Stunt

:This article is about stunt performance. For other uses of the term, see Stunt (disambiguation).

Some notable movie stunts

• Steamboat Bill, Jr.

The front of a house falls down with Buster Keaton standing in the exact position of an open window, leaving him unharmed. His stone-faced expression remains.

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• Ben-Hur

Joe Canutt Judah Ben-Hur rides his chariot over the wreck of a competitor.

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• The Great Escape

Pursued by Germans, Bud Ekins as Capt. Virgil ?The Cooler King? Hilts jumps his motorcycle 60 feet over a barbed-wire fence... but doesn?t quite make it to safety.

Related Topics:
Bud Ekins - Motorcycle

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• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Trapped by the Superposse, Butch and Sundance leap off a cliff into raging waters knowing that the ?fall will probably kill ?.

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• Papillon

Papillion makes his final bid for freedom by leaping from a cliff into the sea. Dar Robinson doubled for Steve McQueen, his first major stunt in a Hollywood film.

Related Topics:
Dar Robinson - Steve McQueen - Hollywood

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• Live and Let Die

Russ Kananga as James Bond uses four crocodiles as stepping stones to reach safety on the other side. Kananga, who owned the crocodile farm seen in the film, and after whom the main villain is named, did the stunt five times wearing the same crocodile skin shoes as his character had chosen to wear. During the fourth attempt, the last crocodile bit through the shoe and into his foot. The fifth attempt is one seen on film, with the tied-down crocodiles snapping at his feet as he passes over them.

Related Topics:
Russ Kananga - James Bond - Crocodiles

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• Live and Let Die

In the same film, Jerry Comeaux as James Bond jumps his speedboat 70 feet over a police car, a record that remained for 15 years.

Related Topics:
Jerry Comeaux - James Bond

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• The Man with the Golden Gun

?Bumps? Williard as James Bond leaps a broken bridge and spins around 360 degrees in flight. Willard was paid £30, 000 for the stunt, which was held under Eon copyright for several years afterwards.

Related Topics:
?Bumps? Williard - James Bond - Eon - Copyright

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• The Man who Would Be King

A major character dies when the rope bridge he is standing on is cut. British stuntman Joe Powell volunteered for the stunt after the rest of the stuntmen came down with a mysterious ailment. He fell 80 feet onto cardboard boxes balanced on the edge of a ravine. If he had missed the boxes, no safety wire or parachute would have stopped him falling to the bottom of the ravine. Making the situation more dangerous was the rope bridge, which caused Powell to spin as he fell.

Related Topics:
British - Stuntman - Joe Powell

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• The Spy who Loved Me

Rick Sylvester playing James Bond escapes the bad guys by skiing off a cliff in the Austrian Alps (actually Mount Asgard in the Arctic Circle) then releasing a parachute. Sylvester waited two weeks for the weather atop Mount Asgard to change. Finally he had a 15 minute window to make the jump. Five cameras were meant to record the stunt, but only the master shot worked. Sylvester was allegedly paid $100,000 for the stunt. As he falls, watch one of his skis hit the parachute on its way down. It shows just how dangerous the stunt really was.

Related Topics:
Rick Sylvester - James Bond - Skiing - Austrian Alps - Mount Asgard - Arctic Circle

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• Hooper

A.J. Bakunas as Hollywood stuntman Hooper leaps from a helicopter onto an airbag 232 feet below, a record that remains to this day.

Related Topics:
A.J. Bakunas - Hollywood - Stuntman

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• Highpoint

The hero fights the villain atop the world?s tallest freestanding structure, Toronto?s CN Tower, and the villain loses. Doubling the villain was the legendary Dar Robinson who opened his parachute just 300 feet from the ground after a fall lasting six seconds. Robinson was paid $100, 000.

Related Topics:
Toronto - CN Tower - Dar Robinson

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• Conan the Barbarian

Corrie Jansen leaps 182 feet from a cliff, a record freefall for a woman.

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• Raiders of the Lost Ark

Indiana Jones climbs underneath a moving truck and is dragged along behind it before climbing back on board. The stunt was performed by Terry Leonard.

Related Topics:
Indiana Jones - Terry Leonard

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• Smokey and the Bandit II

Smokey leaps his Trans-Am motorcar from the back of trailer, setting a record that remains to this day.

