He was Tarantino's inspiration for Cliff Booth, the stunt man character played by Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood. He once faced down Charles Manson over a broken dune buggy until "Charles got under the dune buggy and fixed it right away."

He doubled for Jack Nicholson. He worked for Peter Bogdanovich and Brian De Palma. And in 1976, Gary Kent, the toughest man in exploitation cinema, stepped behind the camera to write and direct THE PYRAMID (1976) - a gentle, searching, hippie-era spiritual odyssey.

A Dallas television news cameraman grows sick of covering death and disaster, shootouts and school-bus wrecks, and wants instead to film more positive stories. A man who walks on fire. A pig sanctuary. A woman photographing auras. Told there is no money in truth and beauty, he is fired, and sets off to look for meaning.

Before Gary Kent ever fell off a horse for a paycheck, he studied journalism. The one time this daredevil made a film entirely his own, he cast a disillusioned reporter as the hero.

The film was pulled from theaters in a distributor fight. It sat lost for thirty years, surviving on a single 35mm print until it was restored by the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA).

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As a low-budget, regional production, The Pyramid was funded through private backers and grassroots efforts secured by Gary Kent and producers Lou Bludworth and Michael J. MacFarland. It was distributed through regional, grassroots theatrical bookings starting in San Antonio in 1976, playing as a late-night cult film.