This month’s Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation sees Tom Cruise hanging off the side of a plane. A PLANE. As it takes off. But it wasn’t until well into Cruise’s career, with the first Mission: Impossible, that huge stunts were part of his movie star persona. We’ll look at the stunt that defined a career: the heist from CIA headquarters. SUBSCRIBE: http://goo.gl/9AGRm
The white room heist in Mission: Impossible was the culmination of studio deals, script re-writes, a lot of homages to movie history, and some exemplary work by the stunt and editing crews.
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