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Murder on the Orient Express, 2017...
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Michelle Pfeiffer sings "Never Forget" over the closing credits of this movie; the song was co-written by composer Patrick Doyle and director Sir Kenneth Branagh.
Trading Places, 1983.
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Winthorpe and Valentine conduct what's known as "short selling", selling stock (or commodities) that one doesn't own, and then repurchasing the security at a lower price. It's the same principle as "buy low, sell high", just with the actions performed in reverse order. This is available to most clients, in the sense that they borrow the security from the holdings of their brokerage houses. It doesn't seem like Winthorpe and Valentine have a house from which to borrow their F.C.O.J. contracts, but Winthorpe appears to have had the guts to short sell on the fly, knowing the consequences of a mistake. Winthorpe was trading on a cash basis, using cash collateral, which is why Coleman and Ophelia gave the two traders all their cash in the train station.
The Bank Job, 2008..
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Based on the true story about Princess Margaret's sexual affairs with Jamaican men in the 1970s, and of her pictures being caught and saved in a highly secured unknown bank.
Roger Donaldson said one of the most difficult days of filming was when he filmed the brothel scene. The scene called for the women to be walking around wearing only garters. However, Donaldson said that when he went to film the scene he discovered that most of the women shaved their genitals, which would have been anachronistic for 1971. So the actresses had to wear pubic wigs called "merkins." This caused a problem because the merkins were hard to secure in place and kept slipping, causing Donaldson much aggravation.
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940..
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John Steinbeck loved the movie and said that Henry Fonda as Tom Joad made him "believe my own words".
Prior to filming, producer Darryl F. Zanuck sent undercover investigators out to the migrant camps to see if John Steinbeck had been exaggerating about the squalor and unfair treatment meted out there. He was horrified to discover that, if anything, Steinbeck had actually downplayed what went on in the camps.
Murder, My Sweet, 1944..
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For the scene in which Marlowe is drugged, Edward Dmytryk showed Dick Powell falling through a sea of faces. He borrowed a trick from "Saboteur (1942)" by having the camera pull back from the actor to make it seem like he was falling. He also had the camera accelerate as it pulled back, to intensify the horror.
In order to make Mike Mazurki more threatening(he was already 6'5"), Edward Dmytryk had the sets built with slanted ceilings to force the perspective. As Mazurki walked closer to the camera, he seemed almost to grow.
Notting Hill, 1999.... a guilty secret, but does have an excellent version of SHE.
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During the birthday dinner scene, Anna Scott is asked how much she made on her last film, and her reply is $15 million. This is the amount Julia Roberts was paid for her role in this movie.
The long shot where William Thacker walks through Notting Hill during summer, fall, winter, and spring was actually four different shots, all filmed the same day. Computer technology morphed Hugh Grant seamlessly from one shot to the next.
The bit where Anna Scott tells off the diners in the restaurant was not in the script.
great film that... i watch it every anniversary:eyebrows:
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's, 1960..
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Directed by Frank Launder and written by him and Sidney Gilliat.. covers and art work by the great Ronald Searle..
Quigley Down Under, 1990..
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Sharps Rifles are now so inseparably related to this film that they are commonly nicknamed "Quigley guns." Sales for such weapons increased by over 1000% following the film's release, especially in the United States and Australia, and continue through 2013.
Three Sharps rifles were built for the film: one for shooting, one as a club in the fight scenes, and a back-up weapon in case one was damaged. Tom Selleck requested to keep the 3 rifles built for the film. He had two of them reconditioned to remove scratches and straighten and tighten some of the moving parts. Years later, he signed and auctioned 2 of them as part of a fundraiser for the National Rifle Association, of which he is a national board member. Selleck donated the third rifle, with its fringed leather scabbard, and belt knife to the Brownell's Family Museum.
In the scene where Quigley demonstrates the rifle, he mentions that the bullet is paper patched, which might sound like some Hollywood mumbo jumbo. However, it's an actual technique common in the mid- to late-1800's to maximize accuracy/ precision. A thin layer of paper is placed around the bullet which is then used by the barrel rifling to spin the bullet fast enough to stabilize it during flight.
