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[[Image: | {{Infobox Movie | ||
|name = Deathwatch | |||
|picture = Deathwatch.jpg | |||
|caption = ''Movie Poster'' | |||
|country = [[Image:UKD.jpg|25px]] United Kingdom<br>[[Image:GER.jpg|25px]] Germany | |||
|director = M. J. Bassett | |||
|date= December 6, 2002 | |||
|language = English<br>German | |||
|studio= | |||
|distributor=Lions Gate Entertainment | |||
|character1=Charlie Shakespeare | |||
|actor1=[[Jamie Bell]] | |||
|character2=Colin Chevasse | |||
|actor2=Ruaidhri Conroy | |||
|character3=Bramwell Jennings | |||
|actor3=[[Laurence Fox]] | |||
|character4=Willie McNess | |||
|actor4=[[Dean Lennox Kelly]] | |||
|character5=Barry Starinski | |||
|actor5=[[Kris Marshall]] | |||
|character6=Jack Hawkstone | |||
|actor6=[[Hans Matheson]] | |||
|character7=Friedrich | |||
|actor7=[[Torben Liebrecht]] | |||
}} | |||
'''''Deathwatch''''' is a 2002 British horror film that involves the survivors of a British unit, Y Company, who are separated from their regiment during the brutal trench fighting of the First World War. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed-out German trench, abandoned except for three German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends upon the trench and the British begin to turn on each other. | |||
The film contains largely accurate World War I-era weaponry, but there are some major historical inaccuracies as the filmmakers used some WWII-era weapons for much of the film. | |||
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==[[ | {{Spoilers}} | ||
=Rifles= | |||
[[ | == Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I == | ||
The [[Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I]] is used by almost all of the British soldiers of Y company including Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]), Sgt. David Tate ([[Hugo Speer]]), Pte. Jack Hawkstone ([[Hans Matheson]]), Pte. Willie McNess ([[Dean Lennox Kelly]]) and Pte. Anthony Bradford ([[Hugh O'Conor]]). Pte. Barry Starinski ([[Kris Marshall]]) has a telescopic sight fitted to his. During the opening sequence, these rifles are equipped with period-correct Pattern 1907 Bayonets. | |||
This is a painfully inaccurate anachronism. While the rifle is a British design, the No. 4 wasn't even adopted by the British Armed Forces until 1939, closer to World War II. The film takes place in 1917, during World War I, and the cast should be using the period correct [[Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mk III|No. 1 Mk III*]]. But there is nary a No. 1 to be seen in this film, unusual since the No. 1s design is one of the most iconic weapons of the first world war. | |||
[[Image:LeeEnfield4Rifle.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I - .303 British]] | |||
[[Image: | [[Image:Deathwatch PrivateMcNess EnfieldMkIII.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Willie McNess ([[Dean Lennox Kelly]]) aims his Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I at the German soldiers in the trench.]] | ||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateHawkstone EnfieldMkIII.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pvt. Jack Hawkstone ([[Hans Matheson]]) with his Lee-Enfield.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateHawkstone EnfieldMkIII 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Hawkstone chambering a round in his Lee-Enfield.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateHawkstone EnfieldMkIII 3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Hawkstone slams the bolt home.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateBradford EnfieldMkIII.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Anthony Bradford ([[Hugh O'Conor]]) on watch with his Lee-Enfield.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateShakespeare EnfieldMkIII.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]) searching the trenches with his Lee-Enfield.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch SergeantTate EnfieldMkIII 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sgt. David Tate ([[Hugo Speer]]) cleans his Lee-Enfield as he talks with Pte. Shakespeare.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch SergeantTate EnfieldMkIII 3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sgt. Tate aims his Lee-Enfield.]] | |||
