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Film critic Roger Ebert has said of this film's development and distribution: "Richard Rush . . . be [...]	D
Stuntman AJ Bakunas broke his leg partway through a high stunt fall, and you can see the snap (at 49 [...]	D
Stunt coordinator Charles Bail, who is frequently known as Chuck Bail, worked as an actor in the fil [...]	D
"It seems cruel to say that I hurt him, but I did do it on purpose," said Chuck Bail, regarding phys [...]	D
When Columbia executive Peter Guber first announced this in August 1970, William Castle was to produ [...]	D
Elia Kazan recommended actor Steve Railsback to director Richard Rush.	D
Richard Rush initially declined do this movie in the very early 1970s.	D
The old hotel complex seen in the film is the Hotel del Coronado. The hotel had been well known for [...]	D
This was director Richard Rush's first film to be released in six years. Rush's last had been 1974's [...]	D
Steve Railsback's big laugh at the end was in response to the cast and crew off-camera making funny [...]	D
The American Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declined approval to allow director Richard Rush' [...]	D
Peter O'Toole says that his hair "was done every morning and through every take" by Richard Rush him [...]	D
The picture was actor Peter O'Toole's previous film to L'ospite d'onore (1982). As such, it was the [...]	D
Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback got the giggles while sharing a seat high up in the air, and it ke [...]	D
Co-scriptwriter Richard Rush has said of adapting this film's source Paul Brodeur novel: "There was [...]	D
A made-for-DVD behind-the-scenes documentary, The Sinister Saga of Making 'The Stunt Man' (2000), wa [...]	D
The film was a dream project for director Richard Rush. The film has frequently being publicized as [...]	D
At 1hr 10 mins.) There's a single frame of Steve Railsback spliced into the camera's viewfinder (whi [...]	D
The 20th Century Fox film picked up the picture for distribution the same day the film won the Grand [...]	D
Although actors like Martin Sheen and Jeff Bridges were lobbying hard for the part of Cameron, Steve [...]	D
The scene where Eli and Cameron sit on the camera crane and launch into the air confused Steve Rails [...]	D
Barbara Hershey is introduced in old-age makeup, and she covers her mouth when she giggles to hide h [...]	D
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role - Peter O'Too [...]	D
"I think Richard was testing my pucker," says Peter O'Toole, who was in the helicopter as it flew un [...]	D
The film is considered a cult movie and is listed in Danny Peary's "Cult Movies 3" book as such.	D
The Hotel Del Coronado had previously been used as a location for the 1959 film Some Like It Hot. L [...]	D
Richard Rush doesn't typically plan via storyboards, "probably for contemptible reasons, and that is [...]	D
While Eli Cross and others ride in a boom Crane Basket and Eli Cross talks about movie illusion, the [...]	D
The screen door was supposed to be pre-cut a bit more to allow Cameron (Steve Railsback) to bust thr [...]	D
Actress Barbara Hershey appears in the movie at times in age make-up where she is seen portraying a [...]	D
Co-screenwriter Richard Rush has said of the rejection of his first draft script by Columbia Picture [...]	D
Peter O'Toole typically waited a full decade before watching one of his own films, but he made an ex [...]	D
Peter O'Toole always said that his portrayal of the obsessive director Eli Cross was a mixture of th [...]	D
Columbia offered the film to Richard Rush on the strength of the success of his previous film, L'imp [...]	D
In the scene Eli and his crew are about to film the scene when the Dusenberg goes off the bridge. Ca [...]	D
Richard Rush initially planned to open the film flying over an expansive forest before coming to set [...]	D
The film was made and released about a decade after its source novel of the same name by Paul Brodeu [...]	D
The big end sequences including the bridge sequence were filmed while on the lam from the film's fin [...]	D
FranÃ§ois Truffaut was an early contender to direct the film version of Paul Brodeur's novel. Truf [...]	D
The movie's main opening credits and promotional title logo were framed and billed in association wi [...]	D
The scene where the old car crashes off the bridge ("The Old Fair Oaks Bridge) into the river was fi [...]	D
Richard Rush performed a number of roles on this picture -. writer, producer and director.	D
