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Stuntman | Hollywood
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Best Sound | 1979
Best Edited Feature Film | 1979 | Donn
Best International Actor | 1978 | Burt
Budget 6,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 78,000,000 USD
Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham both worked as stuntmen early in their careers. The film was made as a tribute to all of their fellow stuntmen.
This film was not a tribute to just stuntmen in general but to the well-known stuntman Jock Mahoney. Mahoney is the stepfather of co-star Sally Field.
In the scene where Hooper (Burt Reynolds) and crew are watching Hooper's "stunt reel" at Hooper's house, the stunt reel contains scenes of Burt Reynolds in Deliverance (1972) being flipped out of the canoe.
Hal Needham said on a radio show that he decided he wanted a shot from the point-of-view of the stuntman doing the motorcycle stunt that opens the film but the stuntman had already left for the day; so Needham put on pads over his street clothes and did the gag himself. The footage was not used, after all.
In the movie, Burt Reynolds and James Best were long time friends. They were also close friends in real life. In fact, Best, who also taught acting, was an early acting instructor to Reynolds.
"Jocko Doyle: You oughta drink more. Nothing hurts when you're numb."
"Max Berns: You guys look like garbage. Sonny Hooper: You should see through my eyes, it's metro color. Cully: I've just got a little headache. If you think we're bad you should see the guys...! Sonny Hooper: [Slaps Cully] Dont yell in my ear! Jesus Christ. [Belches] Cully: [Hears something coming towards them, it's Ski on a motorized skateboard] What the hell is that? Look what's coming. Sonny Hooper: [Covers his ears] Stop that thing! Shoot it! Kill it! Ski: [Holds up a breakfast burrito] Want some breakfast? Sonny Hooper: [Belches] Oh God, get that circumcised will you."