[[Image:Smle4mk1t.jpg|thumb|none|450px| Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I (T) - .303 British]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateStarinski EnfieldMkIII.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Barry Starinski ([[Kris Marshall]]) aims his Scoped Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I (T).]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateStarinski EnfieldMkIII 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Starinski sweeps through the trenches with his Scoped Lee-Enfield.]] | |||
==Karabiner 98k== | |||
Most of the German rifles seen in the trench are the [[Karabiner 98k]]. They are used by Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]), Cpl. 'Doc' Fairweather ([[Matthew Rhys]]), and some British soldiers in the opening sequence. Shakespeare also gives one to German prisoner Friedrich ([[Torben Liebrecht]]) to defend himself. | |||
Like the use of No. 4s in WWI, the use of the Kar98k in WWI is painfully incorrect, considering the fact that they weren't even adopted by the Wehrmacht until 1935 (at that point the WWI-era German Empire didn't even exist anymore and Germany was now under the Nazi regime). In WWI, the Germans did use carbine variants of their Gewehr 98 long rifle, but they were called the [[Karabiner 98AZ|Karabiner 98AZ/98a]] and looked significantly different than the Kar98k. | |||
[[Image:Karabiner-98K.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Karabiner 98k - 7.92x57mm Mauser]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch DocFairweather Karabiner98k.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Cpl. 'Doc' Fairweather ([[Matthew Rhys]]) aims his Karabiner 98k.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch DocFairweather Karabiner98k 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|'Doc' Fairweather with the 98k slung around his back.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch DocFairweather Karabiner98k 3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|'Doc' Fairweather aims his 98k into No-Man's Land.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch Friedrich Karabiner98k.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]) hands a 98k to Friedrich ([[Torben Liebrecht]]) so he can protect himself.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateShakespeare Karabiner98k.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shakespeare searches for 'Doc' Fairweather with a 98k.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateShakespeare Karabiner98k 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shakespeare fires his 98k, now fitted with a S84/98 bayonet.]] | |||
== | ==Mauser Gewehr 1898== | ||
The German soldier Friedrich ([[Torben Liebrecht]]) uses a [[Mauser Gewehr 1898]] to hold Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]) at gunpoint at the end of the film. The historically accurate Gewehr 1898 is only used in this part and at the beginning; the rest of the Mauser rifles are the historically incorrect [[Karabiner 98k]]. This is bizarre and baffling, since the filmmakers had period accurate rifles on set for Germans to use. | |||
[[Image: | [[Image:Mauser g98.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Mauser Gewehr 1898 - 7.92mm]] | ||
[[Image:Deathwatch Friedrich Gewehr1898.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Friedrich ([[Torben Liebrecht]]) aims a Mauser Gewehr 1898 at Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]).]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch Friedrich Gewehr1898 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Nice close-up of the Gewehr 1898. Note the straight bolt handle and the famous Lange Visier AKA "rollercoaster" rear sights. The tall and curved rear sight is a dead giveaway that this is an authentic Gewehr 98. Rollercoaster sights were only used on the Gewehr 98 and the [[Mauser Rifle Series#1916 Spanish Mauser|Model 1916]] Spanish Mauser.]] | |||
=Submachine Guns= | |||
== Bergmann MP18/I == | |||
A [[Bergmann MP18/I]] is wielded by Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]) at one point in the film. This gun is a post-World War I conversion that has been retrofitted with a box magazine feed rather than a period-accurate TM 08 "snail magazine". In some shots, the gun is replaced by a [[Haenel MP28/II]], standing in for an MP18/I; the two guns are distinguishable by their rear sights. | |||
[[File:MP18I.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Bergmann MP18/I (post-war magazine conversion) - 9x19mm]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateShakespeare BergmanMP18 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]) fires the MP18/I.]] | |||
== Haenel-Schmeisser MP28/II == | |||
