Blott on the Landscape
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Main Cast
Character
Actor
Blott on the Landscape David Suchet as Blott, the gardener in Handyman Hall estate that is under the threat of destruction due to the building of a motorway.
The following weapons were used in the miniseries Blott on the Landscape :
Shotguns Double Barreled Shotgun Blott (David Suchet ) and Lady Maud Lynchwood (Geraldine James ) hold a Double Barreled Shotgun in several scenes.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Samuel Buckley & Company/Anson & Deeley Side by Side Shotgun - 12 gauge Error creating thumbnail: File missing Blott carries a shotgun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lady Maud carries a shotgun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Blott aims at Sir Giles Lynchwood. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Under the threat of a gun Blott orders Sir Giles to go away from the estate. Assault Rifles AK-47 In several flashback scenes, showing Blott's past as a soldier of East German army, numerous AK-47s are seen.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Final Production version of the Type III AK-47 with laminated stock - 7.62x39mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing East German soldiers on shooting range. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The receiver mounted sling bracket is a feature of Type III AK-47. Error creating thumbnail: File missing One more AK-47. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Note the open front sight. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soldiers with AK-47s (note the unhooded front sight at the right) on the bridge on the Inner German border. Norinco Type 56 Along with AK-47s, Norinco Type 56 assault rifles are also seen, identified by the hooded front sight.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Norinco Type 56, milled receiver without the under-folding ("pig sticker") bayonet - 7.62x39mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Blott holds a Type 56 on shooting range, firing in full-auto instead of single shots, as his comrades-in-arms do. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The hooded front sight of Blott's Type 56 is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier with seemingly Type 56 on watchtower on the Inner German border. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier fires his Type 56 at a balloon, flying across the border (the scene was definitely inspired by the East German balloon escape in 1979). Machine Guns Bren Mk I Blott finds two Bren Mk I machine guns in a wartime hidden cache in the wine cellar. He uses one of these guns to fire at his own gatehouse and blame the authorities in making at attack on "Englishman's home".
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bren Mk1 (M) - .303 British. Simplified version with no grip or butt strap on the stock and with dovetail mount on the left side of the receiver deleted, and a slightly different flash hider Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Bren with disassembled barrel in crate. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two Bren guns in Blott's gatehouse. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Blott fires the Bren. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of the barrel. A PIAT is seen at the background. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Blott reloads... Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...and continues firing. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Bren and PIAT in half-destroyed Blott's gatehouse. SG-43 In flashback scenes, an SG-43 machine gun is seen mounted on East German watchtower.
Goryunov SGM on tripod - 7.62x54mm R Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing SG-43 on the watchtower. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The machine gun fires on flying balloon. Other Weapons PIAT Blott also finds a PIAT anti-tank launcher in the wine cellar. He uses it to open Sir Giles' heavily armoured safe box, and to damage the gatehouse in the final episode.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank (PIAT) with loaded bomb - 3.25 in Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close-up of the PIAT. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Blott readies the launcher. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A view from the front. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Blott fires a bomb to open the safe box. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A PIAT is seen at the background in the night scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Blott operates the PIAT. Unidentified weapon When Blott destroyes the gatehouse in the final episode, he uses one more weapon exept for Bren and PIAT. It is seen in darkness and only partially. What is seen allows to make a very vague guess that it may be a kind of 2 inch mortar .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The supposed mortar fires. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The barrel is seen at the right. Trivia Grappling hook launcher SAS commandos use a grappling hook launcher in the attempt to reach the rooftop of Blott's gatehouse. The launcher isn't pneumatic as after the "shot" the scene is covered with smoke.
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