Vertigo, 1958..
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A coda to the film was shot that showed Midge at her apartment, listening to a radio report (voiced by San Francisco TV reporter Dave McElhatton) describing the pursuit of Gavin Elster across Europe. Midge switches the radio off when Scottie enters the room. They then share a drink and look out of the window in silence. Contrary to reports that this scene was filmed to meet foreign censorship needs, this tag ending had originally been demanded by Geoffrey Shurlock of the U.S. Production Code Administration, who had noted: "It will, of course, be most important that the indication that Elster will be brought back for trial is sufficiently emphasized."
Hitchcock finally succeeded in fending off most of Shurlock's demands (which included toning down erotic allusions) and had the alternative ending dropped. The footage was discovered in Los Angeles in May 1993, and was added as an alternative ending on the LaserDisc release, and later on DVD and Blu-ray releases.
Thought that was the stuff that makes copper go green? :DQuote:
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It's about time they released 'Killing Spree' ending for 'It's A Wonderful Life.'Quote:
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was a good one with mel gibson in mr smith goes to washington and ends with a killing spree tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
There's plenty of films that could be improved with a killing spree ending.
Watched 'Kramer Vs Kramer' last week, there's one for starters. That really needs a killing spree before the opening credits and one in the middle too. Probably one of the most boring films I've ever seen.
The Scalphunters, 1968..
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Burt Lancaster had met Ossie Davis on the historic, Martin Luther King "Civil Rights March on Washington" on Aug. 28, 1963. This chance meeting, led to the talented Davis, being cast as "Joseph Winfield Lee" the runaway slave, who uses his clever, resourceful ways to manipulate fur trapper, "Joe Bass", Lancaster, in the film. Lancaster also stated, that first time screenwriter, William W. Norton submitted such a unique, clever script, that he just had to do the film.
Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters reputedly had a two-year affair, earier in the mid-'50s. Shelley was pretty cute in her day.
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The Professionals, 1966..
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During the filming of the scene where Maria attempts to escape through a canyon wired with dynamite, Claudia Cardinale's stunt double was badly injured during the explosion. Cardinale, who had never ridden a horse before, performed the stunt herself for the final cut, and escaped uninjured.
Despite the principal male actors being in their 50's (except for Lee Marvin, who was only 42), all of them insisted on performing their own stunts. However, only Woody Strode performed all of his stunts as there were no black stuntmen who came close to his height and stature. Burt Lancaster, who was 52 at the time, did most of his own stunts, including being hung upside down in Coyote Pass and running across the top of the moving train car. The studio balked, however, at Lancaster climbing the side of the cliff in the pass to plant the dynamite and a stuntman was substituted. Even though Palance was as tall as Strode, he had to use a stunt double for the scenes where he was wounded and fell off his horse, because falling the wrong way off a horse could lead to serious injuries.
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The Comancheros, 1961..
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George Sherman produced this film, and Michael Curtiz directed it. During much of the shooting, Curtiz was seriously ill (he died of cancer shortly after the film's release). On the days when Curtiz was too ill to work, John Wayne took over direction, and when it was completed, he told the studio that he did not want credit as co-director, and insisted that Curtiz's name alone appear as director. Wayne performed the same function in 1971 on Big Jake (1971), which was directed by Sherman., who took ill during production. Wayne directed the film on the days when Sherman couldn't and also insisted that he not receive co-director credit.
On the first day of filming, John Wayne reprimanded third assistant director Tom Mankiewicz for wearing a John F. Kennedy button. He told him, "I'd take that button off if I were you. We don't advertise socialists on my set." Wayne had campaigned for Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. Presidential election, and blamed Kennedy for losing the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Silver Streak, 1976..
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Stir Crazy, 1980..
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Murder, She Said, 1961....
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Despite privately remaining unimpressed by this movie, Dame Agatha Christie dedicated her 1962 book "The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side" to Dame Margaret Rutherford, "in admiration".
Richard Briers received twenty-five pounds sterling for his scene as "Mrs. Binster", shot on the final day of filming.
This movie, the first in series with Rutherford, was a success at the box-office, earning MGM a profit of $342,000 ($3.29M in 2022) according to studio records.
