Steel

Steel (1979)

The Magnificent Eight

Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers while under construction, he retired and became a truck driver. But when an old friend needs him to help put up a building, and when the old friend gets harassed and threatened by an Evil Corporate Type, he comes out of retirement and assembles the creme de la creme of the construction world. Together, they race against time to finish the building while the Evil Corporate Type tries to stop them.

Date of release
1979-10-21
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Crime
Director
Steve Carver

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Kentucky

Steel is a 1979 American drama film directed by Steve Carver and starring Lee Majors, Jennifer O'Neill, Art Carney, and George Kennedy. It was filmed in Lexington, Kentucky, and the surrounding Fayette County.

Production

The film was shot in Kentucky and at one stage was called Look Down and Die.

On September 21, 1978, stuntman A.J. Bakunas was fatally injured while doubling a fall for George Kennedy's character "Big Lew" Cassidy. Bakunas, who had already filmed a jump from ninth floor of the Kincaid Towers, wanted to surpass fellow stuntman Dar Robinson's then-new world record for highest free-fall (286 feet, 87m), a record Bakunas himself had previously held (230 feet, 70m).

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