Charro!: Difference between revisions
Charro!: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Charro!: Difference between revisions
[[File:Charro-Winchester92Rifle-6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Jess Wade arms Will Joslyn with this rifle.]]
[[File:Charro-Winchester92Rifle-6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Jess Wade arms Will Joslyn with this rifle.]]
[[File:Charro-Winchester92Rifle-7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Due to a continuty error in next scene Will Joslyn holds a carbine while the rifle is in hands of Jerome Selby.]]
[[File:Charro-Winchester92Rifle-7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Due to a continuity error in next scene Will Joslyn holds a carbine while the rifle is in hands of Jerome Selby.]]
[[File:Charro-Winchester92-B.jpg|thumb|none|500px|James Sikking as Gunner holds a Winchester Model 1892 rifle on a promotion still.]]
[[File:Charro-Winchester92-B.jpg|thumb|none|500px|James Sikking as Gunner holds a Winchester Model 1892 rifle on a promotion still.]]
Charro! is an American 1969 Western movie directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Elvis Presley as Jess Wade, a former outlaw. Jess leaves the gang, led by Vince Hackett (Victor French), but when the gang steals from Mexico a gold-plated cannon, a symbol of victory in Mexican-French war, they falsely accuse Jess in this crime. Now he has to prove his innocence and helps to defend a town against the gang.
The following weapons were used in the film Charro!:
Gunner's (James Sikking) Winchester 1892 carbine switches to a Winchester Model 1892 rifle. Townsmen Will Joslyn (Robert Luster) and Jerome Selby (John Pickard) also carry Winchester 1892 rifles. It seems to be that a single prop is reused in all these scenes, and this is a "short rifle" in .38-40 caliber with slightly shortened barrel.
A Napoleonic style smoothbore field cannon with personal name "Victoria" (Victory), gold-plated with silver-decorated wheels, is a plot item. This symbol of Mexican victory in French-Mexican war 1861-1867 is stolen by Vince Hackett's gang. In several scenes they use the cannon to shoot dynamite sticks (a feat, impossible in reality, as the instability of dynamite in combination with the sudden acceleration of the shell would set off the explosive in the barrel of the weapon; real "dynamite guns" were using compressed air for shooting).
