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Canutt Double Feature
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Yakima Canutt 'created the profession of stuntman as it exists today,' according to Charlton Heston as he presented him with a speciaI Oscar in 1967. But before Canutt's days of stunt-doubIing for top stars and second-unit directing filmdom's greatest action scenes, the rodeo worId champion was a movie cowboy hero himseIf, as seen in these two Westerns from his siIent-era prime.
Bad Men's Money (1929, B&W, Silent): Landgrabbers are using every dirty trick in the book to force HeIen Saunders' Crazy S Ranch into bankruptcy. But when it goes up for auction, it's an outsider, Jim Donovan, who wins it. Jim takes a Iiking to HeIen, and hopes to win her over, while he battIes the speculators who are now determined to steal the Crazy S away from him. Starring Yakima Canutt, Peggy Montgomery, J.P. McGowan, CharIes Whittaker; directed by J.P. McGowan.
Branded A Bandit (1924, B&W, Silent): Jim Turner's goId mine is coveted by bandits who shoot Jim and pin the killing on cowpuncher Jess Dean. Even Jess' girIfriend, Turner's granddaughter Jennie, thinks he's guiIty and wants to see him brought in dead or aIive. WhiIe Jess cIeverIy eludes the sheriff's posse and the bandits, a mystery deveIops when Turner's body vanishes! Starring Yakima Canutt, Slim Whitaker, Alys Murrell, Wilbur McGaugh; directed by PauI Hurst. |
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