Peter O'Toole based his performance and characterization of film director Eli Cross on director Davi [...]	D
The make and model of the vintage car is referred to in the film as being a Duesenberg. However, acc [...]	D
Richard Rush took one of the biplanes up for a spin in the middle of production, despite Chuck Bail' [...]	D
On the film's DVD audio commentary, the picture's star Peter O'Toole said of the movie's distributio [...]	D
The name of Peter O'Toole's Eli Cross director character in the film's source novel by Paul Brodeur [...]	D
The Warner Brothers studio wanted to use "The Stuntman" title for the Burt Reynolds action-comedy mo [...]	D
The only film that year to be Oscar nominated for Best Director, but not Best Picture.	D
Production began in October 1977; copyright date is 1979.	D
The name of the movie within a movie being filmed is never mentioned during the film. Its title thou [...]	D
In a tie with Fontamara (1980), the film won the Grand Prix (Grand Prix des AmÃ©riques) Award at t [...]	D
Made in 1978 its first screening was at the London Film Festival in November1980.	D
The movie was part of a 1970s cycle of works which were about stunt-work and the stunt profession in [...]	D
Peter O'Toole had trouble sleeping some nights due to ducks outside his hotel window, and he would p [...]	D
According to 'Movies on TV and Videocassette', "Director-producer 'Richard Rush' worked on the proje [...]	D
The movie's main "Stunt Man" character (played by Steve Railsback) is described by his director char [...]	D
The cast spent the entirety of shooting competing to come up with a title for Eli's movie within the [...]	D
The movie's original running time was 150 minutes.	D
Funding for the picture came from Melvin Simon who had made a fortune in real estate.	D
Director Richard Rush has said of this movie in a 2001 interview with Paul Hupfield: "I was lecturin [...]	D
The hiding out on a film set story element in this movie's story-line has a true real life parallel. [...]	D
Ryan O'Neal originally was slated to play the lead, but dropped out and was eventually replaced by S [...]	D
The overhead shots of Chuck Bail down on the beach were filmed by Rush - while Bail was shooting act [...]	D
Richard Rush would have Chuck Bail over to the house during pre-production to talk about action sequ [...]	D
Lead actor Peter O'Toole reportedly struggled to find a suitable outfit for his role as obsessive di [...]	D
At 10 mins.) The painter is a cameo by co-writer Lawrence B. Marcus.	D
The original stuntman 'Lucky' (the one who crashed and disappeared) was played by Steve Railsback's [...]	D
Richard Rush hadn't viewed the film as a comedy, but he had to concede the point after numerous scre [...]	D
People gave Richard Rush flack for destroying a classic Duesenberg automobile, but "it's really a 19 [...]	D
Reportedly, when actor Peter O'Toole first read the movie's script a few years prior to the film get [...]	D
Actor Steve Railsback, for a time at the start of the picture, sports a beard.	D
Barbara Hershey thinks that while most filmmakers tend to shoot masters first followed by closeups, [...]	D
Bad weather made those last sequences a real struggle, so much so that Richard Rush worried they "we [...]	D
Peter O'Toole is no fan of Lewis Carroll. "I find his flat doodle a bit wearing," he says, but if I' [...]	D
According to a DVD review by Almar Haflidason of the BBC, "...this movie had problems getting screen [...]	D
In an interview with 'American Film' magazine in 1981, director Richard Rush said the film "...had i [...]	D
The Columbia Pictures studio in 1970 paid around US $300,000 for the film right's to Paul Brodeur's [...]	D
Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, and Alex Rocco show a lot of love towards Peter O'Toole as they di [...]	D
All the major American film distributors rejected to distribute this picture. The producers then sne [...]	D
Sharon Farrell recalls a scene between herself and Steve Railsback that had him "squishing my butt" [...]	D
Two of the names of the characters had double meanings. Steve Railsback)'s stuntman character Camero [...]	D
The main title music heard at the beginning of the film is strikingly similar to the main-title musi [...]	D
The opening scene with the dog licking its genitals was shot multiple times and after a while the do [...]	D
People have asked why this opening is filled with so many seemingly random items, but Richard Rush s [...]	D
Though nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for this movie, director Richard Rush's next [...]	D
