One Shot : The Making of The Deer Hunter

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Glennie was truly blessed with the full support and cooperation of the film’s Academy Award-winning stars including Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, and Chris Walken Through hours upon hours of exclusive one-on-one interviews with each star Glennie gleaned glorious quotes, interesting facts, and some never-before-told stories about the making of The Deer Hunter such as how De Niro nearly died on set saying, “The helicopter scene let me tell you was hairy,” De Niro said. “There was me and John [Savage], and Chris had gotten off by this time and the chopper had got caught in the railings and twisted the whole bridge around.” He continued, “I looked at John and shouted, ‘Drop!’ We had no choice and we just dropped in the water.​ When we landed, there were two motorboats, which were stationary with a rope between them. We crashed through the water and came up underneath the rope and caught hold.”