Talk:Hemingway & Gellhorn

Guns

I was an extra playing a Republican soldier during the Spanish Civil War in this film. We managed to take some behind the scenes photographs, which I will link to momentarily.

There were only two types of firing rifles used by us soldier extras - Mosin-Nagants and what i was told by the armorers were Mauser rifles, but don't appear to look like the "Spanish Mauser" listed on this website (note the interesting sloping rear sight)

Anytime the camera wasn't close enough or there was no live firing, we were given lightweight non firing guns. Most of them were these wood and metal amalgamations that appeared strikingly like an M1903 Springfield. They were old and beat up replicas, many missing the front or back sights, or both. They seemed like ROTC training rifles.

There was also one Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III floating around, also a non-firing replica.

There were a handful of rubber and resin guns. -See the guys on the left and right These were used primarily by soldiers on horseback, stunt people who had to "die" in a scene, but a couple were given to the general soldiers. These are especially conspicuous because the barrel extended slightly longer beyond the front sight than the rest of the guns, they had an oversize bayonet lug, and also none of the rubber guns had shoulder straps. --Variableorange 22:29, 28 May 2011 (CDT)