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[ Mauser broomhandle pistol ]

posted 22 years ago by ACT_l
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A question about the Date
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Plot Summary for
Joe Kidd (1972)
http://www.imdb.com/Plot?0068768
Joe Kidd is a former bounty hunter and all-around tough-guy
in the American Southwest during the Mexican-American War.
When a band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied
and all relevant records destroyed in a courthouse fire, they turn to force of arms.
Louis Chama is their charismatic leader,
spouting revolutionary rhetoric and demanding land reform.
A wealthy landowner with interests in the disputed area,
Frank Harlan, decides to settle things his own way.
He hires a band of killers and wants Joe Kidd to help them track Chama.
Initially, Kidd wants to avoid any involvement,
until Chama makes the mistake of stealing Kidd's horses and terrorizing his friends.
Summary written by Tad Dibbern {[email protected]}
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Don Stroud (I) .... Lamarr Simms
Used a Mauser broomhandle pistol 1st made in 1896 : The U.S.-Mexican War was 1846-1848
http://www.donstroud.com/images/DS-13-400.jpg

http://www.google.com/search?q=mauser+broomhandle+history
http://images.google.com/images?q=mauser+broomhandle
http://www.northwest-denture.com/mauser1896/

http://www.google.com/search?q=Mexican-American War
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/
http://www.historyguy.com/Mexican-American_War.html

http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/People/Cowboys/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Guns/Competition_Shooting/Cowboy/19th_Century_Guns/
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ACT1
www.actwon.com/imdb

[–] mac_7091 21 years ago

Yes, did you not see the date on the hotel in the movie...? It was 1896. So he had a Mauser broomhandle pistol.

[–] popeyetim 18 years ago

I do not understand the question on the date(period) of this film...All the hunting style rifles and the broomhandle Mauser are post 1890.
If there was any talk of war with Mexico,it had to be refering to the Spanish-American War witch was going on in Cuba and the South Pacific(Philippines)at that time.
I do agree with an earlier post that the Scope are a bit modern,but it's been a while since I saw the movie.
"I don't recon I got no reason to kill nobody,huh uh"

[–] c-huddleston 18 years ago

While the weapons were contemporaneous with the design of the movie - if anything a "turn of the century" piece where the old ways are gradually changing with the times - it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to find a contemporary telescopic sight: they are rather more delicate than rifles and more prone to being damaged easily. I doubt anyone owning one would have released it for use in the kind of conditions seen in the movie - all that dust, etc.

[–] Captain_Augustus_McCrae 12 years ago

There are no references in this film to the Mexican War. Someone has jumped to a stupid conclusion.

"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae