# Can you ID this movie from a brief clip? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037 "2019-08-02T00:44:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037/1 "2019-08-02T00:44:47Z")
[“The Fall Guy”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_Guy) was a short lived, mid 1980’s, action comedy TV show starring Lee Majors as a stuntman/bounty hunter. The show was dreadful, not even interesting enough to dislike and completely unworthy of discussion here. The [opening credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmIsMzyohqM) depict a few scenes of impressive stunts from films, one of which I just can’t place. At 1:10 in the above clip, there’s a shot of a person clinging desperately to the skid of a helicopter as it flies over mountainous terrain. I know I’ve seen that shot somewhere but for the life of me, I can’t think where. If you can tell me what movie this comes from then I’d be ever so grateful. ETA - I guess not _that_ short lived. Five years ain’t bad for American TV. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037/2 "2019-08-02T00:58:10Z")
Says [here](http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2012/07/25/was-one-of-the-stunts-in-the-fallguy-opening-not-even-performed-by-a-stuntman/) it’s the James Coburn flick THE SKY RIDERS. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037/3 "2019-08-02T01:52:19Z")
Wonderful, many thanks you kind and wise person. I never would have thought of that film. I have no recollection of ever seeing it but it sounds exactly like the kind of movie my dad would have watched on the Sunday afternoon cheezfest TV viewing. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037/4 "2019-08-02T03:56:00Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > [and completely unworthy of discussion here. Sure it is–it is a perfectly cromulent 80s series, and I say that not based on decades-old memories but from having rewatched episodes recently [URL=“[https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=The+fall+guy&sp=EgIYAg%253D%253D&pbjreload=10](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+fall+guy&sp=EgIYAg%253D%253D&pbjreload=10)”]from YouTube]([The Fall Guy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_Guy)). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037/5 "2019-08-02T04:23:08Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > The show was dreadful, not even interesting enough to dislike and completely unworthy of discussion here. Context matters. 90% of 80s action TV was dreck, but it was compelling, and there was nothing else. After the biggest shows ever are _Dukes of Hazzard_, _A-Team_, and _Knight Rider_, then you just roll with it when they give you _Automan_, _Riptide_, and _Jake and the Fatman_ alongside. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037/6 "2019-08-02T05:46:53Z")
You forgot _ **Stingray** _, _ **Airwolf** _, _ **Voyagers!** _, _ **The Highwayman** _… ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037/7 "2019-08-02T05:50:35Z")
The scene on the roof of the train, BTW, is from _ **Silver Streak** _ (1976). The guy who gets knocked off is Gene Wilder’s stunt double. > **[Silver Streak (1976) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075223/)** > > Silver Streak: Directed by Arthur Hiller. With Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan. On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037/8 "2019-08-02T07:37:17Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > You forgot _ **Stingray** _, _ **Airwolf** _, _ **Voyagers!** _, _ **The Highwayman** _… There were so many I wanted to list\*, though interestingly I didn’t watch any of those particular four you mention. \*_Scarecrow and Mrs King_, _The Wizard_, _Hardcastle and McCormick_, _Seaquest DSV_, _TJ Hooker_, _Manimal_, _Street Hawk_, as well as the ones that were actually quite good like _Magnum PI_, _Simon and Simon_, or _MacGyver_. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-movie-from-a-brief-clip/838037/9 "2019-08-02T12:04:55Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > the scene on the roof of the train, btw, is from _ **silver streak** _ (1976). The guy who gets knocked off is gene wilder’s stunt double. > > [Silver Streak (1976) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075223/) “Son of a bitch!”