That wasn’t the only time Elwes was seriously injured.

A second injury came when Rugen hits Westley on the head with a sword handle — but Guest was afraid of hitting Elwes, so it was clear on-screen that he wasn’t making contact. Elwes suggested Guest just hit him once so they could get the reaction timing right. He agreed and Reiner yelled action.

“That was the last thing I remember from that day’s shoot,” Elwes wrote, as Guest accidentally him him harder than intended. “I woke up in the emergency room, still in costume, to the frightened sound of stitches being sewn into my skull. From the same doctor, no less, who had treated me only a few weeks earlier for my broken toe. I remember him saying to me after I came to, ‘Well, Zorro! You seem to be a little accident prone, don’t you?’”