Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:46 pm
Colleen Moore broke her neck in a handcar fall filming The Desert Flower(1925)
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"SILENT FILMS NEARLY KILLED ME."
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Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:48 am
Brigitte Helm had a rough time, too.
Kaum hatte Hutter die Brücke überschritten, da ergriffen ihn die unheimlichen Gesichte, von denen er mir oft erzählt hat.
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Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:08 am
Buster fractured his neck filming Sherlock Jr. and didn't even realize it until several years later.
"I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille!"
- Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles
"I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille!"
- Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles
Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:28 pm
Buster fractured his neck filming Sherlock Jr. and didn't even realize it until several years later.
Not to mention the near-death experience with the house front in Steamboat Bill, Jr. What amazes me as well is how brief the stunt is - maybe a few seconds? and it's on to the rest of the conclusion of the film.
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Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:59 am
No, Ritchie actually died of stomach cancer. The Ostrich Attack ain't true.
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Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:41 am
Harold and the "prop" bomb which removed part of his hand. Could've been worse.
Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:47 am
Two Flaming Youths (1927)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018517/
W.C. Fields broke his neck during the production. He was to ride a bicycle up a ramp into the back of a truck (that was slowly moving backwards). He misjudged the approach and went under the truck, banging his head on the undercarriage and breaking his neck. John Sinclair, his stunt double at the time, rushed under the moving vehicle and pulled Fields to safety
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Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:39 am
"Joe Bonomo was cast as Tarzan in Tarzan The Mighty,
but, while filming Perils of the Wild, fractured his left leg and
severely injured his sacroiliac joint while performing a stunt."..
but, while filming Perils of the Wild, fractured his left leg and
severely injured his sacroiliac joint while performing a stunt."..
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Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:00 pm
The flood scene extras in NOAH'S ARK.
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Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:08 pm
WaverBoy wrote:The flood scene extras in NOAH'S ARK.
There were extras killed in that???
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Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:24 pm
Me.
During the screenings of East Lynne and Atlantis.
During the screenings of East Lynne and Atlantis.
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