As I have watched this movie ("Bataan") so many times, I feel I know Robert Taylor more as his screen "persona" of Sgt. Bill Dane!
Anyway, I won another still from the movie on eBay, which contained a good shot of the rifle he was carrying in this scene. It is a Sedgely or Bannerman rifle. I wanted to see how many features you could pick out that defferentiate it from a "real" M1903. A little quiz!
Here's the original still:
...and a "turned round" closeup of Dane's rifle:
I see at least three "features". How many can you spot?Information
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