The Searchers | **JOHN WAYNE Movie Reaction** | First Time Watching

The iconic Apache chase scene in Stagecoach where legendary stuntman, Yakima Canutt, coordinates two different stunts. In the first scene, he is dressed as one of the Apaches & climbs on to the stagecoach horse then falls in between the horses & stagecoach carriage. The second stunt, he is doubling as John Wayne's character, Ringo Kid, and jumps from stagecoach to horse to grab the lead horse's reign. John Ford was so impressed by this stunt & Canutt that he promised to work with him on ever fil

Remembering Yakima Canutt, the greatest stuntman who ever lived, born today in 1895. Here he is in John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939), performing three incredible, death-defying stunts. Spielberg lifted the second one for Raiders, when Indy goes under the truck! | Vintage Geek