The Life of Birds, 1998..
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Enemy of the State, 1998..
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The N.S.A. refused to cooperate with the production. Aerial footage of their headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland had to be shot from public air space.
The picture of a younger Gene Hackman shown in a white shirt and tie, supposedly from his N.S.A. file, was taken from The Conversation (1974). Hackman's character Edward "Brill" Lyle, closely resembles his "Conversation" character, Harry Caul. In The Conversation (1974), Harry Caul, like Brill, is a paranoid surveillance expert who has his workplace in an industrial warehouse. Also, Brill wears the same translucent raincoat worn by Harry Caul in the previous movie. In the movie Harry Caul (like Robert Clayton Dean in this movie) is pressured to hand over a tape that has evidence of a murder conspiracy. At the end of The Conversation (1974), Caul demolishes his apartment when he thinks people who have been observing him might be coming for him. It's been suggested by more than one movie critic that Brill could actually be an older Harry Caul, living under a pseudonym.
The Rock, 1996..
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Sir Sean Connery insisted the producers build a cabin for him on Alcatraz, as he didn't want to travel from the mainland to the island every day. He got what he asked for.
There were tensions during shooting between director Michael Bay and Walt Disney Studios executives who were supervising the production. On the commentary track for the Criterion Collection DVD, Bay recalls a time when he was preparing to leave the set for a meeting with the executives and was approached by Sir Sean Connery in golfing attire. Connery, who also produced this movie, asked Bay where he was going, and when Bay explained that he had a meeting with the executives, Connery asked if he could accompany him. Bay complied, and when Bay arrived in the conference room, the executives' jaws dropped when they saw Connery appear behind him. According to Bay, Connery then stood up for him, and insisted that he was doing a good job and should be left alone.
Some of the Navy SEALs in this movie were played by real Navy SEALs.
One of my favourite films. :)Quote:
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Not a bad film - but IMO, not a patch on 'The Conversation'.Quote:
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The Hunt... Attenbourgh/BBC..
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super series that.. amazing pictures and good info.
One of my favourites- introduced my wife to it last week, she absolutely loved it too. Going to watch Highlander tonight to continue the Connery theme.Quote:
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The Jungle Book, 2016... a masterpiece of film making imo
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One of the treasures in King Louie's temple is the Genie's lamp from Aladdin (1992).
The CGI character Baloo is so large and furry, he took almost five hours of rendering time per frame.
The talking animals in this movie were created using animal behavior, then having the actors and actresses copy those movements in motion-capture visual effects.
Lyricist Richard M. Sherman, who wrote songs for The Jungle Book (1967), composed a new verse for "Wanna Be Like You" for Christopher Walken, where King Louie declares that he is a Gigantopithecus.
This is the final movie of Garry Shandling (Ikki the Porcupine), released less than a month after he died of a heart attack. In a tragic parallel, The Jungle Book (1967) also had a posthumous performance from Verna Felton (Winifred, Hathi's wife).
Too Many Crooks, 1959....
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Gordon's car is a 1955 Jaguar XK 140. In excellent condition in 2019 this car could be worth $150,000 or more. As of 2010 the car in the film was still registered in the U.K.
The hearse is a 1927 Rolls-Royce Phantom I. Most hearses like this one started out as limos and were re-bodied in the 1930s to 1950s.
The American car the crooks crash into the storefront is a 1941 Chrysler Royal.
The Abyss, 1989..
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Real oxygenated fluorocarbon fluid was used in the rat fluid breathing scene. Dr. Johannes Kylstra and Dr. Peter Bennett of Duke University pioneered this technique and consulted on the film, giving detailed instructions on how to prepare the fluid. The only reason for cutting to the actors' faces was to avoid showing the rats defecating from momentary panic as they began breathing the fluid.
Very few scenes involved stunt people. When Bud drags Lindsey back to the rig, that's really Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio holding her breath. When the rig is being flooded and characters are running from water, drowning behind closed doors, and dodging exploding parts of the rig, those are all actors, not stunt people. Ed Harris reportedly punched James Cameron in the face after he kept filming while he was nearly drowning.
