The movie Man Hunt

[cprher]

Just watched Man Hunt, a 1941 American thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Walter Pidgeon and Joan Bennett. It is based on the 1939 novel Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household and is set just prior to the Second World War. What's cool about this movie is one of the movie's major characters, Pidgeon's rifle used at the start of the show: a 1917 customized by the famous gun house Howell and Howell of Bond Street. Too bad they just didn't say Holland and Holland on Holland Street and be done with it. The detachable scope which I did not recognized had a elevation dial calibrated in yards and that itself plays a part in the movie. Very cool. Not so cool is the last scene when Pigeon parachutes back into Germany, ostensibly to kill Hitler, this time carrying a scoped Winchester 351 SLR. Ah, movie directors can be so witless at times. But, even though first made in 1907 the 351 always did have a deadly look to it, and of course it was the gun that supposedly killed Bonnie and Clyde, which gives it a certain cache'.

Keith

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[cprher]

Here is the entire movie. See the portions 2:54 - 3:48, and 5:15 - 5:29.

Keith