Blazing Saddles
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Cecil B. DeMille
mcgaar77 — 20 years ago(October 06, 2005 10:24 PM)
What does the line about Cecil B. DeMille killing alot of people come from. Is it just about his movies or did he do some stuff back in old hollywood.
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mikesh — 20 years ago(February 03, 2006 09:41 PM)
He did a number of epic adventures where the casts would number sometimes into 5 figures. Being that general safety standards were not as stringent and no CGI and that stuntwork was done somewhat more off the cuff than in the present day, accidents would happen. When chariots crashed they would crash for real and in such uncontrolled situations people died. His was not the only set people died on, but since he was very famous, especially for these epics, he became the one who got the reputation and hence the butt of some jokes over it. So it came from on the set accidents and not any sort of Arbuckle type incident.
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xerses13 — 16 years ago(December 03, 2009 04:33 AM)
Noir-It-All; Not that they 'animals' are as important, but useless cruelty is senseless. Many a animal died in these productions. This trend still occurs in some nations filmings particularly with Horses. You see a Horse fall forward then you know a 'running W' is being used.