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== Corner Shot Gun == | == Corner Shot Gun == | ||
[[Image:Claudio_Brook- | [[Image:Claudio_Brook-Winchester_rifle.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The circus marksman Rodolfo ([[Claudio Brook]]) finds one of his special rifles is badly bent after an explosion - he doesn't throw it out, ...]] | ||
[[Image:Claudio_Brook-special_rifle.jpg|thumb|none|600px| ... but attaches a mirror to the barrel and uses the bent gun to shoot around the corner.]] | |||
== Skyton-Babbit Model 1907 == | == Skyton-Babbit Model 1907 == | ||
Revision as of 18:45, 9 April 2012
Viva Maria! is a French western comedy was directed by Louis Malle in 1965 about two women named Maria who meet and become revolutionaries in the early 20th century. Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley (Brigitte Bardot) is the daughter of an Irish political dissident who has traveled to Latin America with her father to take part in an anarchist political uprising. When her father is killed, Maria, left to her own devices, happens upon a traveling circus, where she strikes up a friendship with one of the performers, french singer also named Marie (Jeanne Moreau). Maria O'Malley joins up with the carnival, and she works up a dance routine with Maria; the act is a smash hit, especially after the Irish Maria accidentally loses part of her costume during a performance. Despite their success, the two Marias find themselves increasingly distressed with the poverty and brutality of the peasants' lives, and they soon decide to use their talents in support of revolutionary leader Flores (George Hamilton). But Florès was insidiously shot from by gun of landowner Rodriguez (Carlos López Moctezuma). On his deathbed, Mary swears he will continue his fight and joins with his friends to a perones uprising.
The following weapons were used in the movie Viva Maria!:
Handguns
Colt Bisley
Peon pulls the Colt Bisley revolver from a "safe hiding place".
Smith & Wesson M1917 Revolver
The rebels has seized in the armory also Smith & Wesson M1917 revolvers.
Colt New Service
Some of the Mexican soldiers was firing from a Colt New Service revolvers.
Rifles
Winchester Model 1894
The most commonly used weapons of the Mexican Revolution was a Winchester Model 1894 rifle.
Winchester Model 1892
In the landowner´s armory was found full of Winchester Model 1892 rifles.
Mauser Rifle Series
The soldiers and also some rebels were armed with Mauser Rifle Series.
Machine Guns
Soldiers deployed against peon-rebels the Hotchkiss M1914 Machine Gun (right).
Hotchkiss M1914 Machine Gun
Maxim M1910
This type of machine gun Maxim rarely occurred in Mexico, but rather was used type MG08.
Other
F1 hand grenade
Mills Bomb
Fuse Bomb
6-pounder Mountain Howitzer
Fantasy Weapons
Corner Shot Gun
Skyton-Babbit Model 1907
Pigeon bombing of Hand Grenades
In the film appears as a bomber the pigeon, which throw hand grenades at the enemy position.