Related Topics:
Trans-Am - Motorcar

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• Sharky?s Machine

Sharky (Burt Reynolds) punches the villain through the window of the Hyatt Regeny in Atlanta. To achieve the affect, Dar Robinson ran at the window, then at the last moment, spun around to go backwards through the glass and land on an airbag. It is the highest fall (220 feet) from a building without a cable or parachute.

Related Topics:
Burt Reynolds - Hyatt Regeny - Atlanta - Dar Robinson - Airbag

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• Blue Thunder

Renegade cop Roy Scheider, flying the state-of the-art ?Blue Thunder? helicopter, is chased by a police helicopter down L.A.?s storm drains, weaving between the varying support legs until his pursuer eventually crashes.

Related Topics:
Roy Scheider - Helicopter - Police - L.A. - Storm drains

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• Romancing the Stone

Jeannie Epper and Terry Leonard as Joan Wilder and Jack Colton leap from a car as it falls over an 80 foot waterfall.

Related Topics:
Jeannie Epper - Terry Leonard

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• Back to the Future

During the skateboard chase, Marty McFly runs over the top of Biff Tannen?s convertible and rejoins his skateboard on the other side.

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• Stick

The incomparable Dar Robinson asked to play the part of the albino killer in this Burt Reynolds directed Elmore Leonard adaptation so the audience would be more shocked by the villain?s death. Without cutting away, Robinson was filmed falling backwards off a hotel balcony emptying his revolver at Reynolds? as he fell. A thin cable ran up Robinson?s leg to a harness around his waist to arrest his fall just feet off the ground.

Related Topics:
Dar Robinson - Albino - Burt Reynolds - Elmore Leonard

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• The Living Daylights

This was the third variation on a stunt that had appeared first in Moonraker and then in Octopussy; James Bond battles a bad guy while they are both hanging outside a plane. In this case, Bond and the villainous Necros fight as they cling to a cargo net filled with bags of opium hanging out the rear of a Soviet cargo plane. All three stunt sequences were done with ace parachustists Jake Lombard and B.J. Worth. Lombard, who had previously doubled for Roger Moore, took the part of Necros here, while Worth finally got to play Bond by doubling Timothy Dalton.

Related Topics:
Moonraker - Octopussy - James Bond - Plane - Soviet - Parachustists - Jake Lombard - B.J. Worth - Roger Moore - Timothy Dalton

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• Amsterdamned

Nick Gillard as Eric Visser jumps his speedboat over a bridge in Amsterdam, breaking the record previously set by Live and Let Die.

Related Topics:
Nick Gillard - Amsterdam - Live and Let Die

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• "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Vic Armstrong as Indiana Jones rides his horse onto a ledge and jumps onto a moving Nazi tank.

Related Topics:
Vic Armstrong - Indiana Jones - Nazi - Tank

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The killer robot T-1000 flies a helicopter in a freeway chase after a S.W.A.T. van driven by The Terminator and at one point flies under an overpass. As if to prove the stunt was done for real, the pilot attempts a second underpass, but flies away at the last second.

Related Topics:
Robot - S.W.A.T. - The Terminator

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• Cliffhanger

Corrupt Treasury agent Travers hijacks a jet carrying $100 million, then slides down a cable to the villains? Learjet. British stuntman Simon Crane performed the stunt. When the film?s budget could not afford the one million dollars needed to complete the sequence, lead actor Sylvester Stallone agreed to cut his salary by the same amount.

Related Topics:
Treasury agent - Learjet - British - Simon Crane - Sylvester Stallone

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• Speed

Billy Morts as L.A.P.D. cop Jack Traven rips the door of a Jaguar sports car then leaps to the open door of a speeding bus, his feet scraping against the ground.

Related Topics:
Billy Morts - L.A.P.D. - Cop - Jaguar

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• GoldenEye

Wayne Michaels as James Bond bunjee jumps over a dam to break into a Russian chemical weapons factory. Michaels reached 100 miles per hour during the jump and came perilously close to the sloping surface of the dam, which was studded with irons struts that could have torn him to pieces. The stunt was further complicated as Bond had to take out a gun during the fall, which threw Michaels off trajectory.

Related Topics:
Wayne Michaels - James Bond - Bunjee jumps - Dam - Russian - Chemical weapons

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• The World is Not Enough

Echoing The Man with the Golden Gun, Gary Powell as James Bond leaps his boat in a 360 degree spin, wrecking a gun emplacement on the bad girl?s boat.

Related Topics:
The Man with the Golden Gun - Gary Powell - James Bond - Boat

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