An anachronistic [[Haenel-Schmeisser MP28/II]] stands in for the aforementioned MP18/I in some shots. To be fair, however, it's hard to tell the difference and the guns are very similar, with the MP28 simply being an upgraded version of the MP18. | |||
[[File:mp28.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Haenel-Schmeisser MP28/II - 9x19mm]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateShakespeare BergmanMP18.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Shakespeare aims an MP28/II at Pte. Thomas Quinn ([[Andy Serkis]]). Note the 20-round box magazine and tangent rear sight.]] | |||
==[[ | =Machine Guns= | ||
==Goryunov SG-43== | |||
[[ | Pte. Willie McNess ([[Dean Lennox Kelly]]) uses a [[Goryunov SG-43]] visually mocked up to resemble a British [[Vickers Machine Gun]] in the opening sequence. Perhaps it is the same mockup used in the 2008 Czech movie ''[[Tobruk_(2008)#Goryunov_SG-43_Machine_Gun_modified_to_resemble_Vickers_MK1_Machine_Gun|Tobruk]]''. | ||
[[File:SGM SM.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Goryunov SGM - 7.62x54mm R]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateMcNess VickersMMG.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Willie McNess ([[Dean Lennox Kelly]]) opens up with the Goryunov machine gun. Note the gap between the top cover and the water jacket. The gun appears to be mounted on a Czechoslovak [[Schwarzlose M1907/24]] tripod.]] | |||
==Vickers Mk. I== | |||
What appears to be a genuine [[Vickers]] is also seen fired by Pte. Willie McNess ([[Dean Lennox Kelly]]). | |||
[[Image:Vickers gun.JPG|thumb|none|400px|Vickers Mk. I - .303 British]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateMcNess VickersMMG 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|McNess firing the Vickers which has a ribbed water jacket and Mark V tripod.]] | |||
==ZB-53 / Vz.37== | |||
A [[ZB-53 / Vz.37]] mocked up to resemble a [[Maxim MG08]] is used by German machine gunners in the opening sequence. | |||
[[File:ZB-53.jpg|thumb|none|400px|ZB 53 / Vz.37 - 7.92x57mm Mauser]] | |||
[[Image:MaximMG08.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Maxim MG08; for comparison - 7.92x57mm Mauser]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch Germansoldier MaximMG08.jpg|thumb|none|600px|German soldiers fire a ZB-53 from a defensive position. Note the position of the muzzle at the center of the water jacket.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch Germansoldier MaximMG08 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A German gunner is shot off his machine gun. The ZB-53 grips are visible.]] | |||
=Sidearms= | |||
==Luger P08== | |||
A [[Luger P08]] is used by Capt. Bramwell Jennings ([[Laurence Fox]]) when he threatens Pte. Willie McNess ([[Dean Lennox Kelly]]) to stop him from going over the top. | |||
[[Image:P08Luger1917.jpg|300px|thumb|none|Luger P08 - 9mm]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch CaptainJennings LugerP08.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Capt. Bramwell Jennings ([[Laurence Fox]]) aims his Luger P08 at Pte. Willie McNess ([[Dean Lennox Kelly]]).]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch CaptainJennings LugerP08 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The same scene from a different angle.]] | |||
==Webley Mk IV== | |||
The revolver used by the British troops of Y Company including Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]), Capt. Bramwell Jennings ([[Laurence Fox]]), Sgt. David Tate ([[Hugo Speer]]), Pte. Thomas Quinn ([[Andy Serkis]]), Pte. Anthony Bradford ([[Hugh O'Conor]]) and Cpl. 'Doc' Fairweather ([[Matthew Rhys]]) is the [[Webley Mk IV]]. This choice of revolver is anachronistic with the .38 Mk IV not entering service until 1929. The correct revolver would be the larger .455 [[Webley Mk VI]]. Note that Quinn has a bayonet attachment fitted to his; whilst the bayonet had never been used officially by the British Army since 1915, it is still possible that Quinn got his hands on one. | |||
[[Image:Webley-MK-4.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Webley Mk.IV WW2 British Army version chambered for .38 S&W]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch SergeantTate WebleyFosbery.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sgt. David Tate ([[Hugo Speer]]) breaks open his Webley Mk IV to ensure that it is loaded.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch CaptainJennings WebleyFosbery.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Capt. Bramwell Jennings ([[Laurence Fox]]) accidentally shoots Pte. Jack Hawkstone ([[Hans Matheson]]) with his Webley.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch DocFairweather WebleyFosbery.