "2014-01-28T19:02:38Z")
Ben-Hur ? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/8 "2014-01-28T19:16:51Z")
OO OO I know this one because I remembered it too and just recently found it, and then my wife was like omg I remember images from that movie too! Roar(1981) > **[Roar (1981) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083001/)** > > Roar: Directed by Noel Marshall. With Tippi Hedren, Noel Marshall, Melanie Griffith, John Marshall. A naturalist living with big cats in East Africa expects a visit by his family of four from Chicago. A mix-up leaves him searching for his family, who... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/9 "2014-01-28T20:02:20Z")
> [@grude](#): > > OO OO > > I know this one because I remembered it too and just recently found it, and then my wife was like omg I remember images from that movie too! > > Roar(1981) > > [Roar (1981) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083001/) I looked at the link. The movie stars… _Tippi Hedren???!!!_ From Birds to Lions in only two decades. (And then back to birds – they included footage of her in the abysmally wonderful **Birdemic** ) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/10 "2014-01-29T03:11:07Z")
Sorry to disappoint you **Grude** , but from the IMDB listings, I believe **DMC** got it with “Savage Harvest.” Thanks! On the other hand, having read the IMDB listing for “Roar” and I am curious about that flick. Tippi Hedren and her daughter Melanie Griffith. A Steve Miller is listed in the credits, though surely that couldn’t be THE Steve Miller - the picker, joker, midnight toker, yadda yadda yadda. Melanie getting mauled by a lion on set and having to get reconstructive surgery, Tippi got injured, a flash flood nearly killing the lions, wow! What a troubled shoot, I’m amazed they pulled off a movie at all, even after 11 years. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/11 "2014-01-29T03:22:55Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Sorry to disappoint you **Grude** , but from the IMDB listings, I believe **DMC** got it with “Savage Harvest.” Thanks! > > On the other hand, having read the IMDB listing for “Roar” and I am curious about that flick. Tippi Hedren and her daughter Melanie Griffith. A Steve Miller is listed in the credits, though surely that couldn’t be THE Steve Miller - the picker, joker, midnight toker, yadda yadda yadda. Melanie getting mauled by a lion on set and having to get reconstructive surgery, Tippi got injured, a flash flood nearly killing the lions, wow! What a troubled shoot, I’m amazed they pulled off a movie at all, even after 11 years. After reading about everything that happened during the making of that film, it sounds like everyone involved is lucky to be alive! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/12 "2014-01-29T04:57:30Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I looked at the link. The movie stars… _Tippi Hedren???!!!_ Hey, that’s nothing. It was co-written by Ted Cassidy, aka Lurch. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/13 "2014-01-29T05:22:40Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > On the other hand, having read the IMDB listing for “Roar” and I am curious about that flick. Tippi Hedren and her daughter Melanie Griffith. A Steve Miller is listed in the credits, though surely that couldn’t be THE Steve Miller - the picker, joker, midnight toker, yadda yadda yadda. Melanie getting mauled by a lion on set and having to get reconstructive surgery, Tippi got injured, a flash flood nearly killing the lions, wow! What a troubled shoot, I’m amazed they pulled off a movie at all, even after 11 years. Also interesting is that Tippi (and Melanie as she was still a kid) had a [pet lion at home](http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/02/22/oh-dont-mind-our-pet-lion/). ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-it-is-yet-another-id-this-movie-thread/679925/14 "2014-01-29T19:40:16Z")
And apparently you can watch [Savage Harves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQB_dGAD49Q&list=PLD8555276F3F114BB)t in its entirety on YouTube.