<Li> The Guns of Navarone (1961). Actor David Niven almost drowned during filming of an ocean storm scene inside a large water tank . He sustained a cut lip that led the actor being hospitalized with septicemia, which halted production on the film for a month . He insisted on returning to complete filming of his scenes before he had fully recovered, later causing a relapse of his illness that resulted in another seven weeks in hospital . </Li> <Li> Cape Fear (1962). According to Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck accidentally punched him for real during the final fight scene . Mitchum felt the impact for days afterward . </Li> <Li> Flower on Stone (1962). Soviet actress Inna Burduchenko suffered third degree burns while filming in a burning barracks on 30 July 1960 . She died in the hospital on 15 August . Burudchenko was three months pregnant at the time of her death . </Li> <Li> How the West Was Won (1962). Stuntman Bob Morgan, husband of Yvonne De Carlo, was seriously injured and lost a leg during a break in filming a gunfight on a moving train . Chains holding logs on a flatbed car broke, crushing Morgan as he crouched beside them . </Li>

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