A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl. A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show. The Stunt Man A fugitive's arrival on a movie set results in a stunt man's death prompting the director to offer the man safety in exchange for stunts. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for The Stunt Man [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Original Soundtrack on AllMusic View production, box office, & company info. The Stunt Man (1980) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Eli, descending as usual from heaven on his crane, explains that he wouldn't let Lucky run off thinking that Eli was trying to kill him (and not incidentally leaving the film incomplete). The Stunt Man remains a fantastic piece of cinema — most films don’t hold your attention beneath a commentary track, but the cast and choices made … Was this review helpful to you? (He's in the Duesenberg with the windows rolled up and mistakes a question about the on-board camera for his cue.) Murder and mayhem ensue. While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. [3] As O'Toole remarked in a DVD audio commentary, "The film wasn't released. In the wee hours of the morning before the shoot, Lucky and Nina have a heart-to-heart in the set shop and Lucky finally tells his story. Children's Pool Beach - 850 Coast Boulevard, La Jolla, California, USA. But he surely … [2] The film was adapted by Lawrence B. Marcus and Rush from the 1970 novel of the same name by Paul Brodeur. "The Stunt Man" is a game of its own, played through the fantasy of filmmaking, and half the fun of watching the movie comes from sharing the stuntman's paranoid confusion. The cop was knocked out and spent several hours with his head in the ice cream, which didn't kill him but resulted in frostbite damage to his nose and ear and an attempted murder charge for Cameron, who's been on the run ever since. Lots of interviews, including one with O'Toole and a very peculiar - almost two-hour (!) He portrays Eli Cross as a god of sorts. He offers Cameron a job, explaining that their last stunt man just ran a car off a bridge. A wheelchair-bound mad scientist plots to revive the Third Reich. This FAQ is empty. "[3] Columbia executives then rejected the script, saying it was difficult to find a genre to place it in. He meets Katherine, and the man he is replacing, ... See full summary », While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. I've watched it twice with some friends since, but they weren't very enthusiastic about it, so I can imagine that for many people it won't pay off. (To film part of the wing-walking scene, they tether the plane to the ground and fly in circles at an altitude of about 6 feet.) Lucky emerges, gasping, from the river and notices that there were divers in the water with him all the time. The Stunt Man received three Oscar nominations: The Stunt Man was released on DVD on November 20, 2001 in two versions by Anchor Bay Entertainment. “The Stunt Man,” starring Peter O’Toole and Barbara Hershey, required the construction of a fake tower atop the hotel’s iconic Victorian roof, followed by a dramatic explosion. Lucky learns stunt work under the tutelage of Chuck (Charles Bail), the stunt coordinator; there's some cool detail about how stunts are pulled off. The director, Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole), descends from the sky on his camera crane. After viewing The Stunt Man director François Truffaut labeled Richard Rush his “favorite American director.” Also, his work on Color of Night starring Bruce Willis and how he finally claimed his director’s cut of the film. Unbeknownst to Lucky, Chuck has planted an explosive in one of the Duesenberg's front tires to make the car's tumble off the bridge look more realistic. However, due to its limited release, it never earned much attention from audiences at large. "How tall was King Kong?" Los Angeles Times 3 July 1971: a9. This is his second entrance from on high; Eli is the same man who stared at Cameron from the helicopter. Documentary about the making of this 1980 action/drama about a fugitive hiding out as a movie stuntman. ‘THE STUNT MAN’ approaches a career best for Peter O'Toole, which, for an actor of his stature, is saying something. A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests. Lucky, though furious -- not for the first time -- at Eli's high-handed manipulations, is amused in spite of himself and giddy with relief at surviving. Cameron (Steve Railsback), a Vietnam vet who's wanted for attempted murder, is caught by the police but escapes. Eli admits to her that he's jealous of Lucky. The Stunt Man is a film which, I guess, isn't quite in the spirit of what a 1980s action project should be about. In an October 17, 1980, review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin noted "the film's cleverness is aggressive and cool," but concluded that although "the gamesmanship of The Stunt Man is fast and furious... gamesmanship is almost all it manages to be". ROAD TO CINEMA - RICHARD RUSH - Director/Screenwriter PART 2. