Producers Absolved in Stuntman’s Death

A Superior Court jury in Los Angeles Wednesday absolved the producers of a film of negligence in the death of stuntman Dar Robinson, who died on the set of the movie “Million Dollar Mystery” after a motorcycle accident.

Robinson’s widow, Linda Robinson, has sued De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and Million Dollar Mystery Productions Ltd. of Beverly Hills.

There were no ambulances at the movie set in November, 1986, when Robinson veered off a remote desert road on a motorcycle at 70 m.p.h.

In clearing the producers, the jury decided Robinson was an employee only of Million Dollar Mystery Productions Ltd., not of DEG, and that there was no evidence of negligence by DEG. Under state law, an employee cannot sue an employer for negligence for an on-the-job accident, so Million Doller Mystery could not be held liable.