The Joy of Positivity: Hooper (1978)
Get ready for the Fall Guy with Hal Needham's classic tribute to the wonderful world of professional stuntmen.
I fell in love with movies about stuntmen while researching and writing The Fractured Mirror, my massive upcoming book about the history of American films about filmmaking. It’s a fascinating, overlooked, and underrated genre that experienced huge booms in the 1930s and 1970s and has its own set of conventions and cliches.
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