Eddie Kidd
At the age of 18, stunt cyclist Eddie Kidd had already broken world records, been a stunt double for Harrison Ford and released a couple of singles. Yet this profile piece for the COI cinemagazine series “This Week in Britain” offers glimpses that his high life had both its ups and downs. A record-breaking jump of 24 cars was to be the big attraction of a May bank holiday at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu but torrential rain scuppered plans. Kidd returned on the 4th June for a second attempt but with a shoulder injury that you see aggravated here, which prevented a planned second jump and again disappointed audiences. The person tasked with turning all these travails into a light-hearted snippet for overseas audiences was Peter Greenaway, who edited hundreds of stories like this before making arthouse feature hits such as The Draughtman’s Contract (1982).
Year: 1978
Genre: Documentary
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Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Maggie Palmer, Eddie Kidd, Sammy Miller
Runtime: 5 minutes
Release: Jan 01, 1978
IMDb: 6.50/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 1
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Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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