THE MOTHER OF ALL HORSE STUNTS VOL 2

This video compilation is 'old skool' and I mean old. Many of the horse stunts in this video are from the 20s, 30s and 40s when health and safety as we know it today weren't high on the agenda.
So I must add a DISCLAIMER here for anyone wanting to say that this is cruelty to animals.........I don't think many would disagree with you in certain circles and many of the 'gags' featured here have been outlawed and haven't been used in film or television since 1966. But horse falls do still occur today just in a different way.
I wanted to show you this to prove how far horse stunts have come and where the stunts we see today originated from.
Enjoy
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[@realfunny7]

that Jesse James one with Tyrone Power & Henry Fonda is classic also at the end

[@scubasteve9358]

Great stunts, great music, great stuff! Thanks again for these awesome videos. 😎👍

[@glenntungay5140]

if you read Ralph Moody's 'Shaking the nickle bush', he went for a time to do western stunt riding back in the days and there was no safety for the actors. Most of the stunt men would only make one or two falls before heading home injured. They were very well paid, the most money being paid for falls down hills. There was a medical tent constantly filled with men with fractured/broken bones. High risk, but because of the high pay there was never a shortage of young men willing to risk their necks.

[@realfunny7]

i was hoping to see the one at 3:24 i do believe that was Rio Grande - he pulls his horse over top himself - wonder if it was Chuck Robertson

[@alexlamas6324]

When I was 19 I had a small job on a friend's film training actors how to ride a horse. I had been riding since I was a kid. I had a lot fun hanging out with the stuntmen at the time and got a lot of information on getting into stunt work and the stuntman's union. After a days wrap I took the horse out for a pleasure ride. I was thrown off the horse at full gallup when the the stirrup broke and I landed on my head. I got back on the horse and road for 3 more days. When I got home I home I went to the doctors because I had sever neck pain and he had informed me that I had a fracture in my 3rd vertebrate. I spent the next 3 months in various neck braces. Thus ending any hopes or ambitions of becoming a stuntman. Luckily I was also a storyboard artist and that's what I spent the next 25 years doing. I heard in the Bond Experience that you had a similar story.

[@behindthestunts]

That’s right Alex....I know exactly what you went through. Luckily my mount wasn’t at full gallup

[@alexlamas6324]

@@behindthestunts I did have some close connection. I had a few jobs as a licensed weapons specialist/gun wrangler on several features and a few music videos.

[@churbay1]

I just want to say what an absolutely fantastic job you are doing with your channel. It might be small at present and viewing numbers may not be sky-high, but you're doing something that will be so important well into the future, and that is documenting and compiling the history of stuntwork from around the world, all in one place. This video was amazing and must have taken a lot of time to put together. Documenting these kinds of "old school" stunts is so important when you start finding out that streaming services are apparently editing certain animal stunts out of older films (Conan the Barbarian) cause it's not politically correct in our current climate. This is a travesty and is nothing short of book-burning in my view. We need to have our histories documented and unedited for all to see whether certain people like it or not, and the same should go for films. Cause without knowing our unedited history, we can never know how we came to be at this present moment. Fantastic work once again. Much appreciated :)

[@behindthestunts]

Thank you so much, I’m very grateful to you 😎

[@alanbeattie7104]

You can see the evolution from the early days where the horses clearly didn't get back up, to the Yakima Canutt era with the "running W" contraption to the Hal Needham era where the horse is trained to fall sideways. The stagecoach drags still look good, though.

[@behindthestunts]

Exactly things progressed quickly and then almost stopped completely now. So many of the 'gags' you see in this montage are outlawed these days. You can't do that anymore.

[@vilden12]

Please say that the horses DID not get hurt during the "good old days " stunts....

[@behindthestunts]

That's why I've written a disclaimer in the notes. I just can't give you that assurance I'm afraid.

[@andiemckee6398]

No, many of the early horse stunts were filmed with stunt men, but the horses were completely expendable. That era horses were cheap, being phased out by the mechanical things like trucks and trains and could be easily replaced when they couldn't be used anymore for something. The Charge of the Light Brigade was famous for killing most of the horses by means of wire tied around a back or front leg that made it look like they were shot when it yanked them to a stop from a full gallop. Many legs broke, necks, some backs. The men all landed on mattresses or sand piles, though.

[@glenntungay5140]

​@@andiemckee6398 if you read Ralph Moody's 'Shaking the nickle bush', where he went for a time to do western stunt riding, there was no safety for the actors either. Most of the stunt men would only make one or two falls before heading home. They were very well paid, the most money being paid for falls down hills. There was a medical tent constantly filled with men with fractured/broken bones. High risk, but because of the high pay there was never a shortage of young men willing to risk their necks.

[@tjwillss]

Wow