The Stunt Man Page #29

Synopsis: On the run from the police, Cameron (Steve Railsback) crashes the set of a Hollywood war movie. When he inadvertently causes a stunt man's death, the film's manipulative director, Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole), decides to shelter Cameron from the cops if he steps in as the daredevil's replacement. Though the arrangement seems like a good deal, it soon becomes a perilous position, with the situation only complicated when Cameron falls for the movie's lead actress, Nina Franklin (Barbara Hershey).

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield

Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corp.

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:: 89%

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: R
Year:: 1980
: 131 min
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ELI:
(yelling to Cameron)
Don't miss that plane, Burt!
JAKE:
(leaning across Cameron
to yell at Eli)
He better not! Any member of your
company found within city limits
after five o'clock tonight, gets
shot on sight!
Eli stops, suddenly registering what Cameron had said.
ELI:
...What thousand bucks? That stunt
paid six-fifty.
CAMERON:
(surprised)
Chuck told me a thousand...
ELI:
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(firmly)
Six-fifty!
CAMERON:
(getting upset)
A thousand!
ELI:
(relenting)
Okay, seven-fifty. Split the
difference...
CAMERON:
Bullshit! You're trying to screw
me!!
ELI:
(exasperated)
Christ! You're doing it again!
(striding toward the
chopper, shouting)
Sam! This paranoid little bastard
still doesn't understand your damn
screenplay!
Eli is climbing into the helicopter.
CAMERON:
(shrieking)
That's your big problem, Eli! You
use people! I want my money, a
thousand bucks!
ELI:
(to Cameron)
Six-fifty!!
(to Sam)
Rewrite the battle scene and let the
tank run him over! The stunt pays
six-fifty!
The helicopter takes off, zooms under the bridge, up into a
hammerhead and soars back, while Cameron continues to scream at it.
CAMERON:
Come back here. I'm tired of being
your goddamn clown! Pay me my
thousand bucks!
Eli's voice on the helicopter's P.A. speaker echoes through the
canyon, as the chopper cavorts overhead and skims away.
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ELI'S VOICE (ON P.A.)
How tall was King Kong...
- FADE OUT

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Richard Rush

Richard Rush (born April 15, 1929 in New York, New York) is an American movie director, scriptwriter, and producer. He is best known for the Oscar-nominated The Stunt Man. His other works, however, have been less celebrated. The next best-known of his movies is Color of Night — also nominated, but in this case for the Golden Raspberry Award. Rush also directed Freebie and the Bean, an over-the-top police buddy comedy/drama starring Alan Arkin and James Caan. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1990 movie Air America. more…

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