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Mutiny on the Bounty (the 1962 version). Not much ML'er action, but they're in it.
You are correct. Here name was Cora.I thought it was "Crazy Cora" in Quigley Down Under.Not sure who Alice is. My wife has a niece named Cora so it kind of stuck. Plus she's alittle crazy too.
Black Robe! Great Canadien movie from the early 90's based on a book by Brian Moore. I used to live in the Northeast and the movie was very evocative of long desolate winters. The movie offers an interesting perspective on first impressions, and the misunderstanding the Europeans and natives had of each other's culture.
Awhile back in this thread, somebody (I think it was Coinneach) mentioned Victoria Racimo, who was the female lead in the movie "The Mountainmen." She and Charleton Heston were cast members who attended the 1980 Joint NAPR/NMLRA Rendezvous in La Veta, Colorado. I had occasion to spend a little time with her there. I had expected a self-centered Hollyweird prima donna but found that she was a real lady, pleasant and considerate of others' feelings as well as being fun to talk to and very nice to look at. Both of those stars mixed right in with us buckskinners and took part in the rendezvous activities. My personal memories include Charleton Heston shooting in a Rifle Match and Victoria learning to throw a tomahawk effectively.
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Free State of Jones has the only depiction I've seen on film of a soldier loading a Rifle-Musket while laying behind cover . There are some good battle scenes within an otherwise mediocre movie
The Last of the Mohicans
The Revolution with Al Pacino
Sharpe's Rifles (a series but still cool)
I am beginning to think that you and I are the only two on this thread that were at the 1980 Joint in La Veta. You must be as old as I am! I am about to turn 80.Awhile back in this thread, somebody (I think it was Coinneach) mentioned Victoria Racimo, who was the female lead in the movie "The Mountainmen." She and Charleton Heston were cast members who attended the 1980 Joint NAPR/NMLRA Rendezvous in La Veta, Colorado. I had occasion to spend a little time with her there. I had expected a self-centered Hollyweird prima donna but found that she was a real lady, pleasant and considerate of others' feelings as well as being fun to talk to and very nice to look at. Both of those stars mixed right in with us buckskinners and took part in the rendezvous activities. My personal memories include Charleton Heston shooting in a Rifle Match and Victoria learning to throw a tomahawk effectively.
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Took 110 posts to get to the Alamo.Centennial, parts of the last of the Mohicans , parts of the Patriot, a movie from the 50’s Deerslayer. Alamo, Gettysburg.Jeremiah Johnson, parts of Sargent York
While I wasn't at the Old LaVeta Pass shindig, I did get to spend a few minutes chatting with Mr. Heston when he had lunch at The Covered Wagon restaurant in LV. Because of the screen blowing down during the attempted premiere of The Mountain Men during the rendezvous, it was moved to the Trail Drive-In outside of Walsenburg. Frank Piazza (the owner) graciously opened it for the event.I am beginning to think that you and I are the only two on this thread that were at the 1980 Joint in La Veta. You must be as old as I am! I am about to turn 80.
I am beginning to think that you and I are the only two on this thread that were at the 1980 Joint in La Veta. You must be as old as I am! I am about to turn 80.
We used to shoot off hand at 750 yards at the old Virginia City Buffler Runners matches. We were hitting, and no one seemed to be bothered by the weight. I was shooting a 14# Business rifle.Here in Australia its regarded as a manure PC movie, Whites being typecast and pilloried.
BTW a fella would have to be built like a Gorilla to hold a full length Sharps rifle, off hand steady enough to hit anything out to range.
Lots of muskets, pistols and hand to hand in the mud in this one.
The Sharpe's Rifles series. For the pre-flinter type, Alatriste and Admiral.
The "shoot the bad guy with your ramrod" scene:
Some of these are also available on Prime.
I liked the movie, mostly because I’m a Sellaik fan. But yes it is an Anti Australian movie so I understand you pov.Here in Australia its regarded as a manure PC movie, Whites being typecast and pilloried.
BTW a fella would have to be built like a Gorilla to hold a full length Sharps rifle, off hand steady enough to hit anything out to range.
Movies aren't history, but dramatizations of historical events or periods. While I know of no incidents of civilians being rounded up and burned in churches, the British Army, Loyalist auxiliaries and Germanic mercenaries behaved abominably during the war. Rape and pillage were routine and the British frequently gave no quarter, and those prisoners they did take were horribly mistreated.Have to pick Master and Commander as my all-time favorite muzzle-loader-era film; think it a cinematic tragedy the miser-minded investors cancelled the intended sequel. Second would be Glory; more than casually acquainted with the Black church from my boyhood and young-adult years of living in the South, that spiritual being sung in the final pre-battle scene always gives me chills. Then, as others say, judging on the basis of accuracy in ML representation, parts of the '92 version of Last of the Mohicans (read the book as a boy c. 1950 or so); parts of Jeremiah Johnson; parts of the Sharpe's Rifles series; parts of the Hornblower series (all the books of which I read as a boy); and parts of Gettysburg (though its portrayal of Lee as bordering on senile dementia is grotesquely misleading).
Must also confess that both as a near-lifelong student of history and the descendant of Loyalists -- my ancestors settled in what is now Connecticut c. 1630 or thereabouts but were driven out after 1789, exiled to Canada or back to England and Scotland, returning only in 1902 (my late father, Massachusetts-born in 1910, was thus first generation this time around) -- I bristle at the German Nazi atrocity falsely attributed to the Loyalists in Patriot and for that reason despise the film. ('Twas the German Nazis herded people into churches and barns and burned them alive, not the troops of the fictional representation of Banastre Tarleton.) Also the film does grave injustice to the revolutionary cause by ignoring the pivotal contribution of Morgan's riflemen, the over-mountain volunteers who actually set up the U.S. victory at Cowpens by shooting many of Tarleton's officers (including an ancestor) as the Loyalist cavalry rode out of the forest at real-world ranges of up to about 250 yards.
We used to shoot off hand at 750 yards at the old Virginia City Buffler Runners matches. We were hitting, and no one seemed to be bothered by the weight. I was shooting a 14# Business rifle.
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