Talk:Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Guns used by the rednecks

I See a lot of lever rifles in the possy and the sheriff apprently uses a bolt action rifle, please if anyone have the movie help me to put some screencaps.

I'll see about doing a few caps tonight. I think I still have that dvd. (krispic)

Welp, cancel that. You've got pretty much all the usable pics already. I posted a couple of clearer caps but there's not much really visible in that movie that hasn't already been identified. The sheriff's rifle is never seen enough to get a decent cap of any sort. The only time he's seen actually shooting, it's a handgun. (krispic)

Yeah this movie was tough to screen cap due to the poor quality. I guess you can’t expect too much from a B&W low budget independent film made in the 60s. Really dark in some scenes and during the daytime scenes the sunlight basically causes a whiteout. I didn’t think that the one posse member used a Lee Enfield No.1 Mk3 because to me it looks like the barrel is much longer, but I guess that is just a branch or something in the background. That one screen shot you put up is really good, is that like a deleted scene? Anyway good job identifying some of the rifles. --Mauser 18:55, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

One big prob is that most scenes with firearms are also capped from the tv broadcasts making them even worse. The Lee Enfield is pretty much definitely the No1 Mk3. Have one here that I could measure. It's exact. The receiver bolt bridge is visible in the pic just above the back edge of the magazine and the rear sight, mounted on the barrel is in line with his chin. The stock is cut just right at the barrel band and the muzzle is just above the tv screen edge. Even the magazine lanyard chain loop is visible right in front of the magazine.

That one cap is the very last shot just before the fellow shoots Ben....his elbow is visible in the cap with the chief and the guy who shoots Ben aiming his Ithaca. It's probably the best danged cap in the entire movie. It's a real quick clip.

The white pants/pistol cap is the wrong shape and too short in the front to be a 1911. It's almost certainly a Walther PPK or even a PP, the holster is a strong giveaway, too. I'd label it as such, but I think there would be too many arguments. It's just not clear enough. (krispic) feb 21, 06:59

Winchester ammo

When Ben discovers the gun and ammunition in the closet there's a blink and you'll miss it kind of moment. If you pause the movie you can see not only the "Kleanbore" label indicating Remington brand ammo, you can also see "32" on the side of the box, suggesting the 94 isn't chambered in .30-30.

Since this film is in the public domain, can you get a cap? --Funkychinaman 19:50, 12 August 2012 (CDT)

I'm afraid my image capturing abilities are quite crude and primitive. My work on the page for Return of the Living Dead 2 is proof of that. --Ballistics_Expert2

And you know, it could just be a random box of ammo. I've seen plenty of gun/ammo mismatches. --Funkychinaman 19:23, 13 August 2012 (CDT)

I haven't looked at the discussion on this one in a good while so I apologize for the lateness of this reply. I went back and checked the scene mentioned and it IS in fact Remington Kleanbore .32 Winchester Special ammo in at least that one box. I uploaded a cap and a pic of a box for comparison.

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In that scale, .30-30 Win and .32 Win Spl are pretty much identical. Side by side, they'd be almost identical. There's no reason in my mind to doubt that the rifle *was* a .32 Win Spl. as the gentleman above said. Great eyes, sir! I think it deserves a mention in the text, but probably not worth a full pic. If anyone wants to, feel free to edit those I uploaded.--krispic

Molotov cocktails

Molotov cocktails are thrown to keep the zombies at bay.

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Molotov cocktail being lit.

Public Domain

Not related to the guns within it, but this movie, for reasons which I'm not 100% clear on, was never copyrighted by George Romero, and as a result anyone can recut the movie into their own edition and legally sell it as their own original work. - User: 2wingo -- I heard that Romero forgot to put the rights notice in the credits and the time passed and wth it the opportunity to register it passed.--Dillinger (talk) 01:27, 18 March 2015 (EDT)