Yup in his biography Cagney said he refused to do a scene where a machine gun was fired at him and missed. The gun expert said it would be fine Cagney made him demonstrate it and and the bloke missed and would have killed Cagney if he had been standing in the place he was supposed to be.

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I am a film buff the golden era of Hollywood is my thing 1930's to 1950's.

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From the coverage I'd say it's starting to look more and look like cutting corners and people not experienced at their job in positions of much responsibility, rather than foul play.

Couple of questions about this.

I heard another person was also injured and taken to hospital?

Why the f**k is there any need to have live ammo anywhere near a film set, let alone within the area of the blanks?

Terrible thing to happen, and sure Baldwin will carry this for the rest of his life.

I hadn't heard about this...Jesus Christ, how irresponsible can anyone be?
Someone needs to be responsible for this s**t show.

Just as well this doesn't happen at the Olympics with the starters pistol, sorry you in the top tier, we were playing shoot the can between races and forgot to put the blanks back in!

Yeah, all about the money, I was on a building site years back, went up the stairway to floor 5 and there was no lighting, but bricks scattered and rubble and two open lift shafts, waiting for a victim to drop 5 floors! I went and told the site forman, politely, that its an accident-and death- waiting to happen, 15 mins later my charge hand came over to me and told me I was fired! Thats what you get with no representation these days-even those days! I did call the HSE on leaving and was pleased to hear the whole site was shut down the next day for a couple of days, hope the useless cnut got it in the neck from the chairman, it was a big job and time is money, especially if you don"t finish on time!