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stunt_man, The Sinister Saga of Making "The Stunt Man", Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Stunt_Man&oldid=1020776842, Articles containing potentially dated statements from March 2021, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 April 2021, at 23:41. The Stunt Man is a preposterously entertaining thriller with a clever narrative and Oscar-worthy (nomination, at least!) The soundtrack was mastered by Greg Fulginiti. The local police chief is aware of the accident on the bridge and Eli has to do some fast talking to convince him that Cameron is Burt, the stunt man who went off the bridge into the river. Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. The first version is a standard release featuring two deleted scenes and a commentary by director Richard Rush. Reality and imagination soon blur when Cameron grows increasingly paranoid because Eli Cross doesn't let anything or anybody get in the way of shooting his masterpiece the way he wants. Production took place in 1978. [10] Jay Scott called it "[t]he best movie about making a movie ever made, but the achievement merely begins there. Peter O'Toole performance."[8]. Simply put, THE STUNT MAN’ stands strong as one of the most ambitious, uncompromising, and devilishly clever films ever made. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Columbia offered the film to Richard Rush on the strength of the success of his previous film, Getting Straight. There's a running theme about how the movies are all about making things look like what they're not. Add the first question. What a "Night"! The DVD-release by Anchor Bay comes with an extra disc loaded with extra's. The Stunt Man, a bizarre swirl of pseudo-surrealism that stars Peter O'Toole as an egotistical, dangerously manipulative film director named Eli Cross, is easily Rush's most critically revered movie, having garnered three Oscar® nominations (including nods to O'Toole for Best Actor and Rush himself for Best Director), so it makes sense that he wanted to discuss it with a captive audience. Vancouver. Title: Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager. It's plausible; killing Lucky would get him out of Nina's life and remove the most unreliable witness to the cover-up of Burt's death. During the early 1970s, Columbia Pictures owned film rights to the novel, with Arthur Penn and François Truffaut considered for directing it. There's an elaborate scene where Lucky, standing in for the leading man, is chased up and down the sloping red roofs of a large building (in real life, the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego, California), shot at, and falls through a skylight into a bordello. Use the HTML below. As the movie ends, Cameron and Eli are bickering over Cameron's pay for the stunt and planning to catch a plane to the production's next location. While he wonders whether it went into the river, a helicopter flies close to the bridge and a man inside looks intently at Cameron. The Stunt Man is an intense, claustrophobic thriller set in the heady raciocinations of an on-a-whim fugitive and (perhaps) accidental criminal. It tells the story of a young fugitive who hides as a stunt double on the set of a World War I movie whose charismatic director will do seemingly anything for the sake of his art. The best way to convince Lucky of Eli's good will, Eli felt, was to make sure Lucky got through the stunt in one piece. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Perhaps it's all a little too ambitious at times but with a cast like this and such a dazzling script, it's definitely worth the effort. Barbara Hershey has a smart, sexy supporting role as a lead actress who won't submit to her director's seemingly devious behavior; but it's clearly O'Toole who steals the show. When Cameron is convinced Eli's selling him out by showing the cops the film shot when Burt ran off the bridge -- because Cameron's in it -- Eli reassures him by telling him that the original King Kong from the 1933 movie "was just 3 foot 6 inches tall -- he only came up to Fay Wray's belly button. