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and l go backwards over the railing
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and catch between the thumb
and the forefinger of the hand.
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Hitchcock said to me,
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''Can you do a back flip over that...
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that railing?''
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But l was a young actor,
flexible and so forth.
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l said, "Of course".
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And he was pleased, because it meant
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that he could be right on me,
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instead of, you know, an angle
or a double doing it from the back.
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He was right on me, and l go.
:25:38
Come on, Fry!
:25:40
Now, the next cut
:25:43
was my going through the air.
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And that was done by
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Davey Sharp,
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who was the greatest stuntman.
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And he looked a little like me.
:25:57
We were built about the same way.
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And he went through the air.
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Nothing holding him .
:26:04
No cords, no strings, nothing.
:26:07
Just flew through the air
and caught right in there.
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Absolutely fantastic to see him do it.
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One take, as I recall.
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once he was there,
then Hitch cut into me.
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This hand that held the torch
was removable
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and could lay at an angle,
such as you're facing me like that.
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So that my head was here
looking into the camera,
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and he could do all my scenes
lying there.
:26:51
I'll get your sleeve.
:26:53
When Alfred Hitchcock
ran the picture for Ben Hecht,
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who was probably the most ...