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Did you notice the kick of the...


...rifles as the marines were storming the palace? Unlike other films where people fire rifles with no recoil! I believed they were firing with real bullets! It just looked that way.

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The Marines in the film were twenty real Marines and a company of Spanish special forces troops. I imagine they knew how to handle firearms.

"I am Mr. Shackelford's attorney, Rusty Shackelford, and my client pleads insanity."

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