The Assassination of Trotsky: Difference between revisions
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[[File:AoT-Pistol-7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Jackson tries to draw his pistol during the assassination.]]
[[File:AoT-Pistol-7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Jackson tries to draw his pistol during the assassination.]]
[[File:AoT-Pistol-8.jpg|thumb|none|600px|But he is captured by bodyguards.]]
[[File:AoT-Pistol-8.jpg|thumb|none|600px|But he is captured by bodyguards.]]
== Various pistols ==
Some Trotsky's bodyguards and police personnel carry pistols that aren't seen clear enough for identification.
[[File:AoT-Pistol-11.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Bodyguard Sheldon Harte (Carlos Miranda) carries a pistol in holster. A small part of the grip is seen.]]
[[File:AoT-Pistol-12.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Another view of Sheldon's holster.]]
[[File:AoT-Pistol-13.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A police officer convoys an arrestee. The pistol has rounded hammer spur.]]
[[File:AoT-Mauser-10.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A police officer at the right holds a pistol.]]
[[File:AoT-Pistol-14.jpg|thumb|none|600px|]]
[[File:AoT-Pistol-15.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A police officer holds a pistol that can be an FN Model 1903 or an M1911; both appear in the movie in other scenes.]]
The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British-Italian-French biopic directed by Joseph Losey and depicting the last year of the life of Leon Trotsky and his assassination by Ramón Mercader (Frank Jackson in the movie) in August 1940.
The following weapons were used in the film The Assassination of Trotsky:
Lou (Jack Betts, credited as Hunt Powers), the head of Trotsky's bodyguards, carries a revolver in holster. Judging by the shape of the grip with lanyard ring and by the holster, Webley .38 Mk IV seems to be a decent guess. Webley-style revolvers are also seen in hands of Trotsky's bodyguard Jim (Michael Forest) and of a Mexican police detective.
A Colt-style compact revolver, supposedly a Colt Detective Special, is seen in hands of Trotsky's bodyguard Sam (Joshua Sinclair). A Mexican police detective holds a same looking revolver.
What appears to be a Browning Hi-Power is briefly seen in hands and holster of Ruiz (Luigi Vannucchi) (this character is a substitution of real person of David Alfaro Siqueiros, a Mexican painter) when he, disguised as a Mexican police officer, leads his men to attack Trotsky's house.
Ruiz (Luigi Vannucchi) and several of his men use M1928A1 Thompson SMGs during the attack on Trotsky's house. Lou (Jack Betts), the head of Trotsky's bodyguards, also carries a Thompson.