Spills for Thrills
Saluting the work of Hollywood stuntmen and stuntwomen and how they do their work, featuring real-life stunt artists Harvey Parry, Mary Wiggins, and Allen Pomeroy.
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"I saw this short on TCM and was very pleasantly surprised. It's interesting, educational, and entertaining... and it's NOT a film promo thinly disguised as an educational short like many of the old shorts that pop up on TCM. This short is a tribute to the work of the stuntmen and stuntwomen of Hollywood, and it demonstrates their work with numerous film clips from the silent era up through the 30's. We are shown a wide variety of examples of stunt work like car stunts and crashes, western wagon crashes, human high dives, plane flying stunts and crashes, fist fighting, falls, ru..."
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Mary Wiggins is shown on a Stearman C3-B, registration NC4099. The plane is flown by Paul Mantz, a Hollywood stunt flyer and provider of air services to the motion picture industry. This plane also can be seen in Central Airport (1933), Power Dive (1941), and Yukon Flight (1940).
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Saluting the work of Hollywood stuntmen and stuntwomen and how they do their work, featuring real-life stunt artists Harvey Parry, Mary Wiggins, and Allen Pomeroy.