The Black Monocle (Le Monocle noir): Difference between revisions
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The Black Monocle (Le Monocle noir): Difference between revisions
The Black Monocle (Le Monocle noir) is a 1961 French B&W detective comedy directed by Georges Lautner and starring Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen and Bernard Blier. Théobald Dromard alias "The Monocle" (Meurisse) is a secret agent who infiltrates a Neo Nazi organization with the headquarters in the castle of Marquis de Villemaur.
The movie was followed by two sequels about the adventures of "The Monocle": The Eye of the Monocle (L'oeil du monocle) (1962) and The Monocle Laughs (Le monocle rit jaune) (1964).
The following weapons were used in the film The Black Monocle (Le Monocle noir): Error creating thumbnail: File missingWARNING! THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS!
During the shootout in the dungeons of the castle, Mathias' (Lutz Gabor) M1911A1 runs dry, and in the next moment he is seen with a revolver that has come out of nowhere. In the following scene Mathias is again armed with an M1911.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingMathias holds a revolver of unclear model in his wounded and bandaged right hand. In previous and following scenes he uses an M1911A1, holding it in the left hand.
Marquis' henchman Jean (Raoul Saint-Yves) holds a revolver during the shootout.
The secret agent of the French military intelligence service, Commandant (Maj.) Théobald Dromard alias "The Monocle" (Paul Meurisse) carries an M1911A1 pistol. Heinrich von Moersch (Gérard Buhr) and Mathias Fisher (Lutz Gabor) also use M1911s.
In the climactic scene Marquis de Villemaur's daughter Bénédicte (Marie Dubois) holds a Beretta M1935 pistol. Judging by the markings on the grip and the slide and the slanted serration, the pistol is a 1950s export modification. Heinrich von Moersch (Gérard Buhr) fires a Beretta M1934/35 during the shootout in the dungeons of the castle; his pistol seems to have slanted serration, so this is most likely the same prop reused. Jean (Raoul Saint-Yves) briefly holds a Beretta during the chase after Mathias; this pistol again may be the same prop.
Dromard's aide Trochu (Jacques Marin) carries an FN Model 1910 pistol. In the opening scene Marquis' henchman Jean (Raoul Saint-Yves) takes a pistol from a murdered plainclothes police detective; this gun also seems to be an FN 1910.
In one scene Martha alias Erika Murger (Elga Andersen) holds a nickel plated pocket pistol. The pistol bears resemblance with the Walther PPK but still differs.
Various pistols are briefly seen in hands of uniformed and plainclothes police personnel. None of these guns is seen clear enough for proper identification.