James Cameron nearly drowned during production while he was weighed down at the bottom of the giant water tank during filming. His assistant director had failed to warn him to refill his oxygen, and realizing that he was running out of air, Cameron asked for help from underwater DP Al Giddings. However, Giddings couldn't hear him (he was near-deaf from an old diving-bell accident), and with no one else nearby, Cameron realized he had to go top-side as soon as possible. He quickly released his helmet, harness and weights, and started to swim with great speed to the surface, exhaling all the way in order to prevent lung damage from decompression. One of the safety divers held him down and gave him a regulator, but it was broken and only produced water. Cameron tried to release himself, but the diver, thinking that Cameron was simply having a panic attack, held him even tighter. Cameron only survived because he punched the diver in the face, and reached the surface before passing out. The AD and the diver were fired the same day.
Sherlock Holmes, 2009...
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Watson's line to Holmes, "You know that what you're drinking is for eye surgery?", is an obscure reference to Holmes' cocaine usage. At the time, cocaine was used as a topical anesthetic for eye surgery. In the stories, Holmes injects cocaine.
In the stories, Holmes is described to be an expert in Baritsu. In the film, however, the martial art that Holmes used is the Wing-Chun Kung Fu (famously used by Ip Man Yee and Bruce Lee). Robert Downey, Jr. is a practitioner of the art in real-life, and the fight scene between him and David Garrick at Punch Bowl Pit was coordinated with the help of his trainer.
Sounds more exciting than the actual film.Quote:
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The Belles of St. Trinian's, 1954..
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The school motto, written under the silver cup stands, is "In flagrante delicto", Latin for "a burning offense". However, it was commonly used in British divorce cases as a euphemism for caught in the act of sex. It would, of course, hardly be the motto of a girls' school.
Whisky Galore!, 1949...
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The story is based on a real-life incident that occurred in 1941 on the Hebridean island of Eriskay when the SS Politician ran aground. The tale of how a group of local Scottish islanders raided a shipwreck for its consignment of 24,000 cases of whisky quickly became legend. What's less well reported, however, was the fact that the ship was also carrying a sizeable amount of hard cash. According to official files recently released by the Home Office, there were nearly 290,000 ten shilling notes on board as well (the equivalent of several million pounds in today's currency) not all of which was ever recovered.
American censors of the day insisted on a coda being inserted at the end of the film stating that the stolen whisky brought nothing but unhappiness to the islanders, even though quite the opposite was true in real life.
Waterloo Road. 1945...
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When Dr. Montgomery (Alastair Sim) deals with the blow Jim Colter (John Mills) sustained to his head, he applies a round sticking plaster. In the next shot it has changed to a horizontal rectangle. When Jim arrives at the Alcazar club, the plaster is a vertical rectangle. By the time he reaches The Lucky Star to accost Ted Purvis (Stewart Granger) the plaster has disappeared.
Two Way Stretch, 1960....
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Peter Sellers proved very difficult for director Robert Day to work with and at one point, even walked off the film. He was eventually persuaded to return, but Day later calculated that he had put about ten days on the shooting schedule through his tantrums.
The prison scenes were filmed at the South Cavalry Barracks at Aldershot, and the security van robbery at Pirbright Arch in the village of Brookwood in Surrey.
Lionel Jeffries again in... Murder Ahoy!, 1964...
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H.M.S. Battledore was portrayed on deck by T.S. Arethusa, a training ship used by the Royal Navy (known in later years as the "Peking"). The story of the real ship may have inspired the script in many ways, as the Arethusa was used for many years as a sail training vessel and a "children's home" for wayward boys. However, the aft section of the ship in this movie featuring the panoramic stern windows of the Captain's cabin was a creation (as a matte painting in the wide shots and a set in the closer ones), as the real ship's stern had no resemblance to it. The ship was moved from Britain to the U.S. in 1974 and was docked in New York for many years, but it was moved to Hamburg, Germany in 2016.
The Square Peg, 1958...
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Norman and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Norman takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero
Planet Earth 2, 2016..4k.
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Scrooge, 1951... B&W classic...Alistair Sim stars..
