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Danger on the silver screen : 50 films celebrating cinema's greatest stunts / Scott McGee.

McGee, Scott, (author.). Hooker, Buddy Joe, (author of foreword.).

Summary:

"An entertaining, action-packed addition to the TCM program that celebrates an essential, but often overlooked or disregarded part of the film industry: stunts. Offering readers a unique perspective as well as history of the impact and evolution of stunt work, and behind-the-scenes stories from the stunt professionals who risked life and limb to make the magic happen"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780762474844
ISBN: 076247484X
Physical Description: xv, 271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Running Press, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Way Down East -- A Double Dose of Doug-Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood & The Black Pirate -- Safety Last! -- Great K&A Train Robbery -- Up in the Air : Wings & Hell's Angels -- Steamboat Bill, Jr. -- Stagecoach -- Twelve O'Clock High -- Thing from Another World -- To the Maximus : Ben-Hur & Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ -- How The West Was Won -- Great Escape -- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World -- Train -- Bullitt -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- On Her Majesty's Secret Service -- Vanishing Point -- French Connection -- Moore Work for Stuntmen : Live and Let Die & The Spy Who Loved Me -- Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry -- Man Who Would Be King -- Smokey and the Bandit -- Hooper -- High-Octane Anarchy : Mad Max & Mad Max : Fury Road -- Blues Brothers -- If Adventure Has a Name : Raiders of the Lost Ark & Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -- Romancing the Stone -- Remo Williams : The Adventure Begins -- Shoot to Thrill : Licence to Kill & GoldenEye -- Rumble in the Bronx -- Ronin -- A World Where Anything Is Possible : The Matrix & The Matrix Reloaded -- Beads of Sweat : The Bourne Supremacy & The Bourne Ultimatum -- Casino Royale -- Death Proof -- Cruise in Control : Mission: Impossible : Ghost Protocol & Mission: Impossible : Rogue Nation -- John Wick -- Atomic Blonde -- Baby Driver.