donna

Just been thinking what stunts impressed me most, but there are so many great ones, does anyone now find the computerised age has taken a lot away.

Harleybloke

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Wicked Lady

Anything Chaplin or Buster Keaton used to do.

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donna

Ben Hur Chariot scenes

orpheum

Remember that some of the of the stunts were worked with unsafe methods particularly for animals.A case in point is the infamous Running Y used in films such as The Charge of The Light Brigade(1936)
There was also the stunt,cant remeber the film where rider and horse both dive off a cliff into a lake or river below.I think that the horse was killed by this.Obviously these are now banned.So maybe computerised action is safer.

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donna

Yes some stunts with animals were horrendous, I read that in certain films, actually think it was Charge of the Light Brigade , they tripped the horses with wire, horrible, we dont need that at all for realism do we. Glad its all stopped.

scholes

Or certainly any stunt that Harold Lloyd attempted.

Steve Crook

Norman Wisdom falling down a flight of stairs like in The Early Bird.

Steve

batman

Kane Richmond in Spy Smasher, stunt work beyond the call of duty, especially as he was also the leading man!

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mariocki

Rick Sylvester's ski jump in the pre-credits sequence of The Spy Who Loved Me:

YouTube - roger moore james bond parachute ski jump

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Edward G

Not an abvious choice but there is a superb sequence of stunts in the extended chase scene in "What's Up, Doc"...

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earlb

Scholes, that stunt is not as dangerous as it looks as there is a bridge beneath him which has been used in many movies.
To me - one of the best stuntmen ever is my late great friend PADDY RYAN whos Son is also a member of this forum. The photo below is from 'Ivanhoe' starring Robert Taylor and at that time was the highest jump ever in a movie



The photo below is from 'Prize of Gold' starring Richard Widmark and Nigel Patrick and here PADDY is falling into the Pool of London. Joan Regan had a hit record with 'A Prize of Gold' from the film.



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davidb

a "cunning stunt " was when roger moore ran over the the crocodiles as if they were stepping stones in live and let die

EHV_Emmetts

Steve McQueen did some of those stunts himself. Incidentally the barbed wire in that scene was actually made from rubber.

donna

Butch Cassidy: Then you jump first.
Sundance Kid: No, I said.
Butch Cassidy: What’s the matter with you?
Sundance Kid: I can’t swim.
Butch Cassidy: Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you.

Even though Newman and Reford’s stuntmen did the river jump off of a construction crane at the studio’s Century Ranch by Century Lake it is still a memorable stunt. The crane was obscured by a matte painting of the cliffs.