Needs a movie about the Making-OF, or at least a documentary

This film has some excellent stunt work and a great score but otherwise I found it pretty mediocre. It's not nearly as bad as its reputation would suggest however.

The whole reason my interest was piqued by it though was reading about the various mishaps which happened during production. Apparently the star of the film, non-actor Klinton Spilsbury got cast for much the same reason that brought us Christopher Reeve, Mark Hamill, Harry Hamlin, and Sam J. Jones - that late 70's/early 80's experimental time of putting a first-time actor in the lead role of a major Hollywood film based on looks alone. Of all of them Spilsbury's career went the most nowhere, but I hear it was more due to his behavior than the box office return. His acting performance was actually not-terrible, but just kinda good-'nuff in my opinion.

What I'm most interested in though are the tales of his terrible behavior. Apparently he got into at least one drunken bar brawl off-set and spent the night in jail, apparently trying to get his co-star Michael Horse to bail him out, but Horse refused because, as he was quoted at some point, something like he wasn't his "Tonto" in real life. Apparently Spilsbury had to shoot everything largely in-sequence too because he didn't understand how to jump backward and forward in character development, which must have been a crazy headache for the production to contend with.