Hollywood's been messing up a long time

[7mmsavage]

This may not be posted in the right place, but I had to share this one. I watched a movie this morning called "The Sniper" that was made in 1952. The "sniper's" weapon of choice was folding stock paratrooper style M1 carbine, sans magazine, with a very high mounted scope. In the first few minutes of the movie he takes the gun apart to clean/inspect it by sliding the scope free of it's mount, almost like you would a bayonet, and then with a slight twist he pulls off the barrel. The amazing part of the barrel removal is that the gun had the front barrel band on it, and the sniper didn't remove it before taking off his barrel!? Anyway it was kind of a bizarre movie that did have some cool shots of the local police, armed with what looked like winchester 94s and Thompson submachine guns. And there was a scene at a carnival shooting gallery that was still using winchester pump action 22's. In case anyone is interested I got it On Demand on the TCM channel.

 

[Deer Hunter]

Just recently I watched a movie called, I believe, "The Marksman". The "marksman" in the movie used a silenced uzi.

Both me and my brother in law (Who I converted into our gun-crazy cult) were confused.

 

[The Deer Hunter]

lol, i have seen the cover for that at the video store

 

[toivo]

Books too. I just read a novel where one of the characters puts three shells into a pump shotgun, then "pumps them forward to get the feeling of the action." Huh? Then he "unloads the gun." What? There's so much wrong there that I don't know where to begin.

 

[GunnySkox]

Oh snaps. We have Deer Hunter and THE Deer Hunter in the same thread. My brain is splitting in half!

~GnSx

 

[Ed Wagner]

Look how many times Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers and numerous other cowboys fired 75 rounds from an 1873 Colt SAA before reloading.I think the CAVALRY Manual reccommended reloading after 5 or 6 rounds.
Ed

 

[DMK]

I've been renting Combat! from Netflix lately. It's actually pretty good with gun realism, except for one glaring defect that keeps ruining it for me: the Germans use water cooled 1917s instead of MG42s. I mean, I can see that maybe MG42s were hard to get in the 60's, but M1917s cooled machine guns?! You can hardly get a more recognizably wrong machine gun to use in it's place.


It's funny when you watch some of these old TV shows, like SWAT or Mission Impossible. They keep recycling the same guns over and over. In SWAT, the bad guy is always armed with that same M1 carbine or P38 pistol. In MI, the enemy soldiers or third world policemen always have Mausers, or Thompsons with a .38 M&P making an appearance now and then.There's also an interesting reoccurring CZ handgun that I have yet to identify except for the "Ceska Zbrojovka" clearly on it's side in a few frames.

 

[dstorm1911]

ya'll got some priorities need re-organizing!

The guns in westerns???? Guys please! What I really want explained is how come the starlet is ALWAYS got perfectly shaved legs and arm pits! Uhhh that was really tough to pull off with tools available in the day! Besides the 75 shots was only the tip of the Iceburg........ there should not have even been cartridge fired revolvers for the time frame! Cap and Ball ruled the day but it took too long for the actors to reload so 1873s got substituted its really funny when the movie is based on the aftermath of the Civil war for instance go watch The outlaw Josie Wells but now actually look at the cylender on the Walker and 1860 dureing shootouts they are blank fireing conversions BUT for poses or still shots he is carrying the correct percussion cap fitted guns......... And about them shaved legs.......... ya know how every boy always at least once has said "sure wish I could go back in time for that" now think about it realizing that the Starlet in reality would not have shaved her legs or pits in her entire life and getting a bath once a week was a severe luxury!!!!! Still wanna go back in time ?