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.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 4 wins & 11 nominations total
- Sam
- (as Allen Goorwitz)
- Garage Guard
- (as John B. Pearce)
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- TriviaDirector 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...'"
- GoofsThe car used in the main "driving off the bridge" scene is consistently described as a Duesenberg, but it has the well-known Mercedes-Benz hood ornament.
- 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 creditsAfter 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.
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Box office
- Budget
- $3,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,063,886
- Gross worldwide
- $7,063,886
- Runtime2 hours 11 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1