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Stunt doubles
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Terry Sanders, Robert Gitt, F. X. Feeney, Preston Neal Jones
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He's so taken aback that he doesn't know to grab for it, you know? Yeah. It's great. Just a little aside here, where Mitchum falls as he's going up the steps, that's a stuntman doing that, a double. Naturally. He didn't actually do that. Yeah. It's coming right up.
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But then when it's Mitchum himself going up the stairs, he looks, yes, that's the stuntman. Now he looks like Frankenstein's monster with the short cuffs. Yeah, yeah, he does. Wow. It was actually James Whale who directed Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein who introduced Whale. I mean, Lawton to Gregory. That's a strange shot there of the two kids, which is a freeze. And it actually, Lawton removes some dialogue between Mitchum and the kids at that point that he didn't like. And that's why they had to put that in there to cover that. I always wondered why that was there. There's a gap.
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