How about a useful post.....
How about a list of movies featuring Carbines? What is everyone's favorite?
I'm thinking Sand of Iwo Jima with John Wayne... or To Hell and Back with the (real) Audie Murphy
Any other favorites showing carbines??
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How about a useful post.....
How about a list of movies featuring Carbines? What is everyone's favorite?
I'm thinking Sand of Iwo Jima with John Wayne... or To Hell and Back with the (real) Audie Murphy
Any other favorites showing carbines??
Why does a movie with Burt Reynolds come to mind?
"Heartbreak Ridge" shows full auto firing in the beginning.
"Windtalker" has a bunch too.
'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Band of Brothers' are two of my favorites.
Steven Spielberg went to great lengths trying to show accurate period examples of all the weapons, uniforms, equipment, etc.
Flags of our Fathers, Bridge at Remagen, The Longest Day, Pork Chp Hill
How about "Objective Burma"? You have to love Errol Flynn jumping out with his M1A1 tucked behind his reserve!!
And his quote, "when we get back were going to have steaks this thick, smothered in pork chops".....Frank
Bridge at Remagen and Eagle has Landed.
How about the original: CARBINE WILLIAMS with Jimmy Stewart!
"Kelly's Heroes" when they start the action in town they use a carbine to launche a grenade through a window.....Frank
I gotta agree with Harlan with his picks. I can even forgive BOB for using four rivet handguards. I bet the upcoming The Pacific will easily join this list....maybe even rising to the top with its use of carbines. :thup:Quote:
Originally Posted by cafdfw
Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan would have been my first two picks, but he got them first! As long as we are talking Burma, let's not forget "Merrill's Marauders" which was Jeff Chandler's last movie. Then there was Rick Jason as Lt. Hansen on "Combat" with Vic Marrow. LT. Hansen carried a carbine
Vic Morrow carried a Thompson, Cage a BAR. I used to watch that show, it was on ABC Tuesday night from 1962 to 1967. The series lasted longer than the ground war (June 6, 1944 - May 7, 1945) in the European Theatre of OperationsQuote:
Originally Posted by imarangemaster
I noticed in the early episodes, Vic Morrow had a 5 cell Thompson 20 rounder pouch on the back of his belt, sometimes with 30 rounders in it. After that, he usually just pulled them out from inside his field jacket. I loved "Kirby" with his BAR, ("Cage" had a Garand). Besides Sgt. Saunders, Lt. Hansen, Cage, and Kirby, there was also "Doc," and "Little John. I think there was one other regular, but it slips my mind. Anyone else who was unlucky enough to be with them on a mission was usually killed off!
As corny as it sounds, I would love to have the complete set, but $160 price tag is about 400 rounds of carbine ammo!
BTW, Lt. Hansen's had late features.
It just dawned on me that was about the time I shot my cousin's DCM carbine! I had carbinitis bad. I took one of those wood and metal bolt action toy rifles common back then in the 50s and 60s (they made full size ones for school drill teams) hogged out a magazine well, cut some pieces of 1x2 the size of a carbine magazines and painted them black to put in the hogged out hole, took out the bolt and fabricated a carbine bolt out of aluminum tubing and a spring. I carried the "spare" magazines in an original bandoleer my dad brought back from IWO. I still have the bandoleer.
I had two of the wood toy rifles, but lost the carbine modified one along the way. The other unmodified one is still in my gunsafe 45+ years later. Beat up and much the worse for wear.
SPR used a Korean vintage M100 1/4 ton jeep trailer. All in all yes, both were very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by cafdfw
Star Trek was another that went through "guest crew" members. Spock, Kirk, Doc, Scotty and Yeomen Smith beam down to the planet. Who is going to get killed??? :madsmile::lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by imarangemaster
Cast of CombatQuote:
Originally Posted by imarangemaster
* Rick Jason ... 2nd Lt. Gil Hanley
* Vic Morrow ... Sgt. Chip Saunders
* Pierre Jalbert ... PFC. Paul "Caje" LeMay
* Jack Hogan ... Pvt. William G. Kirby
* Dick Peabody ...Pvt. "Littlejohn"
* Conlan Carter ... "Doc"
* Tom Lowell ... Billy Nelson (1st and 2nd seasons)
* Shecky Greene ... Pvt. Braddock (1st season)
* Steven Rogers ... "Doc" (1st season)
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HANLEY, not Hansen. I guess 45 years allows me "oldtimers" moment.
Ugh, you are tempting me! DANG YOU!!!!!! My wife claims I am in a state of arrested development at twelve years old. Le me see, that's seasom three? Hahaha!
Here's the picture of the one toy rifle I still have in my safe. I got it for Christmas about 1960. It has fought in my backyard and woods behind the house "Normandy, Iwo Jima, the Buldge, and Pork Chop Hill" The finish is mostly gone and sling is ripped in two.
