Posts from alamo221 in thread „Hal Needham“

Been watching this alot for the past year, and Boone is just a terrific Paladin. A couple minor complaints, Paladin looks a bit ridiculous when he goes into his fast-draw crouch. Glad that didn't carry over into all the episodes. Also, when Hal Needham takes over doubling Boone in action scenes, he's a bit too obvious. Suddenly Paladin gets a bit thinner, and far more agile than Boone. As one character commented as he watched Paladin a street brawl with 2 other guys, "he moves like a dancer"-which Needham DOES during the fight, since he does all of, except for a couple closeups of Boone. Acting-wise, no one could top Boone on the show.

If you watch close, you can see him doubling Burt, and also Ken Curtis in many 60s Gunsmoke episodes.

I was a bit disappointed in the above book because I was hoping for more behind-the-scenes info on his films and stuntwork. The first half to maybe 3/4s of the book does just that, but once he gets into directing and his later career, for me, it just wasn't that interesting.