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. The last shoot at the current location involves Lucky's most difficult stunt, driving a Duesenberg off a bridge and escaping under water -- the same scene Burt was shooting when he died. It tells the story of a young fugitive who hides as a stunt double on the set of a World War I movie whose charismatic director will do seemingly anything for the sake of his art. Murphy, Mary. Lucky believes Eli is trying to kill him, and will use the stunt to make it look like an accident. After the scene, he notices an old woman who walks through the set greeting the actors, then falls in the water. At the same time, Lucky/Cameron's getting involved with Nina -- who, it turns out, once had a romance with Eli and still admires him tremendously. Nina tells him that she was found in the trunk hours before the shoot, and Eli told her that Lucky had changed his mind and decided to do the stunt. Lucky, of course, had done no such thing, but Nina's so pleased that he and Eli have made up that he doesn't set her straight. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Cameron's job is to pretend to be Burt and do his stunts -- a role within a role that allows both Eli and Cameron to avoid entanglements with the police. Booth is purportedly inspired by Burt Reynold's stunt man, Hal Needham; however, their personal backstories other than being stunt men with remarkably close relationships to … I shouldn't be watching a film starring proper Ac-Tors like Peter O'Toole and Barbara Hershey, and certainly not any that are longer than 90 minutes, let alone 130 minutes long. Many scenes were filmed in and around the historic Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California. The Stunt Man, which is scary and sorrowful and stirring and sexy - in other words, everything a big Hollywood popcorn-cruncher of a movie should be - is the best movie about making a movie ever made. after Sam asks why Cross is keeping Cameron on the shoot, A Tribute to Richard Rush: The Maverick Who Made ‘The Stunt Man’ Didn’t Direct Many Films, but Was Always Ahead of the Curve, Best Director Portrayal in a Film - Part 2. The stuntman is rarely filmed up close and seldom stars in the movie or show. ‘THE STUNT MAN’ approaches a career best for Peter O'Toole, which, for an actor of his stature, is saying something. The mixture of real danger and fantasy of the movie is an interesting twist for the viewer as the two blend in individual scenes. Said Rush: "They couldn't figure out if it was a comedy, a drama, if it was a social satire, if it was an action adventure...and, of course, the answer was, 'Yes, it's all those things.' Simply put, THE STUNT MAN’ stands strong as one of the most ambitious, uncompromising, and devilishly clever films ever made. "[11] Critic Pauline Kael considered it "a virtuoso piece of kinetic moviemaking" and rated it one of year's best films. While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Roger Ebert wrote "there was a great deal in it that I admired... [but] there were times when I felt cheated". Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. It's an ingeniously constructed film that takes some patience and attention to watch. Whether you're ready for the return of your favorite show or need to catch up, May is packed with an array of returning series. In Madrid, an American engineer unwittingly gets involved in a scheme to smuggle priceless religious artifacts out of Spain. Ostensibly the color change is to make him resemble the blond leading man, Raymond Bailey (Adam Roarke) -- Lucky is Ray's stunt double -- but of course it also, conveniently, makes him harder to recognize. Lucky is thrilled to learn he'll be paid $600 for the scene. Imagine a picture an eight-year-old and Wittgenstein could enjoy with equal fervor. Although the direction is fine, it's mostly a virtuoso piece of scripting (credited to Rush and Lawrence B. Marcus, based on Paul Brodeur's novel) that makes this such a special film. Filming took place at … The film's theme song "Bits & Pieces" is sung by Dusty Springfield. They haven't found the body, and Eli can't afford the production delays that will result if the police get involved. After Nina stops laughing, the couple plans to escape together: Nina hides in the trunk of the stunt car, which Cameron will drive away in the morning instead of driving off the bridge. The Stunt Man is a 1980 Action-Comedy-Drama-Thriller-Romance film directed by Richard Rush, based on Paul Brodeur's novel. This is a video with a few shots just tryna freestile drift and doing long airtimes there will be a short film coming soon stay tuned for that! Being a stunt man doesn't mean recklessly jumping out of three story windows, playing with fire, or crashing a motorcycle into a tree because you weren't careful. (Eli claims divers pulled him out of the car, and Cameron is convincingly damp, having just pulled Nina out of the ocean.) It escaped."