In the annals of all-time great movie stunts, Steve McQueen jumping a six-foot barbed-wire barrier on a motorcycle in John Sturges' "The Great Escape" ranks awfully high. The thrilling sequence comes near the end of the film, when McQueen's dogged Captain Virgil Hilts, aka "The Cooler King," is on the run from German soldiers. As they close in from every direction, the stubborn American Pow is forced to gun the bike up a hill and scale the impediment sideways. He deftly manages the first leap, but has his tires shot out before he can attempt the second jump, at which point he would've been home free into Switzerland.
Worshiped as a man's man of an actor, McQueen prided himself on performing his own stunts. He came by his daredevil disposition naturally; his father was a barnstorming pilot, which entailed everything from wild aerial acrobatics to insanely risky stunts like wing walking.
Worshiped as a man's man of an actor, McQueen prided himself on performing his own stunts. He came by his daredevil disposition naturally; his father was a barnstorming pilot, which entailed everything from wild aerial acrobatics to insanely risky stunts like wing walking.
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- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
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- 9/24/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
There's no froth like French froth. And few French-froth-purveyors are as adept as Pierre Salvadori, who knows exactly how to make romantic complications and class conflict as pleasantly diverting as a day at the beach—and, for better or worse, as placid. In Salvadori's Priceless, Audrey Tautou plays a skilled gold-digger in the Holly Golightly mold who mistakes resort-hotel employee Gad Elmaleh for a swell. They share a night of passion, and when Tautou returns a year later, they share another night. But the second time around, Tautou's well-heeled fiancé finds her out, then kicks her out. She races back to Elmaleh, who's so smitten that he's willing to tap into his savings and investments in order to give Tautou the kind of life she craves. It takes less than 24 hours for her to bankrupt him. That's when Salvadori and his co-writer Benoît Graffin concoct a smart twist. Broke...
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- avclub.com
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