The stunt man hit the Louisiana dirt and didn’t move. And when Constance’s Towers ran over to kiss him for the final…

  The red flag with the yellow star snapped three feet from James Stewart’s face and his hand went to his chest like…

  The call came at 900 p.m. the night before the biggest stunt sequence in the war wagon and Chuck Robertson’s brother was…

  The station wagon hit the curve wrong and flipped twice before sliding to a stop in the dirt. And the first three…

  Marlene Dietrich’s voice cut through the Universal Studios commissary loud enough that 37 people turned their heads at once and John Wayne’s…

  The apple hit the dirt and rolled toward the camera, and every person on that set knew John Wayne had just been…

  The bodyguard hit the carpet face first with a sound like a sack of wet sand. And the chair John Wayne was…

  The water hit the temple set like a collapsing building. 15,000 tons all at once. And the screaming didn’t start until the…

  John Wayne was mid-draw in a gunfight scene when he saw the man in the wheelchair behind the set barriers and he…

  That’s how many enemy aircraft these five American pilots shot out of the sky between 1941 and 1945. Not damaged, not probable,…