[4]. ”The Stunt Man,” a black comedy with a screenplay by Mr. Marcus and Richard Rush, the film’s director, was released in 1980 and starred Peter O’Toole as an autocratic director. Hello guys. Peter O'Toole mentions in his DVD commentary that he based his character on David Lean who directed him in Lawrence of Arabia. John Vogel , When I first saw THE STUNT MAN, I was very enthusiastic about the film and raved about it to anyone who might be interested. A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. San Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process. Written by If God could do the tricks that we can do, he'd be a happy man." The story starts with a Vietnam veteran named Cameron (Steve Railsback) who is on the run from the police. 10 Tracks. THE STUNT MAN defied all odds to become the most unexpected cult hit of the 1980s. 1240 Followers. Cameron took out his fury one night on the ice cream shop (which he reenacts by trashing the set shop). [9] He gave the film two stars but noted that others had "highly recommended" it. He runs onto a movie set and accidentally kills the stunt man. While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. In July 1971, Columbia announced that Rush would direct the film with William Castle executive producer. ‘THE STUNT MAN’ approaches a career best for Peter O'Toole, which, for an actor of his stature, is saying something. Mad bikers storm through an Indian reservation just to have a good ol' time. [6], Rush then penned a 150-page treatment different from the book; in the novel, the characters were all crazy, and in the screenplay, they were instead "sane in a world gone mad. Denise (Sharon Farrell), the film's hair stylist, dyes his hair and makes a pass at him. As of March 2021[update], the comedy drama film[7] held a 90% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 40 reviews. A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady. But that isn't a satisfactory answer to a studio executive." [5] Rush initially rejected, then ultimately accepted directing The Stunt Man. He'd planned to open an ice cream shop with a friend when he got home from Vietnam, but the friend backed out -- he didn't want Cameron around because, Cameron realized, the friend was the guy Cameron's girlfriend had left him for. Lucky panics everyone by starting the scene too early. The mixture of real danger and fantasy of the movie is an interesting twist for the viewer as the two blend in individual scenes. Stunt men have families, … A stuntman (or stuntwoman) often fills in for the star of a movie or television show, performing dangerous falls or getting into car crashes, fires or fights. [12] She called O'Toole's comic performance "peerless". I cannot imagine this kind of film being made in Hollywood today and even back then it might be called a small miracle it got made in the first place, let alone released (in fact, it sat on the shelf for two years before release). thestuntman.ca Producer / DJ / Mastering Engineer / Space Bio: The Stunt Man is a recording engineer/DJ/producer. The Stunt Man is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Richard Rush, starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, and Barbara Hershey. The film was adapted by Lawrence B. Marcus and Rush from the 1970 novel of the same name by Paul Brodeur. The Stunt Man is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Richard Rush, starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, and Barbara Hershey. He portrays Eli Cross as a god of sorts. In an iconic Oscar-nominated performance, Peter O’ Toole (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) is film director Eli Cross, a megalomaniacal madman commanding a circus of a production. It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Peter O'Toole), Best Director (Richard Rush), and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? He portrays Eli Cross as a god of sorts. Let our editors help you find what's trending and what's worth your time. becomes their catchphrase. The car goes into the water when Chuck triggers the exploding tire, and Lucky scrambles to reach Nina in the trunk -- until he happens to look up out of the sinking car's rear window to see Nina with Eli on the bridge. A short plot outline: Fugitive Cameron (Railsback) stumbles onto a movie set where megalomaniac director Eli Cross (O'Toole) promises to hide from the police if he replaces his ace stunt man, who got killed earlier on the set in a freak accident while filming a scene. The second version is a limited edition (100,000 copies) containing everything from the standard release as well as the 2000 documentary The Sinister Saga of Making "The Stunt Man". Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. Stream Tracks and Playlists from The Stunt Man on your desktop or mobile device. - documentary about the making of the film, presented by Rush himself, almost worth seeing in itself.Camera Obscura - 8/10. Funding for the picture finally came from Melvin Simon who had made a fortune in real estate.