Hawkeye_Joe Posted November 12, 2016 Report Share Posted November 12, 2016 Is this a real period photo or a still from Public Enemies? The caption says it's real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD. Posted November 12, 2016 Report Share Posted November 12, 2016 (edited) World War II milled two-piece stamped ejector - a still from Public Enemies...IMO (a big thank you to gijive below for correcting the obvious error) Edited November 13, 2016 by TD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reconbob Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 I think Public Enemies. The ejected cases are much longer than if they wereempty .45 ACP Ball. They are probably crimped blanks, the crimp opens whenfired, the case is much longer. My $0.02 Bob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gijive Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 World War II milled ejector - a still from Public Enemies...IMOTom,I think you meant WW II Stamped Two-Piece ejector. At any rate, I agree with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD. Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 Chuck,Yes, stamped. Sorry about that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin601 Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) Blanks, (like Bob said). you can see the crimping. A movie shot. Public enemy???? The movie "The Public Enemy" was a 1931 release, so the Thompson would have been Colts with milled ejectors.Picture looks to good for 1931 Film. BTW, The 1931 movie is said to have used live ammo for a lot of outdoor shots. Looks like a 1950's movie shot, my guess "The FBI Story" with Jimmy Stewart Also, I never heard of "Public Enemies" a new one on my watch list Edited November 13, 2016 by Paladin601 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 Maybe this one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 "public enemies" is definitely recommended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 OP, you might want to use a more descriptive title than "Your opinion" You'll get more responses that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMEDiva Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 Definitely a still from the 2009 movie Public Enemies.Excellent movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCM Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 Yea, Public Enemies. Guys wore black gloves in the scenes as shown. Historically incorrect in many ways, but entertaining. They had asked if my 1933 Buick model 90 was available to rent for the movie to be totally correct, it was not, so they used a 1936 Buick instead. Also they contacted the National Crime & Punishment Museum if they could use the original Dillinger 1933 Essex ( which I had owned) in the movie. Nope.Depp got real interested in the whole Dillinger era and was collecting Dillinger stuff after the movie, then went back to Capt. Jack Sparrow I believe.Don't watch it anymore the wrong history bugs me to much. In some scenes, Deep is a dead on doppelganger to Dillinger. That's pretty cool . OCM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXAS MGC Posted November 13, 2016 Report Share Posted November 13, 2016 Same screen from the movie. Perhaps a different Thompson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD. Posted November 14, 2016 Report Share Posted November 14, 2016 Same actor as in the first post? "Public Enemies" was all around Times Square in 2009. Nothing like being in New York City surrounded by Thompson guns! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCM Posted November 14, 2016 Report Share Posted November 14, 2016 TD-As long as it's not 1933-1934, then it would be a bad thing , especially if it's Nelson holding # 5487. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reconbob Posted November 14, 2016 Report Share Posted November 14, 2016 I think I mentioned before that I made the receivers the prop house used to assemble the blank guns for thismovie. At the time I did not do the Colt engraving but the guy insisted that they had to have it. I asked if therewould be close-ups of the receivers and he said no, but that he wanted the actors to believe the guns wereoriginal so they would treat them with respect. He told me a story of doing a movie with Steven Segal which had a scene where he was supposed to shoota M1911 pistol. So of course they get a modern pistol and fit it with the correct parts so it looks like a M1911.When they shot the scene Segal took one look at the gun and said it's supposed to be a Colt M1911 - what theheck is this? And refused to do it until they had a true Colt. So they had to get an original M1911, ruin it tomake it shoot blanks, and they used that. All that being said one of the color close-ups clearly has M1928A1 engraving. I don't know if that is an originalgun or also a gun assembled as a blank gun. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted November 15, 2016 Report Share Posted November 15, 2016 (edited) I don't let a little historic inaccuracy bother me too much as long as it's done as part of compressing the story into a movie or some other practical consideration. Bonnie and Clyde had several accomplices but in the 1967 movie they just represented them as one guy. It's still a great movie. The movie "Patton" is excellent but every tank in the movie is an 1950s era American tank. Etc. Edited November 15, 2016 by buzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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