She has an eye for landscape, a love
of light — relish the infernal glare
of the dust whenever a driver here hits the brakes at night — and an all - too - rare
mastery of geography in an
action scene.
Gene Autry, Roy Rogers — nearly every major Western star — owed much
of his success to Canutt's daring; eventually, his
mastery of the craft was such that scripts were penned without detailed descriptions
of their fight
scenes or chases, and «
Action by Yakima Canutt» was simply written instead.By the mid -»20s, Canutt was starring in Westerns as well as handling stunts.