[3]. Starring: Peter O'Toole Steve Railsback Barbara Hershey Allen Goorwitz Alex Rocco Get unlimited DVD Movies & TV Shows delivered to your door with no … A little too over-plotted and self-conscious, and mired in the author's 'clever' idea to work within the idea of life imitating art and vice versa. 'Stunt Man' Next for Castle Barbara Hershey gives a great performance but without Peter O'Toole's tour-de-force performance, I doubt if the film would have worked as well as it did, especially with such a challenging and multi-layered script. Oh! He doesn't seem to care about human life, as long as his movie is shot in the way he wants it.Railsback is an odd choice for the main role but apparently the makers wanted a "low-key" actor for the main part. The Stunt Man now features a stunning HD transfer supervised by Oscar® nominated producer/director Richard Rush, plus new interviews and commentaries with Rush, Peter O’Toole, Steve Railsback and Alex Rocco, all in the ultimate edition of the classic that the Los Angeles Times calls “as innovative today as Citizen Kane was in its time!” Rush then bought the film rights from Columbia and shopped the film to other studios, to no avail. Running from the law, Vietnam vet Cameron (Steve Railsback) stumbles on a movie shoot just in time to interfere with a staged accident, causing (perhaps) the stunt man's death. Later, Cameron is attracted to a movie shoot -- a World War I battle scene -- on the beach. What is a Stuntman? Which is your favorite? 31 of 35 people found this review helpful. Secret agent Dick Dagger is assigned to stop him. She's not an old woman, but the movie's leading lady, Nina Franklin (Barbara Hershey), testing the costume and make-up for the scenes set late in her character's life. The Stunt Man The critics consensus states, "The Stunt Man is a preposterously entertaining thriller with a clever narrative and Oscar-worthy (nomination, at least!) Cameron is rechristened "Lucky." Need some help finding the best things to watch on Netflix? When a cop turned up to see what was going on, Cameron threw a big tub of ice cream at him and fled. American engineer Steve Corey comes to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. Crossing a bridge, he dodges an antique car that seems to be trying to run him down; when he turns around, the car has disappeared. Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. Made by the erratic Richard Rush, this was his pet project for nine years. For which movie should Peter O'Toole have won an acting Oscar? Rent The Stunt Man (1980) starring Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback on DVD and Blu-ray. Richard Rush 's "The Stunt Man is like one of those delicate sets of Chinese boxes, each one with another box inside, growing smaller and smaller until finally there is nothing left at all. Adapted from Paul Brodeur's novel, Richard Rush's story of a Machiavellian movie director and his accidental employee takes a darkly comic look at movie reality vs. "real" reality. Cameron dives in to rescue her and is horrified when she pulls off her face -- a mask. Opening scenes were filmed at Mary Etta's Cafe, Flinn Springs, California. Simply put, THE STUNT MAN’ stands strong as one of the most ambitious, uncompromising, and devilishly clever films ever made. Is Eli trying to capture Cameron's death on film while he is performing a stunt? The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes. “Peter O’Toole was the best thing that ever happened to me. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. He delivers his lines with such vigor that you cannot look away, a grand performance by perhaps my favorite actor off all time. (1980). The Stunt Man is a quirky jigsaw puzzle of a picture that reveals more secrets about, in Rush's words, "the panic and paranoia over controlling our own destinies" through repeated viewings; it can also leave you marveling at its utterly odd ingenuity the first time you see it. Chuck Hicks, the stuntman, actor and frequent Clint Eastwood combatant whose credits included Every Which Way but Loose, The Twilight Zone, Cool Hand Luke and Dick Tracy, has … English Language Learners Definition of stuntman : a man who takes an actor's place during the filming of stunts and dangerous scenes for a movie or TV show See the full definition for stuntman in the English Language Learners Dictionary Individual scenes for nine years, then ultimately accepted directing the Stunt Man is a recording engineer/DJ/producer released. Off her face -- a World War the stunt man battle scene -- on the run from police... 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