Billy the Martian

My Tivo had picked up “Stick” — it’s a movie that I’ve always liked, for two main reasons. The first is that it turned me on to Elmore Leonard novels.

The second was that I was entirely amazed by the teeth-gritting gun blazing fall taken by “Moki” near the end of the movie. Moki was played by Dar Robinson,
who also performed the stunt. (And if you watch it, you’ll see that the actor couldn’t have had a stand-in for the stunt — you can see his face as he falls backward off the balcony.) I followed his career for the next couple years — he did stunts for Lethal Weapon, too.

On a whim, while I was watching the movie, I surfed for Robinson’s name. The page that caught my eye was one that listed his movie credits, where I learned that he had also worked on Rollerball (The 1975 one with James Caan, not the recent piece of trash.) Wow! He’d done stunts in another of my favorite movies.

This guy was a great stuntman.