Hollywood (1942)

As well as back-breaking! "Right again! Gosh, I'm still recuperating from some of my bruises. I feel as though I'd been run quickly through a meat grinder." Richmond, a good-looking, six-foot portion, eased his handsome frame deeper into his chair. There were traces of iodine on his forehead, to give relief to his wounds and to set off his coal-black hair. His 185 pounds of muscle creaked from the anguish of his cinematic torment. And his Irish grin barely was able to triumph over a fleeting grimace of pain, as some hidden ache returned to remind him of his first brush with the cliff-hangers. But what about this narrow escape from a torpedoing? "Oh, that.'" He smiled wryly. "That happened in January. We were shooting some marine sequences two or three miles out from Santa Monica. There was a heavy ground-swell rolling in, and darn near everyone of us was seasick. But we got through our scenes, and just as we were winding up a particularly difficult shot, one of the stunt men piped up and said he'd be willing to bet he'd just seen a periscope less than fifty yards away! "Well, nobody paid much attention to him — until the next day. Then we read that the Navy had bombed a Jap sub off Redondo Beach not long after we had been shooting in that neighborhood! I couldn't say definitely, naturally, but I'd be willing to bet it was that same U-boat our stunt man had seen." Stunt man? Then stunt men are still used on serials? "Oh, sure," Richmond admitted. "Those boys still do all the daredevil stuff on the particularly dangerous longshots. But, on the closeups, it was up to me to risk my neck; that's how I got all these bruises. "For instance, one shot called for me to . fall on a pile of bricks. I suppose I could have just stretched out there and let the cameras catch me after appearing to fall, but, shucks, you don't get any realism that way. So I took the fall — and got a three-inch gash on the back of my noggin for my pains. And I mean pains.'" And how about that ice bath? "Well, it wasn't exactly ice," Kane admitted, "but it felt like it! I reported for work that day at six in the morning, and the first thing they had me do was strip to the waist and hop into a tank of water. They later told me the thermometer read 30 degrees that morning, but it felt like minus 30 degrees in that tank, and it took them all day to shoot the scene! Honestly, I had goose pimples on me for a week after that, and my skin was so blue the next day the director accused me of being made-up for technicolor." Now, as to those other injuries . . . "Well, there was that day, for example, when, as Spy Smasher, I was supposed to be chasing the villains up a steep ravine. But I slipped into a rut and, before I knew it, was out cold with a badly sprained ankle and a pulled tendon in my leg. 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