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Yakima Canutt

The Daredevils of Hollywood · June 24, 1938 · 12 min · 1,941 words

The transcript of “Yakima Canutt”, an episode of The Daredevils of Hollywood first broadcast June 24, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Daredevils of Hollywood plays The Daredevils of Hollywood free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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In Gauducic! But get him or not Hollywood! Well, we're all ready to do this! Now, well, you know what to do. You're doubling the bandit, so just speed this truck down the road. Now, when you get to the market, we'll set off the explosion.

Yeah, I got it. I think I can handle it alright. Yeah, that's right. I'm gonna go a couple of flips out to watch it happen. I'll be careful. Sure, sure, I will. Don't worry about me. That's the boy.

Okay, everybody. This is the take. Quiet, please. Okay, I'll get started and take it off. Alright, hold on. Can I do what I have to put you in? Almost on the marker. Yeah. There I go!

From Hollywood, the motion picture capital of the world, we bring you the thrilling, true-life experiences of those men behind the scenes. Those daring unsung heroes whose dress-taking adventures on the screen have thrilled millions. Whose daily jobs bring them face to face with death.

Those men who comprise the strangest fraternity on earth, the suicide squad, the movie stuntmen, the daredevils of Hollywood. Ladies and gentlemen, in bringing you this copyrighted radio feature, we are privileged to have as our guest one of the most daring stuntmen of Hollywood, Mr. Yakimakunut.

It is through his cooperation that we are able to reenact some of the highlights of his dangerous profession. The thrilling scenes you are about to hear are his own actual experiences. Yakimarkanat is here in the studio right now, and later in the program we will bring him to the microphone.

But first, let us learn something of his everyday job. It is the day in early spring, just a few years ago. The scene is an executive office in the mascot motion picture studios in North Hollywood.

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