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Cpl. 'Doc' Fairweather ([[Matthew Rhys]]) with his Webley.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateQuinn WebleyFosbery.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Thomas Quinn ([[Andy Serkis]]) on watch with his Webley. You can just make out the bayonet attachment.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch CaptainJennings WebleyFosbery 3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Capt. Jennings holds his Webley on Sgt. Tate.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateShakespeare WebleyFosbery.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]) takes a Webley from a case. The revolver is obviously a much smaller Webley Mk IV, not a much larger Webley-Fosbery Automatic revolver.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateShakespeare WebleyFosbery 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Charlie Shakespeare tries to quiet a hysterical, wounded Pte. Colin Chevasse ([[Ruaidhri Conroy]]) with his Webley.]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateBradford WebleyFosbery.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Anthony Bradford ([[Hugh O'Conor]]) aims his Webley at a tied-up 'Doc' Fairweather.]] | |||
=Grenades= | |||
==Mills Bomb== | |||
A [[Mills Bomb]] is carried by [[Jamie Bell]] as Pte. Charlie Shakespeare when he compares it with the [[Model 24 Stielhandgranate]], it is incorrectly identified as a 'Pineapple' by Sgt. David Tate ([[Hugo Speer]]). | |||
[[Image:Mills Bomb SGM-1.jpg|thumb|none|150px|Mills Bomb - High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateShakespeare MillsBomb.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Close-up of a Mills Bomb in the hands of Pte. Charlie Shakespeare ([[Jamie Bell]]).]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateShakespeare MillsBomb 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Shakespeare holds a Mills Bomb in one hand and a Model 24 Stielhandgranate in the other as he compares the two.]] | |||
==Model 24 Stielhandgranate== | |||
Y Company soldiers Sgt. David Tate ([[Hugh O'Conor]]) and Pte. Thomas Quinn ([[Andy Serkis]]), along with several others, use captured [[Model 24 Stielhandgranate]] hand grenades to clear out German dugouts. Based on their shape, they appear to be antipersonnel fragmentation models. | |||
[[Image:M24handgrenade.JPG|thumb|none|400px|Model 24 Stielhandgranate]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch SergeantTate PotatoMasher.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Several Model 24 Stielhandgranate's lie in an open crate. One can be seen held by Sgt. David Tate ([[Hugh O'Conor]]).]] | |||
[[Image:Deathwatch PrivateQuinn PotatoMasher.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pte. Thomas Quinn ([[Andy Serkis]]) removes two Model 24's from the open crate.]] | |||
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Deathwatch is a 2002 British horror film that involves the survivors of a British unit, Y Company, who are separated from their regiment during the brutal trench fighting of the First World War. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed-out German trench, abandoned except for three German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends upon the trench and the British begin to turn on each other.
The film contains largely accurate World War I-era weaponry, but there are some major historical inaccuracies as the filmmakers used some WWII-era weapons for much of the film.
The following weapons were used in the film Deathwatch:
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Rifles
Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I
The Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I is used by almost all of the British soldiers of Y company including Pte. Charlie Shakespeare (Jamie Bell), Sgt. David Tate (Hugo Speer), Pte. Jack Hawkstone (Hans Matheson), Pte. Willie McNess (Dean Lennox Kelly) and Pte. Anthony Bradford (Hugh O'Conor). Pte. Barry Starinski (Kris Marshall) has a telescopic sight fitted to his. During the opening sequence, these rifles are equipped with period-correct Pattern 1907 Bayonets.
This is a painfully inaccurate anachronism. While the rifle is a British design, the No. 4 wasn't even adopted by the British Armed Forces until 1939, closer to World War II. The film takes place in 1917, during World War I, and the cast should be using the period correct No. 1 Mk III*. But there is nary a No. 1 to be seen in this film, unusual since the No. 1s design is one of the most iconic weapons of the first world war.
