Stunts

Stunts (1977)

Dying is one hell of a way to make a living.

After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.

Date of release
1977-06-01
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Action, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Director
Mark L. Lester

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $600K

Stunts, also released as The Deadly Game, is a 1977 American adventure thriller film set in the world of movie stunt performers directed by Mark L. Lester and starring Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis and Ray Sharkey. The first film produced by New Line Cinema, Stunts was part of a late 1970s/early 1980s cycle of stunt performer films that included stunt man-turned-director Hal Needham's Hooper (1978) and Richard Rush's The Stunt Man (1980).

Production

Stunts was Bob Shaye's first movie for New Line Cinema and was also the company's first full-length feature film production; for the previous 10 years they had existed solely as a distribution company. "They were distributing Truck Stop Women to college campuses and they already had a script, so I was hired to direct it," said the director Mark Lester. "We hired Robert Forster because he had done Medium Cool.

Stunts was filmed in San Luis Obispo, California.

Candice Rialson makes one of her final appearances.

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