Yakima Canutt: The Little-Known but Great
American Stuntman
Posted By: DVC, 5/16/2024 3:24:19 PM
It’s a fine idea to pay tribute to movie stuntmen, those little-known heroes of the silver screen. But one would have to be far more charmed by endless, overloud, and preposterous action scenes and brain-dead fights than I am in order to enjoy The Fall Guy, which I recently watched at the local Bijou. The American Spectator’s Leonora Cravotta is right about the movie’s boy/girl romance and the welcome clear line between good and bad. These are too rare on the large or small screen these days. But for me these positives were cancelled by the aforementioned dreary chaos at industrial decibel levels. No disrespect to the estimable Leonora.
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I was well aware of who Yakima Canutt was, and have seen many movies where he was the guy doing the amazingly dangerous stunts. Interesting that the author doesn't mention that John Wayne started out as one of Canutt's stunt men, and did a lot of his own stunts over the years, after doing stunts for others before he got to act.