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Stunt Rock

Stunt Rock

  • Status: Released
  • 30-06-1978
  • Runtime: 86 min
  • Score: 5.3
  • Vote count: 15

Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery. Page helps the band develop pyrotechnic magic tricks for their shows, and also recounts to his own exploits as a stuntman and daredevil as well as various stunts by other greats.

Grant Page

Grant Page

Monique van de Ven

Monique van de Ven

Margaret Gerard

Lois Wills

Paul Haynes

King of the Wizards - Sorcery

Curtis Hyde

Prince of Darkness - Sorcery

Greg Magie

Lead Singer - Sorcery

Smokey Huff

Lead Guitar - Sorcery

Richie King

Bass Guitar - Sorcery

Perry Morris

Drums - Sorcery

Doug Loch

Keyboards - Sorcery

Richard Blackburn

The Agent

Ron Raley

The TV Director

Chris Chalen

The Escapologist

T.J. Shaner

Barbra Paskin

Barbra Paskin

Lawrence D. Feinberg

Barbara S. Edelstein

Phil Hartman

Monique's Assistant

Jeff Michalski

Yana Nirvana

The TV Director's AD

Bob Perlow

Francine Selkirk

Douglas Farren

JPV852

Interesting mix of stunts and music that has its moments, mostly seeing the stuntwork while the music segments pretty much played the entire song and ran a little long. There's no real plot or character development and might try some people's patience, but will say Grant Page has his charms even if he isn't much of an actor. **2.5/5**

Wuchak

**_A marriage of 70’s stunt work and 70’s theatrical rock_** Popular Australian stuntman Grant Page travels to Los Angeles to work on a TV series and helps a fantasy-themed rock group with special effects & stunts for their live show. Meanwhile he develops a relationship with a journalist (Margaret Gerard). "Stunt Rock" (1978) contains interesting info on stunt work and its history with several entertaining stunt sequences, including myriad flashbacks to Grant’s last several movies, but it gives equal time to the real-life band Sorcery (not the group from Chicago), their songs and concerts. The story that links these two is given short shrift and the band members are clearly musicians/entertainers, not actors (in other words, they’re noticeably wooden). Page does fine as long as he’s working with real actors as opposed to the band members. Sorcery’s music is a meshing of 70’s bands like Alice Cooper, Sweet, Zeppelin, Styx and Boston, just hampered by vestiges of Woodstock, if you know what I mean. They later did the soundtrack for the heavy metal slasher “Rocktober Blood” (1984) in which they adapted their style to the early 80’s metal scene, improving their sound with songs like “I’m Back” and “Killer on the Loose” (check ’em out on Youtube). Monique van de Ven from the Netherlands joins statuesque Margaret on the female front as an actress on the show Grant is working on. As a documentary on 70’s stunt work, this is entertaining enough, but I had enough of Sorcery’s music & performances by about the 55-minute mark. They’re no slouches, they’re just not on the level of Alice Cooper or Kiss to maintain the viewer’s attention, as far as 70’s concerts go. The film runs 1 hour, 31 minutes, and was shot in Los Angeles and Sydney. GRADE: B-