Lester had previous proved his skill in making movies about fringe creatives with his short film Tricia’s Wedding, featuring the San Francisco drag theatre troupe The Cockettes, and his docudrama on demolition derby drivers Steel Arena, and after making Stunts, would turn that focus on Venice skaters for Roller Boogie and neo-futurist punks for Class of 1984. Stunts was the first film greenlit and produced by New Line Cinema, founded by Robert Shaye in 1967 with an initial focus on acquiring and releasing films geared to the counterculture as Pink Flamingos and Reefer Madness. Soon there are more casualties on this production, and Glen must discover who is responsible before he becomes the murderer’s martini shot.
Parswell (Fiona Lewis) to accompany him, the two of them encounter plenty of colorful personalities on the set, including Greg’s friends Paulie (Ray Sharkey), Patti (Joanna Cassidy), and Chuck (Bruce Glover), effects artist Pete (Richard Lynch), comely co-star Judy (Candice Rialson), and top dog director Earl (Malachi Throne). When stunt performer Glen Wilson (Forster) learns his brother and fellow daredevil Greg has died from what should have been a safely choreographed sequence, he volunteers to complete his brother’s task, hoping to discover how this “accident” could have happened. The evening starts with an immediate leap into the defiantly dangerous world of Stunts from 1977.
With two solid action hits up front, and a fun sexy comedy to close, you could call this the “Forster: Pussycats! Kill! Kill!” show.
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My very first movie I was starring, and then slowly by slowly descended into pictures like this.” As part of this month’s New Beverly tribute to our departed friend, on November 12 th we offer a Grindhouse Tuesday triple feature with him headlining high-energy, low-budget adventures, all involving a certain degree of athletic prowess in his characters. When Elijah Drenner’s documentary American Grindhouse premiered at the New Beverly on August 24 th, 2010, Robert Forster, who provided the narration for Drenner’s labor of love, joined other luminaries featured in the film for a post-show Q&A, and offered a bemused explanation for his longtime association with these genre pictures that demonstrated the warmth and unpretentiousness that made him such a beloved actor: “ decided I was going to be a star in movies.
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