Four James Bond films feature in `top 10 movie stunts of all time` poll
05-Jun-2004 • Bond News
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Second place went to the frenzied Bangkok street car chase in The Man With The Golden Gun which climaxes with a Hornet X car performing a 'corkscrew' jump over a river.
The stunt from the 1974 movie was the first to have been pre-calculated by computer and was filmed in just one take.
The breath-taking opening sequence from GoldenEye, in which 007 executes a 750ft bungee jump over the side of the Hoover Dam,came third.
Live And Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me also feature in the top 10.
Steve McQueen's hair-raising motorcycle jump over a barbed wire fence in The Great Escape has been voted the most memorable movie stunt ever.
Super-cool McQueen, a keen biker, did most of his own riding throughout the 1963 movie's climactic chase scene.
But the jump itself over a 6ft-high barbed wire fence was actually performed by his friend, motorcycle shop owner Bud Elkins.
The earliest stunt on the list was Buster Keaton's in Steamboat Bill, Jr a 1928 movie. Keaton is left framed by a window after a building falls onhim.
Hazel Laking, of Choices Video, said: 'Films are driven by a good plot and convincing cast members, but it is often the actual stunts themselves that are talked about afterwards.
'This top 20 outlines a fantastic raft of superb stunts, so brilliantly executed we would believe they are conducted by the actors themselves every time.'
Thanks to `Bambi` for the alert.
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