Movie still of Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer in “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.” It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1963 Here are my five favorite car movies from that era. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, stuntmen such as Loftin, Ekins, Eddie Mulder, Ronnie Rondell Jr., “Big Bill” Hickman, and J.N. Ekins was the only stuntman who McQueen, himself an accomplished race car driver, would let double him. When Steve McQueen walked into Bud’s shop to look at bikes, the two became friends, racing the Baja Boot together in Mexico. That said, driving cars through explosives, laying down motorcycles, and jumping large barriers were all fair game.īud Ekins, who owned a British bike shop on Ventura Boulevard, made a name for himself winning desert scrambles races in the 1950s. And second, never try something once that you can’t do a second time. I prefer car movies from the 1950s and 1960s, when people-not computers-performed stunts that kept movie audiences on the edges of their seats.Ĭarrie Loftin whose stunt career began doubling as a policeman in WC Fields’ 1940 comedy, “The Bank Dick,” and lasted until 1990 when he was one of the race car drivers in “Days of Thunder,” had a couple of rules. If you think “The Fast and The Furious” movies were the best car flicks ever made, this story is not for you.
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