Best Stunt Award for 1928


It's an iconic image, a cyclone ravages a small town and blows the front of the building down. As it falls, a man (Buster Keaton) walking away from the building miraculously survives as he stands on a spot where an open window just happens to be, as the building falls around him. It's a stunt where just the slightest miscalculation would have killed him. The stunt was performed with an actual full-weight wall. Half the crew walked off the set rather than participate in a stunt that would have killed Keaton if he had been slightly off position.

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Donovan Montierth
Brothers' Ink Productions

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This should win an award for some of the the best stunt work of all time.

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I totally agree!

Donovan Montierth
Brothers' Ink Productions

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That was the best one, but that whole scene had several truly amazing stunts. It really makes me wonder how they did it. Some of them looked like stop motion, but I'm not sure they were because the wind was blowing through the whole scene.

Some of my other favorites:
1) Trying to run in the mud against the wind and all the boxes (wood! this is before cardboard) fall on him.
2) The hospital flying away then a building almost falls on him when he tries to run out... followed by the bed rolling into the barn full of horses
3) He saves the girl (who's choking him unintentionally) and no sooner does he start climbing back on the rope, it rips and they both fall into the water
4) The house completely falling down as soon as he steps out
5) The tree flying away with him on it

Ok, basically I'm just listing all the stunts that happened - they were all amazing. This is by far my favorite Keaton film, though The General gets a special mention because I like the Civil War era setting.

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Man, he was so good. I liked the General a lot too!

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Let's not forget the magnificent dive into the river. Johnny Depp used a stunt double for a similar dive in the first Pirates movie.

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