Stunts & stunt coordination

And obviously Ursula Andress was another factor that we were aware of that we could take advantage of from a publicity point of view because of her beauty and the way she acted and the way she looked was very important from our point of view. Giroux recalls a very Bondian publicity stunt. The main publicity that we did in Europe was to take Sean Connery on his first promotional tour. And we went to Italy.

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what no longer exists, but in those days was a real publicity stunt. We went up to a gambling resort just outside of Turin in the Italian side of the Swiss Alps. And the idea was that this actor, this British actor, basically unknown, named Sean Connery, was going to break the bank. And we did it.

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Tim Lucas

Peter J. Hanley's book tells us that this stretch of track was located about 10 kilometers southwest of the La Calahorra station. This is one hell of a stunt, considering all those rocks on the ground. The stuntmen on this picture included Fabio Testi, later the star of Andrzej Zuławski's The Important Thing is to Love,

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Tim Lucas

and future American producer-director John Landis, who said he worked on about 50 Italian westerns in Almeria during the year and a half he spent there, becoming very adept at falling off of horses. Clint Eastwood is said to have performed most of his own stunts. Eli Wallach sometimes inadvertently performed his own, as when his horse once galloped away with him in the saddle with his hands tied behind his back.

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