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The word "humbug" provides insight into Ebenezer Scrooge's hatred of Christmas, as it describes deceitful efforts to fool people by pretending to a fake loftiness or false sincerity. Therefore, when Scrooge calls Christmas a humbug, he is claiming that people only pretend to be charitable and kind in an effort to delude him, each other, and themselves. In Scrooge's eyes, he is the one man who is honest enough to admit that no one really cares about anyone else, so (to him) every wish for a Merry Christmas is one more deceitful effort to fool him and take advantage of him. This is a man who has turned to profit because he honestly believes everyone else will someday betray him or abandon him the moment he trusts them.
Changes to the screenplay from the Charles Dickens book were made, mostly in the Christmas Past sequence. Among these changes are: reversing the birth order of Scrooge and his sister, so as to add that Scrooge's mother died giving birth to him; creating a character named "Mr. Jorkin" and flashbacks of several incidents in Scrooge's past (his sister's death, meeting Jacob Marley, taking over Fezziwig's warehouse, and Marley's death) which do not appear in the book.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939...
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After being out of circulation for many years, partly because of the 1959 Hammer remake (The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)) in Technicolor starring Peter Cushing, this film was restored and re-released to theaters in 1975 with great fanfare, to the point of having the national evening news do a story on it. The film was shown at its full 80-minute length, and newspaper and magazine articles commented on the fact that the line "Oh, Watson, the needle!", referring to Holmes' cocaine habit (and usually misquoted as "Quick, Watson, the needle!") was put back in after having been cut by the censors. As an added attraction, the studio added a rare sound film featurette which showed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes books, talking about his creation.
Little Big Man, 1970..
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back 3 years and over to my hdd for ... Private's Progress, 1956..
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The Spy in Black, 1939... oldie but goodie this starring conrad veidt.https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...aaaGL._AC_.jpg
conrad was a voriferous anti nazi, but played nasty nazis to slur the devils..
Picked this up on eBay new for 15 notes and free delivery, which was quick too.
5 films, 4 of I don't have.
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Chance of a Lifetime, 1950.... main reason i bought this set as ive been after this for a while..
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Hattie Jacques was able to do her own welding, as she had done the job during the war.
The Rank and Associated British cinemas refused to show the film, claiming it was too political and "would annoy employers". The Ministry of Labour and the British Employers Confederation argued that the film would damage management-employee relations, particularly in the light of renewed industrial unrest in early 1950. The chairman of the Board of Trade, Harold Wilson, argued in cabinet that this was overreaction and the cabinet approved the film's release, using the 1948 Film Act to ensure the film was shown on the major cinema circuit.
The film was an unexpected flop at the box office.A Mass-Observation survey at the time found that only 1/3 of the people who watched the film had intended to do so, with the majority of attendees doing so 'either out of habit [in attending the cinema] or because they had nothing better to do.
A year latr this came out... The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951.... Directed by Robert Wise..
The equations seen on Professor Barnhardt's blackboard are authentic physics, and describe a particular form of the famous "three-body problem" in Newtonian gravitation, a problem which has no general closed-form solution. Such many-body problems are central to navigation in interstellar space. The manner of writing and organization of the terms show that a real physicist had produced the work.
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Kelly's Heroes, 1970...
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The screenplay was written by British film and television writer Troy Kennedy Martin. He relied on a true story, featured as "The Greatest Robbery on Record" in Guinness World Records.
The Tiger I tanks were actually Soviet T-34 tanks that had been modified to look like the German tank. The U.S. Sherman tanks were the M4A3E4 variant. Kelly's platoon also drove an M3 Gun Motor Carriage before it was destroyed on the hill, as well as several half-tracks. The Germans also drove a Kübelwagen.
Kelly's men were armed with a mix of .30 caliber machine guns, Browning Automatic Rifles, and Thompson submachine guns, with few carbines and no M-1 rifles. Gutkowski, the unit's sniper, was armed with a Soviet Mosin–Nagant M91/30 rifle. The German soldiers were armed almost exclusively with MP 40 submachine guns.
The U.S. plane that attacked Kelly's group was a Yugoslavian Soko 522 with a U.S. Army air force roundels.