Watching this for the umpteenth time, something really sticks out in my mind. The stunts.
There's really some great stunt work in this movie. The car chases, the plane, and everything else. (I know dummies were used in the obvious spots in the ending.)
Would love to see a making-of for this movie for the stunt work alone.
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What I really liked were the car chases and the crashes. Most would be classified as "fender bender" types (except for The Smiler's crash, but not even his car exploded into a ball of flame. They were all realistic crashes and chases.
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Ha! Made you look!!
Cary Loftin, stunt coordinator on this film and Duel (1971), drove the jeep that Berle and Terry-Thomas were in when it rolled coming out of the tunnel...as well as the Peterbilt that pushed the broke down bus in Duel...in the same spot, just outside the tunnel, on Soledad Cyn road...north of L.A. (Palmdale-Lancaster)
shareThere is a making of IAMMMMW on Youtube that is fascinating & covers the stunt work in this classic comedy film.
shareI was literally about to create a thread about this. The stunts were amazing. Not only for their complexity but for the fact that the stuntmen to me appeared to have very little in regards to personal protection gear and the vehicles as stated before, roll cages.
shareHere is an interesting documentary about the making of the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYWJvbMgpsg
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Just amazing to see a REAL twin engine plane break through the Coke billboard sign "The pause that refreshes "
(Strategically placed right before the intermission)
Never seen anything like it.