Random Craziest Stunts In Action Movies That Were Completely Real (25 items)

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  (#19) Stagecoach

  • John Wayne, John Carradine, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, Tim Holt, Donald Meek, George Bancroft, Tom Tyler, Berton Churchill, Louise Platt

  Stuntman Yakima Canutt, the originator of the "being dragged under a moving vehicle and not dying" practical effect, first devised the stunt for Stagecoach.

  The idea for how to pull it off without perishing is actually pretty simple: Run the horses fast so they stay in straight lines and don't trample you, and keep your elbows tight to your body so the stagecoach's front axle doesn't rip your arms off. However, this seems like something easier said than done. 
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  (#2) Speed

  • Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, Joe Morton, Richard Schiff, Beth Grant, Glenn Plummer, Alan Ruck, Thomas Rosales, Jr., Beau Starr, James DuMont, John Capodice, Antonio Mora, Richard Lineback, Mark Gordon, Rana Morrison, Patrick Fischler, Sandy Martin, Susan Barnes, Jordan Lund, Robert Mailhouse, Carlos Carrasco, Craig Hosking, Michael Tamburro, Hawthorne James, Mark Kriski, J. David Jones, Dagny Hultgreen, Jim Mapp, Scott Wilder, Julia Vera, Natsuko Ohama, Bruce Wright, Anne O'Sullivan, Rick Dano, Michael Sottile, David Kriegel, Sonia Jackson, Joseph Carberry, Loyda Ramos, Randy Algoe, Neisha Folkes-LeMelle, Eddie Yansick, Christopher C. Murphy, Patty Toy, Daniel Villarreal, Robert Nassry, Simone Gad, Patrick John Hurley, Todd Gordon, Margaret Medina, Loretta Jean Crudup, Barry Kramer, CeCe Tsou, Robin McKee, Bunga Hosoi, Carmen Williams, Milton Quon, Paula Montes, Tara Thomas, Jane Crawley, Michael N. Fujimoto, Brian Grant, Christina Fitzgerald, Sherri Villanueva, Paige Goodman, Richard Gelb

  Keanu Reeves is not only the One, but also a bit of an action junkie, and he often performs his own stunts. In Speed, he not only slid under a speeding bus, but also jumped from a moving car onto the moving bus. He rehearsed the stunt on his own, in secret, and pleaded with the director to let him try the stunt himself, even though the director was hesitant (can't imagine why?)

  And yes, just as Dennis Hopper insisted, the bus was going over 50 mph.
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  (#14) Point Break

  • Teresa Palmer, Ray Winstone, Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey

   

  The Point Break remake was redundant, unwelcome, and a failure at the box office. But it also contains one of the most dangerous stunts ever caught on film.

  Wingsuit flight is inherently one of the riskiest extreme sports ever conceived - in 2015, six well-known practitioners perished doing it. For Point Break, four wingsuit pilots were filmed flying through a narrow fissure in the Swiss mountains called the Crack. In doing so, they had to avoid crashing into rocks jutting from the canyon surface and one another. Say what you will about the movie, but don't dare disparage the badasses that made this scene possible.

   
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  (#23) Stone

  • Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward, Vincent Gil, Ken Shorter, Sandy Harbutt, Dewey Hungerford, Bindi Williams, James Bowles, John Ifkovitch

  Stone is a little-known 1974 Australian motorcycle movie. Those in the know remember a jaw-dropping scene in which a biker is tapped by a car and winds up driving off a cliff and into the bay below. There's no CG or camera trickery here - stuntman Peter Armstrong actually drove off a cliff and into the ocean. 

  So who's more bad-ass, bikers or stuntmen emulating bikers? Watch this scene to find out.
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  (#13) The Bourne Ultimatum

  • Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox, Joan Allen, Albert Finney, Paddy Constantine, David Strathairn, Franka Potente, Scott Adkins, Scott Glenn, Daniel Brühl, Édgar Ramírez, Colin Stinton, Chris Wilson, Corey Johnson, David Boston, Paul Thornton, Trevor St. John, Joey Ansah, John Warman, Chucky Venn, Michael Bennett, Alex Argenti, Brian Smyj, Branko Tomović, Ben Youcef, Laura Bayonas, Toufig Tulsiram, Michael Ahl, James Schram, Sebastian Feldman, Martin Ballantyne, William H. Burns, Tom Gallop, Bill Massof, Kirk Lambert, Michael Wildman, Mark Bazeley, Ronald E. Giles, Ilan Krigsfeld, Albert Jones, John Snowden, Chris Mansfield, Simon John Wilson, Arkie Reece, Mark Mottram, Casey Cipriani, Sara DeRosa, Lucy Liemann, Anthony Wanzer, Kai Martin, Sinead O'Keeffe, Laurence Possa, Jeffrey Lee Gibson, James Ciccone, Walter A. Saunders III, Uriel Emil Pollack, Dan Fredenburgh, Russ Huards, John Roberson, Bryan Reents, Omar Hernandez

  While a stuntman performed the actual jump from one building to another and through the window, followed by a camera operator on a wire rig, Damon performed the entirety of the subsequent fight himself.

  The scene took six 13-hour days to complete. 
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  (#5) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

  • Harrison Ford, Alfred Molina, Karen Allen, Frank Welker, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-Davies, Frank Marshall, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, Harry Fielder, William Hootkins, Anthony Higgins, Pat Roach, Dennis Muren, George Harris, Wolf Kahler, Don Fellows, Patrick Durkin, Anthony Chinn, Rocky Taylor, Tutte Lemkow, Kiran Shah, Terry Leonard, Vic Armstrong, Peter Diamond, Matthew Scurfield, Ishaq Bux, Sonny Caldinez, Ted Grossman, Tony Vogel, Bill Reimbold, John Rees, Vic Tablian, Nick Gillard, Christopher Frederick, Terry Richards, Romo Gorrara, Steve Hanson, Malcolm Weaver, Barrie Holland, Darin Chambers, Eddie Tagoe, Glenn Randall Jr., Martin Kreidt, Sergio Mioni, Souad Messaoudi, Fred Sorenson

  Steven Spielberg knows how to do chase scenes. Based on another stunt on this list, from the movie Stagecoach, this crazy piece of work from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark sees stuntman Terry Leonard holding on to the hood of a speeding truck while skidding along a dirt road on the heels of his boots. 

  He then slides down beneath the chassis, makes his way toward the rear of the truck, and is dragged by a rope along the ground. Finally, he pulls himself up and back onto the back of the vehicle.

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