The Stunt Man

19801980
AA
2h 11m

A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.

Director
- Richard Rush
Writers
- Lawrence B. Marcus(screenplay)
- Richard Rush(adaptation)
- Paul Brodeur(novel)
Stars

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Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 4 wins & 11 nominations total

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Trailer 2:02

Official Trailer

Video 28:55

Sneak Previews Season 3 Episode 6

Peter O'Toole, A.J. Bakunas, Philip Bruns, John Garwood, Sharon Farrell, Jim Hess, and Adam Roarke in The Stunt Man (1980)

Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback in The Stunt Man (1980)

Peter O'Toole and Adam Roarke in The Stunt Man (1980)

Trivia
Director Richard Rush has said of this movie in a 2001 interview with Paul Hupfield: "I was lecturing at a university film school to a bunch of potential film students and asked them if any of them had seen my films. I started with Color of Night (1994), and I'd say about 80 hands went up out of a room of about 200 kids. Then I asked if anyone had seen The Stunt Man (1980), the film I actually wanted to talk to them about, and only two hands went up. Two hands in a room of 200! I thought, 'Oh boy, my film is totally lost on this generation...'."

Goofs
Just before jumping into the water to rescue Nina, Cameron is already all wet.

Quotes
Eli Cross: [after a cameraman says cut because there's only 22 seconds of film left] In 22 seconds, I could break your fucking spine. In 22 seconds, I could pinch your head off like a fucking insect and spin it all over the fucking pavement. In 22 seconds, I could put 22 bullets inside your ridiculous gut. What I seem unable to do in 22 seconds is to keep you from fucking up my film!

Crazy credits
After the credits end, the movie-within-a-movie director (played by Peter O'Toole) yells, "Sam, rewrite the opening reel! Crush the little bastard in the first act!" And then he laughs during the fade-out.