Les Misarables

[Rifleman1776]

My wife purchased this in DVD and we watched it last night. All in all, a well done movie with a lot of history worked in. Not unlike The Patriot, it still reeked of Hollywood. The guns were interesting. Charlyvilles were the only long guns I could pick out. A wide variety of smoothbore flint pistols were shown. One had a barrel that looked about 18" long. Many others were short. From appearance, I'm guesstimating they were all in the .69 to .75 cal. range.
But, the "Hollywood" part that caught my attention was that just before shooting the frizzens were open. Apparently, no one on the set had a notion of how those flinters really worked. :youcrazy: Oh, well, the special effects "bang" part was well done.

 

[Coffeecup]

When I saw the play (maybe 15 years ago) the only actual firing was done with an ever-so-slightly-tarted up trapdoor Springfield.

 

[Rifleman1776]

When I saw the play (maybe 15 years ago) the only actual firing was done with an ever-so-slightly-tarted up trapdoor Springfield.

Time period for the story was about 1799-1815. Uh-Oh! :shocked2: Trapdoor? Hollywood. :wink:

 

[Captjoel]

I have seen two different movie versions of this story. The first starred Gerard De Pardue (sp) from the Christopher Columbus movie fame, in the leading role and John Malkovitch as the prison wardon\constable out to make life misserable. The second, more recent film starred Leam Neeson. Both good movies and great entertainment. My vision to see what guns were used isn't to good! Everything moves to fast and details are more of a blurr to me. But the costumes for the French Napolianic era seemed OK.

 

[Carteret Kid]

When I saw the play (maybe 15 years ago) the only actual firing was done with an ever-so-slightly-tarted up trapdoor Springfield.

Time period for the story was about 1799-1815. Uh-Oh! :shocked2: Trapdoor? Hollywood. :wink:

In a movie about Catherine the Great they used converted Mosin Nagants with flash pans.

 

[rickystl]

Trapdoors? Hollywood? Made to look like flintlocks? Nahhhhh.......couldn't be..