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Eddie Kidd (1978)
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Documentary · 5m
At the age of 18, stunt cyclist Eddie Kidd had already broken world records, been a stunt double for Harrison Ford and released a couple of singles. Yet this profile piece for the COI cinemagazine series “This Week in Britain” offers glimpses that his high life had both its ups and downs. A record-breaking jump of 24 cars was to be the big attraction of a May bank holiday at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu but torrential rain scuppered plans. Kidd returned on the 4th June for a second attempt but with a shoulder injury that you see aggravated here, which prevented a planned second jump and again disappointed audiences. The person tasked with turning all these travails into a light-hearted snippet for overseas audiences was Peter Greenaway, who edited hundreds of stories like this before making arthouse feature hits such as The Draughtman’s Contract (1982).
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Peter Greenaway
- Editor
- Peter Greenaway
Details
- Release date
- 1978-01-01
- Runtime
- 5m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English