In 1980, The Stunt Man, starring Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback, became one of the most acclaimed motion pictures of the decade -- an odd mixture of black humor and riveting suspense. But the strange history of the film's embattled development, production and distribution has never been fully revealed ... until now.
Direction
Richard Rush narrates his own beautiful disaster.
Production
Twenty-year development hell, documented in painful detail.
Director
Richard Rush
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Rush spent nearly two decades trying to get The Stunt Man made, then another twenty fighting to tell this story.
O'Toole famously called his Oscar-nominated role as the megalomaniacal director Eli Cross his favorite performance—ironic given the film's brutal reception by actual Hollywood.
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