To know what the other one looked like, picture it with the bolt removed and a piece of spring loaded aluminum tubing with a charging handle for a bolt, and a black piece of 1x2 sticking out of the bottom for a carbine magazine. My dad had a good woodshop and tools in the basement, and he taught me to use them early. I think I made the toy carbine when I was about 10 or 12. I made a 1919 MG Air-cooled out of wood (2x4 and a dowel rod with an erector set handle covered with electrical tape) and a cut down music stand tripod!
I just remembered seeing Carbines being used by the SVN "personnel" in the movie "Green Berets".....
So thats TWO John Wayne's to your ONE Tom Hanks.... any one want to raise me???
Not just ARVN had carbines in that movie. David Jansen, the reporter in Green Beret, uses an M1 Carbine when they are being over run and gives it to John Wayne after it is over.
Wasn't John Wayne in "The fighting See bees"? I think they had carbines there, too. That's another John Wayne. 3 to one, now...
You guys all forgot about "Planet of the Apes" with Charlton Heston! :super:
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Sort of hard to tell from that picture but they were heavily disguised M1 Carbines. :lol:
Let's not forget the Man from U.N.C.L.E. The evil TRUSH foot soldiers carried faux M3 carbines with supposed M3 infrared scopes!
It was so popular, even the CIA museum has one!:
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I always wondered what the guns in Planet of The Apes were.
IIRCC Billy made into season 4 maybe it was season 3. He was killed in an episode guest starring Tab Hunter as a pro baseball player that joined the squad. He was also in several episodes after he was supposidly killed. He is not listed as a regular on the back of any of the DVD cases. The last season of combat was done in color. The three contributing causes of the demise of Combat was the loss of the back lot wear all the filming was done (How many times can you take the same town?) The cost of the color filming and last but not least apy scales for the stars. Very few of the last seasons episodes featured both Janson and Morrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimF4M1s
Another series that featured the use of Carbines was the final season of "Tour of Duty" when our dedicated band of warriors were doing special ops and were issued alternative weapons instead of Matty Matell.
Oh and on another note. some of the assault rifles used on the late series Battlestar Galactica were Highpoint carbines.
And the Bridges at Toki Ri With William Holden and Mickey Rooney. Mickey was using a carbine after his rescue chopper went down trying to rescue Holden
I always watch "The Bridges of Toko-Ri" when I see it's on.
Something about the fact that Holden's character (Lt. Brubaker) is called out of civillan life to go and fight in a far off, misunderstood war. The way it ends, always gets to me.....Frank
Say goodbye to any free time you have for a little while, haha!
M1 Carbine - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database
Wow, somebody already had too much time on their hands! Hahahaha
Did anyone else ever notice that in Combat when ever Hanley fired his carbine it was always from the hip even though in the extras Rick Jason was described as a hunter in real life. As a matter of fact Saunders very seldom brought his Thompson past his waste and Kirby didn't need sights on his BAR either. Now Caje knew how to bring that M1 to his shoulder
How about all the carbines on the television series LOST ? And 1911's, P38's,
and Lugers ?
LOST! That is an appropriate title for the program. I watched it once and was totally LOST? Where are they, what are they, is it someone's dream after imbibing in illicit drugs? I had a headache after watching it!
As far as hip shooting, I think Audie Murphy did a lot of hip shooting. While I wouldn't hunt small game from the hip, I am pretty good at man size targets with a carbine, M16 or AK at 25-30 yards, but that is after 10s of thousands of rounds. It helps that I was a rangemaster and firearms instructor and someone else paid for my ammo for over 20 years...
I used to take my boys (when they were very young) down to the river on my property and throw blocks of wood in. They shot at them with semi-auto 22's, from the hip. Literally, brick after brick. They got really, really good. Then I set up a OB coarse in the woods with targets that they had to go through. It was great training for them, they liked it and none of their friends did anything like that. Boy what I would give to go back to those times.....Frank
You have to watch it from the very beginning and then you may have to rewatch it to pick up on things you missed the first several times or you will become LOSTQuote:
Originally Posted by imarangemaster
Ends up it's bases on time travel with a lot of good vs evil. they claim since this is the last season that all of our questions will be answered. but so far all they have done is present more questions rthan they answered.
And most of them are time appropriate for the time peiodd they were skipping through but they also have had HK pistols, for one example, years before they were invented. there has also been other firearms boo boo's. My one buddy catches all that stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnL
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I still like to hip shoot. Years ago when younger, I used to walk beer cans with my brother's M1, hip shooting. And also blocks of wood in the local lake. Those days were fun!:super: GKQuote:
Originally Posted by frankderrico
GK, soon it will be the grand kids doing it here. Going to try the beer can thing. Have a good one......Frank
For 14 years I have been doing Cowboy Action Shooting (SASS). While I shoot BP and slow, I only practice "Bounce the can" and never use paper targets. That is how I practiced with my duty weapon as an LEO, too. More fluid and gratifying when it spins out of control...
Gandkids are grand and fun to teach. Soda cans work too. Another one that is fun is shooting frozen cans with .22's. :thup: GKQuote:
Originally Posted by frankderrico