Karabiner 98k
Most of the German rifles seen in the trench are the Karabiner 98k. They are used by Pte. Charlie Shakespeare (Jamie Bell), Cpl. 'Doc' Fairweather (Matthew Rhys), and some British soldiers in the opening sequence. Shakespeare also gives one to German prisoner Friedrich (Torben Liebrecht) to defend himself.
Like the use of No. 4s in WWI, the use of the Kar98k in WWI is painfully incorrect, considering the fact that they weren't even adopted by the Wehrmacht until 1935 (at that point the WWI-era German Empire didn't even exist anymore and Germany was now under the Nazi regime). In WWI, the Germans did use carbine variants of their Gewehr 98 long rifle, but they were called the Karabiner 98AZ/98a and looked significantly different than the Kar98k.
Mauser Gewehr 1898
The German soldier Friedrich (Torben Liebrecht) uses a Mauser Gewehr 1898 to hold Pte. Charlie Shakespeare (Jamie Bell) at gunpoint at the end of the film. The historically accurate Gewehr 1898 is only used in this part and at the beginning; the rest of the Mauser rifles are the historically incorrect Karabiner 98k. This is bizarre and baffling, since the filmmakers had period accurate rifles on set for Germans to use.
Submachine Guns
Bergmann MP18/I
A Bergmann MP18/I is wielded by Pte. Charlie Shakespeare (Jamie Bell) at one point in the film. This gun is a post-World War I conversion that has been retrofitted with a box magazine feed rather than a period-accurate TM 08 "snail magazine". In some shots, the gun is replaced by a Haenel MP28/II, standing in for an MP18/I; the two guns are distinguishable by their rear sights.
Haenel-Schmeisser MP28/II
An anachronistic Haenel-Schmeisser MP28/II stands in for the aforementioned MP18/I in some shots. To be fair, however, it's hard to tell the difference and the guns are very similar, with the MP28 simply being an upgraded version of the MP18.
Machine Guns
Goryunov SG-43
Pte. Willie McNess (Dean Lennox Kelly) uses a Goryunov SG-43 visually mocked up to resemble a British Vickers Machine Gun in the opening sequence. Perhaps it is the same mockup used in the 2008 Czech movie Tobruk.
Vickers Mk. I
What appears to be a genuine Vickers is also seen fired by Pte. Willie McNess (Dean Lennox Kelly).
ZB-53 / Vz.37
A ZB-53 / Vz.37 mocked up to resemble a Maxim MG08 is used by German machine gunners in the opening sequence.
Sidearms
Luger P08
A Luger P08 is used by Capt. Bramwell Jennings (Laurence Fox) when he threatens Pte. Willie McNess (Dean Lennox Kelly) to stop him from going over the top.
Webley Mk IV
The revolver used by the British troops of Y Company including Pte. Charlie Shakespeare (Jamie Bell), Capt. Bramwell Jennings (Laurence Fox), Sgt. David Tate (Hugo Speer), Pte. Thomas Quinn (Andy Serkis), Pte. Anthony Bradford (Hugh O'Conor) and Cpl. 'Doc' Fairweather (Matthew Rhys) is the Webley Mk IV. This choice of revolver is anachronistic with the .38 Mk IV not entering service until 1929. The correct revolver would be the larger .455 Webley Mk VI. Note that Quinn has a bayonet attachment fitted to his; whilst the bayonet had never been used officially by the British Army since 1915, it is still possible that Quinn got his hands on one.
Grenades
Mills Bomb
A Mills Bomb is carried by Jamie Bell as Pte. Charlie Shakespeare when he compares it with the Model 24 Stielhandgranate, it is incorrectly identified as a 'Pineapple' by Sgt. David Tate (Hugo Speer).
Model 24 Stielhandgranate
Y Company soldiers Sgt. David Tate (Hugh O'Conor) and Pte. Thomas Quinn (Andy Serkis), along with several others, use captured Model 24 Stielhandgranate hand grenades to clear out German dugouts. Based on their shape, they appear to be antipersonnel fragmentation models.
