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Jul 12, 2023 · With Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part 1 finally here—and Tom Cruise ready to confirm his status as the most indestructible A-lister in motion picture history— The A.V. Club decided to rank...
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2. Kirk Douglas Actor | The Final Countdown . Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...
Michelle Yeoh. Colin Follenweider. Richard Bradshaw. Wendy Leech. Jackie Chan. Buster Keaton. Vic Armstrong. Dar Robinson. 10. Sir Eddie Kidd. British stuntman Eddie Kidd is so revered in the industry that he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, and he now goes by the handle “Sir Eddie Kidd.”
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- Police Story (1985): Pole Slide. Jackie Chan, Police Story (1985): Jackie Chan goes down of the poll | Stunt Scene. While it doesn’t involve horses, flying vehicles, or bungee cords, there’s arguably no stunt more beautifully performed than Jackie Chan’s pole slide from several stories in Police Story’s climatic mall fight that results in an explosion of light bulbs and sugar glass.
- Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation (2015): Clinging to the Plane. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) - Ethan Catches a Plane Scene (1/10) | Movieclips.
- Ben-Hur (1959): Chariot Race. Ben-Hur (3/10) Movie CLIP - The Chariot Race (1959) HD. Two decades after he wowed audiences in Stagecoach, Yakima Canutt took on the task of overseeing the stunts in the 1959 Biblical epic, Ben-Hur.
- Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018): Helicopter Chase. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) - Helicopter Collision Scene (9/10) | Movieclips. Believe it or not, Tom Cruise did not know how to fly a helicopter before Mission: Impossible—Fallout’s climatic stunt that saw Hunt flying through mountainous terrain at a high altitude and then performing a corkscrew dive while chasing after his adversary, August Walker (Henry Cavill).
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- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- The Empire Strikes Back
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- Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
- Deliverance
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- The Matrix Reloaded
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Poo Cocktail Supremeis the title of this sketch from Johnny Knoxville’s degenerate pals. It features Steve-O strapped into a portable toilet. This is then catapulted into the air and bounces up and down on bungee cords, emptying the loo’s contents all over him. Ah, cinema!
SS Rajamouli’s Telugu-language epic won this year’s Hollywood Critics Association’s prize for best stunts. Any number of the film’s bonkers set pieces might have qualified for the award, not least a jaw-dropping forest scene in which NT Rama Rao Jr heaves at the ropes keeping a ravenous tiger in a net.
In Michael Curtiz’s Technicolor romp, Robin (Errol Flynn) escapes from the sheriff’s men in typically swashbuckling style. After riding to one of Nottingham’s city gates, he hacks through the rope holding up the portcullis. The portcullis descends, trapping his pursuers, and Robin is hoisted up the gatehouse wall.
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber duelconcludes with Luke (Mark Hamill) being sucked backwards through a broken window by a vacuum. Or does it? In fact, Colin Skeaping, Hamill’s stunt double, somersaulted through the window, but it’s so cleverly framed and edited that you would never know.
Patricia Peters doubled for Michelle Pfeiffer in many of Catwoman’s rubber-suited acrobatic routines, but it was Pfeiffer herself who decapitated four mannequins with a swishing whip, and then used it as a skipping rope. In a behind-the-scenes clip, the crew bursts into cheers and applause.
Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) is limping towards the chocolate factory’s gates when he appears to collapse. But then Wilder turns the fall into a forward roll, and springs to his feet. “I knew from that time on, no one would know if I was lying or telling the truth,” saidWilder.
The shots of the actors canoeing along a wild river are hair-raising enough, but then Burt Reynolds chooses to fling himself down the rocky rapids, instead of letting a stuntman or a dummy take the fall – yikes! He cracked his coccyxin the process.
The fifth Indiana Jones film is almost upon us, and yet the franchise’s most memorable scene remains the one in the opening minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indy chased down a tunnel by a giant rolling boulder, leaping to safety through a curtain of spider webs
The so-called “scorpion kick” was invented for The Matrix Reloaded by Yuen Woo-ping and executed, after six months of training, by Carrie-Anne Moss. Basically, she leans forward and swings one leg over her own head. It’s probably the least practical way to kick someone, but definitely one of the most spectacular.
Blake Edwards’ Pink Panther comedies have a wealth of Bond-worthy stunts, the most delightful of which comes when Clouseau demonstrates why he was once known as “the Pavlova of the Parallels”, and a crafty cut allows Peter Sellers to be swapped for a stuntman.
Jan 23, 2023 · 1. The chariot race in ‘Ben-Hur’ (1959) – picked by Vic Armstrong. Not only do they not make them like stunt legend Vic Armstrong anymore, they rarely make movies like the ones he made his name...
Sep 4, 2018 · Michael Stillwell. Movies are make believe, but that doesn't mean its most daring stunts any less dangerous. We've collected and ranked our 25 favorite stunts, giving due deference to the stunt...
