![]() ![]() The amount of stunt flesh on view suggests a summer or early autumn shoot, but the actual timing of the shoot isn't known.Īustralian distributor: self/Nine network Other stunts were staged in Sydney and surrounds.įilmed: the film carries a copyright notice for 1973. ![]() Smoky Dawson's ranch was the site for the western stunt footage. Locations: The Gap, on Sydney's south head is heavily featured. the film's tail credits end with a credit "produced by Brian Trenchard Smith" Production company: the main title has a credit copyrighting the film to Trenchard Productions Pty. The show then wraps up with a few thoughts on being a stunt man - for opening and closing narration, see this site's 'about the film'. Not to miss out, director Brian Trenchard Smith gets the water jel poured over his arm, and then it's set alight. Actor Roger Ward can be seen in this action, with Bob Woodham and Warren Campbell the pair to be set alight. The next sequence features a bank robbery, which turns into a car chase, which turns into assorted car crashes, which leads to the two bank robbers crashing into a tree, setting their car on fire by carelessly carrying a can of petrol on the back seat (as bank robbers are wont to do), and then being set alight, with a plug for Water Jel and the Water Jel fire blanket. (Warren Campbell and stunt horseman Graham Mathrick feature in this footage). The next, extended footage was filmed at Smoky Dawson's tourist "western town", with old style western stunt action, including a stage coach, falling off a tall building, with obligatory saw-cut railing, dragging a horse over, the trick to being dragged by a horse by the stirrup, being rigged to be dragged off a horse hard when 'shot', preparing the rigs for action beneath the sand, etc. The next gag involves bike stunts, including one wheel action, and this was part of getting footage for a television footage for the Peter Bonello business then on the Pacific Hwy, Gordon.īob Woodham runs his bike off a high quarry cliff into water below, injuring his ankle in the process. That's followed by Bob Woodham ramming his motor bike into an old Holden, sailing over the bonnet to land on a rig of mattress and cardboard boxes, with 400 fps footage to show he does it. Grant Page is on hand to explain how to do the rope work. (The action had been seen in the opening saboteur/army footage). The next major stunt explores how Bob Woodham does a big jump off the Gap on to cardboard boxes and mattresses below, with the sea raging nearby. The first gag involves abseiling stunt work at Sydney's Gap, followed by war footage, with the Australian army on hand for the explosions and the stunt men jumping off a trampoline through the smoke of an explosion. ![]() The team is led by then leading stunt man Bob Woodham, with rising star Grant Page (four years in the commandos, the film advises) showing his skills at rope work. A dramatised documentary which looks at the work of a team of Australian stunt men, with the stunts arranged for the documentary rather than taken from feature films or television series. ![]()
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