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Budget 450,000 USD
Box Office Collection 8,000,000 USD
Part of a 1970s cycle of films about stunt work and the stunt profession. In his book "Cult Movies 3", Danny Peary says in his piece on The Stunt Man (1980) that "there had been a proliferation of theatrical and television films about stuntmen". The films include Hooper (1978), Animal (1977), Evel Knievel (1971) (1971), Stunt Rock (1978), Evel Knievel (1974) (1974), The Stuntmen (1973), Deathcheaters (1976), Stunts (1977), Viva Knievel! (1977), Superstunt (1977), Death Riders (1976) and The Stunt Man (1980).
Knievel mentions to his wife Linda (Sue Lyon) about not being a bank robber and says, "What kind of life would that have been, hiding out like Bonnie and Clyde?". Lyon had been considered for the role of Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
The long shot of Evel Knievel playing basketball by himself is actually 1st Assistant Director Art Levinson, who was a more skilled basketball player than George Hamilton.
In 2002, Brentwood Home Video distributed this movie in a DVD box-set of "10 Movies on Five Double-sided Discs!" "A THIN LINE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH!" was the title on the box-jacket cover.
Final film of Betty Bronson.
"[first lines] Evel Knievel: [speaking to the camera] Ladies and gentlemen, you have no idea how good it makes me feel to be here today. It is truly an honor to risk my life for you. An honor. Before I jump this motorcycle over these 19 cars - and I want you to know there's not a Volkswagen or a Datsun in the row - before I sail cleanly over that last truck, I want to tell you that last night a kid came up to me and he said, "Mr Knievel, are you crazy? That jump you're going to make is impossible, but I already have my tickets because I want to see you splatter." That's right, that's what he said. And I told that boy last night that nothing is impossible."
"Evel Knievel: A Roman general in the time of Caesar had a motto - "If it is possible, it is done. If it is impossible... it will be done." And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I live by."
