Cuba: Difference between revisions
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Cuba: Difference between revisions
[[File:Cuba-1979-Thompson-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Another guerilla holds a fake Thompson in the final scene in airport.]]
[[File:Cuba-1979-Thompson-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Another guerilla holds a fake Thompson in the final scene in airport.]]
== Unidentified Thompson-style SMG ==
=== M1921/M1928-like version ===
Guerilla fighters also carry unknown SMGs that have Thompson-style foregrips, pistol grips and rear sight guards but differs in having large space between the trigger guard and magazine well. Such SMGs are seen in some other Spanish filmed movies, like ''[[From_Hell_to_Victory#Unidentified_submachine_gun|From Hell to Victory]]''. Their general view allows to guess that they are visually modified [[Labora Fontbernat M1938]] SMGs.
Guerilla fighters also carry unknown SMGs that have Thompson-style foregrips, pistol grips and rear sight guards but differs in having large space between the trigger guard and magazine well. Such SMGs are seen in some other Spanish filmed movies, like ''[[From_Hell_to_Victory#Unidentified_submachine_gun|From Hell to Victory]]''. Their general view allows to guess that they are visually modified Labora Fontbernat M1938 SMGs. See [[Talk:Cuba|talk page]] for further discussion of these guns.
[[Image:M1928.jpg|thumb|none|400px|For comparison: M1928 "Tommy Gun" or "Chicago typewriter" with 50-round drum magazine - .45 ACP]]
[[Image:M1928.jpg|thumb|none|400px|For comparison: M1928 "Tommy Gun" or "Chicago typewriter" with 50-round drum magazine - .45 ACP]]
[[File:Labora Fontbernat M1938.jpg|thumb|none|400px|For comparison: Labora Fontbernat M1938 - 9x19mm Par or 9x23mm Largo]]
[[File:Labora Fontbernat M1938.jpg|thumb|none|400px|For comparison: Labora Fontbernat M1938 - 9x19mm Par or 9x23mm Largo]]
Cuba is a 1979 movie directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery as a British mercenary Major Robert Dapes, an expert in counter-guerrilla warfare, who is hired by Cuban government to organise successful operations against Castro's guerrillas. In Habana Dapes meets his love of old days, Alexandra Lopez de Pulido (Brooke Adams) who is now married a wealthy playboy.
Note: the movie was filmed in Spain, which affected the choice of screen guns.
After Julio Mederos' (Danny De La Paz) M1911 jams, he takes a Smith & Wesson New Model No.3 from a fellow girl guerilla fighter. The revolver is possibly a Spanish manufactured version.
Erma EMP-35 SMGs are used by both government troops and guerillas. They are possibly Spanish manufactured Coruña M41/44 in 9x23mm Largo caliber. In one scene Maj. Dapes (Sean Connery) briefly holds an EMP-35, taken from a female guerilla fighter.
In one scene a guerilla fighter fires a submachine gun that resembles experimental Vollmer-Erma VMP 1930 but most likely appears to be a EMP-35 with removed barrel shroud.
Guerilla fighters also carry unknown SMGs that have Thompson-style foregrips, pistol grips and rear sight guards but differs in having large space between the trigger guard and magazine well. Such SMGs are seen in some other Spanish filmed movies, like From Hell to Victory. Their general view allows to guess that they are visually modified Labora Fontbernat M1938 SMGs. See talk page for further discussion of these guns.
Browning M1919A4 machine guns are mounted on jeeps and M10 tank destroyers of government troops. Larry Gutman (Jack Weston) fires an M1919A4, dismounted from M10.
An M10 Tank Destroyer appears during the battle on gas station. Maj. Dapes captures it from government troops and mans 75mm gun while Larry Gutman performs the duties of driver.
A Cadillac Gage Commando armored car is seen in documentary footage. It bears Spanish red-yellow-red military insignia and has nothing common with Cuba though in the movie it is presented as belonging to Gen. Batista troops.