Publicity for this picture declared that the movie "defies categorization". The production notes sta [...]	D
During the long period of the making and release of this film director Richard Rush suffered two hea [...]	D
Allen Garfield plays the writer, and after falling asleep at a big cast and crew dinner everyone was [...]	D
The image of the buzzard representing Melvin Simons Productions was created solely for the transitio [...]	D
The script had a secondary film being made alongside the one Eli was making, and it was a science fi [...]	D

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In the "WWI battle scene" at the beginning of the film, the sequence of events is implausible, and l [...]	D
During one of the battle scenes, an actor portraying a German officer in a machine gun nest orders f [...]	D
In one of the WW1 scenes, a wall is painted with the names of two French towns: Verdon and Nancy. "V [...]	D
When Cameron does a somersault, his position changes as he comes out of the roll.	D
At the company dinner, Peter O'Toole puts his fork into some food but when he puts the fork in his m [...]	D
In the closing scene Eli's helicopter takes off as he is talking to Cameron. However, cuts back to c [...]	D
At dinner, after Eli's line "This film... is not about fighting wars, Sam," Sam's right arm jumps; f [...]	D
Just before jumping into the water to rescue Nina, Cameron is already all wet.	D
When Cameron flees the cops in the diner, he jumps through the screen door and splits it down the mi [...]	D
One minute, Cameron is on a bridge in the town of Fair Oaks, California, and Eli Cross is in a helic [...]	D
When Eli pulls Cameron onto the crane, Eli's arm wraps around him and stays wrapped around him for t [...]	D
When Cameron previews the footage of Bert's demise, the windshield has no hole in it, then a hole ap [...]	D
The car used in the main "driving off the bridge" scene is consistently described as a Duesenberg, b [...]	D

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Eli Cross: How tall is King Kong? Cameron: [shout [...]	D
Eli Cross: Sam, this picture is my child. What wou [...]	D
Eli Cross: Oh Burt, stop this worrying. You must h [...]	D
Eli Cross: Now don't be hasty and remember your ar [...]	D
Eli Cross: Well, talking of jail, would you be ver [...]	D
Eli Cross: People like to believe in things and po [...]	D
Cameron: [after Eli urges him to read how to get o [...]	D
Police Chief Jake: Hey Bert, it's amazing you're [...]	D
Cameron: [after completing stunt] That was the har [...]	D
Eli Cross: It's not what he's eating, but what's e [...]	D
Eli Cross: He's a hopeless yo-yo, Jake, but he's n [...]	D
Eli Cross: [after an effects shot involving a dumm [...]	D
Cameron: I knew daredevils, and I ain't got nothin [...]	D
Sam: Was she supposed to be a virgin? Cameron: [s [...]	D
Man watching second unit stunt shot: [after corpse [...]	D
Chuck Barton: You know, one daredevil on this pict [...]	D
Cameron: What should I congratulate you for? The f [...]	D
Cameron: [after demonstrating a leap for Chuck] My [...]	D
Sam: My friend, taking my life in my hands, I must [...]	D
Eli Cross: Would you tell the chief of police that [...]	D
Eli Cross: I have versions of all sorts. Care to g [...]	D
Eli Cross: [after a cameraman says cut because the [...]	D
Eli Cross: [to Cameron, who has completed the car [...]	D
Eli Cross: I know a man who made an anti-war movie [...]	D
Eli Cross: If you cooperate, you'll receive a firs [...]	D
Sam: [his madhouse scene having been replaced with [...]	D
Cameron: If you want to get home for Thanksgiving, [...]	D
Cameron: Why are you trying to save my ass? Eli C [...]	D
Chuck Barton: Done any stuntwork? Cameron: Not re [...]	D
Eli Cross: [after Sam asks why Cross is keeping Ca [...]	D
Sam: What's wrong, Eli? Eli Cross: Wrong? The sce [...]	D
Cop #1: [as Cameron plays a pinball machine] You'r [...]	D
Eli Cross: Nina the actress so fair / Who fancied [...]	D
[after Nina falls into the ocean, Cameron carries [...]	D
Eli Cross: Do you not know that King Kong the firs [...]	D
Eli Cross: Ah, welcome to the same picture, Sam.	D
Chuck Barton: You know a good falling horse makes [...]	D
Eli Cross: [Sam has suggested including a risque a [...]	D
Chuck Barton: [indicating distance of about 4 feet [...]	D
Chuck Barton: Your mind can't be on snatch. It's g [...]	D
Eli Cross: What an unexpected but delightful shock [...]	D

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