I know it wasn't that stinker, but one "Alamo" I saw had Texans using lever-action Winchesters! I threw a rod so bad the wife thought I had a coronary. Well, maybe I did. Frigging awful. Being a gun nut, I could fill pages with inaccuracies. I can overlook breechloading trapdoor Springfields having a flint hammer to portray earlier muzzle loaders, but lever-actions in 1836?
In a river crossing scene in the old "Red Badge of Courage", the Union troops are holding 1880s trapdoors over their heads as they ford a stream. One guy is holding up a M1906 Springfield. Closeups did show Audie Murphy shooting a M1861 though, so Huston gets a pass.
Probably those into clothing could add a bunch also, but the ones you mention are right up there. Saw the trailer for the new Pearl Harbor and when I saw clipper bows on the ships, I passed. Like another poster mentioned, "Tora! Tora! Tora!" passed the test.
There is a Polish movie about when the Soviets attempted to invade Poland in 1920 but failed that I am interested in. Does anybody know the title of that movie and if it has English subtitles?
Devil’s Brigade: In real life they never wore a red beret or even any kind of beret.
In a river crossing scene in the old "Red Badge of Courage", the Union troops are holding 1880s trapdoors over their heads as they ford a stream. One guy is holding up a M1906 Springfield. Closeups did show Audie Murphy shooting a M1861 though, so Huston gets a pass.
Drives me nuts too. Love John Wayne Westerns, but come on, Model 1894 Winchesters in 1870? The list goes on and on, Civil War movies with Model 1873 Colt's .45 cartridge revolvers, Wichesters disguised to look like Henry rifles, etc. The one film that did finally get ti right was Tombstone; period correct weapons, holsters saddles and clothes.
***One guy is holding up a M1906 Springfield.***
In the RUSSIAN VERSION of WAR AND PEACE (1968) during the battle of Bordino, if you look closely you will see a few Russian soldiers armed with Mosin-Nagant bolt action rifles. LOOK QUICK!