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[[Image:Alamo-FlintlockPistol-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Crockett blows the powder out of the flashpan to render the weapon useless.]] | [[Image:Alamo-FlintlockPistol-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Crockett blows the powder out of the flashpan to render the weapon useless.]] | ||
[[Image:Alamo-FlintlockPistol-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Crockett and Bowie sneak past a Mexican camp in the river while holding pistols.]] | [[Image:Alamo-FlintlockPistol-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Crockett and Bowie sneak past a Mexican camp in the river while holding pistols.]] | ||
[[Image:Alamo-FlintlockPistol-6.jpg|thumb|none|600px| | [[Image:Alamo-FlintlockPistol-6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Bowie wields a pair of flintlock pistols in his final moments.]] | ||
==Nock Gun== | ==Nock Gun== | ||
Revision as of 07:59, 22 September 2009
The following guns were used in the film The Alamo (1960):
Kentucky Flintlock Rifle
The Kentucky Flintlock Rifle is prominantly seen in the hands of the defenders of The Alamo, and is the only identifiable flintlock rifle used in the film.
Flintlock Pistol
Officers in the film keep dress officer's Flintlock Pistols in cross draw holsters throughout the film. Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) holds a smaller model on Colonel Davy Crockett (John Wayne) before he takes it from him. Bowie is also seen wielding two pistols during the last stand. Colonel William Travis (Laurence Harvey) also wields one during the fighting.
Nock Gun
Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) carries a 7-barreled Nock Gun as his main weapon in the film. This gun could be considered an old-day shotgun, although it was ironically designed as a marksman's rifle. The combination of seven smooth bore barrels unevenly placed in a "honey-comb" formation made the rifle extremely inaccurate (which led to it quickly switching from a marksman's rifle to a volley gun) and the immense recoil of the seven barrels all firing at once was unpleasant. On top of that, the rifle was rather heavy and took far too long to reload and was thus never popular in combat use.
Trapdoor Springfield 1873
Some soldiers defending The Alamo use Trapdoor Springfield 1873 rifles mocked up as flintlock rifles, likely due to the ease of using metallic blanks cartridges instead of blank shot.
Bowie Knife
While not a firearm, Jim Bowie's (Richard Widmark) knife is unveiled for the first time in the Alamo, and admired by Davy Crockett (John Wayne).
