Calculated-risk takers

Usage examples of stuntmen.

But today his stuntmen will arrive, and he’ll be able to shoot all the scenes without Jordie, and I’m sure it will turn out that he hasn’t lost very much time after all.

The arrival of his stuntmen, and the satisfaction of putting his idle crew to work calmed him slightly, but the smallest equipment failure or human error had him in an instant rage.

But because of the heightened security—a chain-link fence had been hastily constructed around this part of the beach, and a metal detector was set up at the gate, through which everyone had to pass—none of the actors or stuntmen were being given a prop gun until after they were on the enclosed set.

The idea was simple, and was logical for three boys who wanted to be stuntmen: we had to jump from a garage roof to a moving truck below.

For more fun we stopped for a sec­ond to practice rolling over the car like stuntmen, in case we got hit from the side while walking, or if we were chasing someone with a gun.

EEC identifies the stuntmen as Japanese Red Army types acting for the PLO.