article_snippet.sent: Melanie Griffith, aged just 14, leaps into the swimming pool in Melanie Griffith Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, home as Melanie Griffith playfights with Melanie Griffith enormous pet lion, Neil .
article_snippet.sent: You’re fine with lions and tigers as long as you do
article_snippet.sent: I had to work with a lion pouncing on him on and off for five years because we kept running out of money.'
article_snippet.sent: The film’s cinematographer, Jan de Bont – who later went on to direct Die Hard – required 220 stitches after Hedren was scalped by a lion.
article_snippet.sent: Now aged 84, Griffith still keeps lions .
article_snippet.sent: lions were harmed during the making of The film, however.
highlights_snippet.sent: Injuries to the crew included a broken leg, gangrene and large wounds, with James needing six men to pull a lion off James at one point .