by Audrey Hingley September 15, 2011
Legendary Hollywood stuntman Loren Janes, 79, stands atop a steep hillside in California’s Alabama Hills, recalling how he tumbled down the boulder-strewn granite landscape inside of a Conestoga wagon in the 1962 epic How the West Was Won.
In that dramatic scene, which was shot three times, Janes and another stuntman were battered by cargo as they bounced around the wagon rolling “end over end” for 75 feet. “It took all day to do,” Janes explains. “We had bruises, but I am very proud of how it turned out. People applauded that scene at the film’s world premiere.” ...................
