Movie: Siege of Jadotville: Lot's of vintage mil weaponry on display

JT-AR-MG42 said:
Hopefully the photo shown isn't the add for the movie.
Ouch!, just checked you-tube and saw the netflix trailer photo too.

The guy is clearing carrying a Type 2 FAL in 1961?
But hey, that's Hollywood for you.

JT
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I watched an old cowboy movie the other night, mostly about the army’s dealings with the Indian leader Cochise.

Text at the beginning telling you it was set in 1851. However, the soldiers were carrying Winchester Yellow Boys, (1866), and the Indians were carrying Winchester 94’s.

No attempt to hide this, as at one point they hold up and examine a Yellow Boy. Why let facts get in the way of a story plot when single shot muzzle loaders would be so much less exciting? After all, according to Hollywood, everyone carried a lever action in the west, regardless of time period.
 
Robert said:
Those are SLRs, not FALs 😉

But the one in the photo might actually be an FAL...it's got a Belgian flash hider...
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The Irish Army issued FALs.

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As much as I enjoy this movie there is one question that needs to be answered. After the first couple of merc attacks on the Irish lads a portly, generally unlikeable, German in a cliché white suite shows up to direct the merc attacks. Quinlan, the Irish commander, notices him and tasks Bill (Sniper) Ready to take the iron sighted Bren (MkII) to the roof and dispatch him. While we all felt deep satisfaction when Quinlan growls "Take his heart", why do it with the Bren with it's crude sights, firing the same .303 Brit caliber instead of the No.4(T), with its No.32 3.5X telescopic sight? It appears to me to be just a bit of "Hollywoodism".

Any ideas?

Found this site when researching the subject:
https://armourersbench.com/2021/10/03/siege-of-jadotville-the-sniper-bren-is-the-bren-more-accurate/#:~:text=If%20you're%20familiar%20with,range%20shot%E2%80%A6%20with%20a%20Bren.

As an aside, Mark Strong did a superb job playing the shifty, oblivious Conor Cruise O'Brien, NATO liaison.
 
Speedo66 said:
I watched an old cowboy movie the other night, mostly about the army’s dealings with the Indian leader Cochise.

Text at the beginning telling you it was set in 1851. However, the soldiers were carrying Winchester Yellow Boys, (1866), and the Indians were carrying Winchester 94’s.

No attempt to hide this, as at one point they hold up and examine a Yellow Boy. Why let facts get in the way of a story plot when single shot muzzle loaders would be so much less exciting? After all, according to Hollywood, everyone carried a lever action in the west, regardless of time period.
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At least they got "real" firearms to use. I watched one of the Skyfall movies last night and the human villain was brandishing what appeared to be a Colt single action which was most painfully PLASTIC!
 
tark said:
This was a true story and the most amazing thing about the story is this:

The Irish never lost a single man.
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In that four day action, there were, however, 5 wounded.

26 Irish soldiers, along with 206 UN troops and over 10,000 Congolese lost their lives in the subsequent fighting to quash Katangan independence.
 
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Anything in a movie which has a realistic depiction, to me, is considered "icing on the cake".

And if a general scenario basically reflects what happened (even in just half of it) then it certainly puts such a film a "cut above" most historical presentations with which they try to fool the punters/customers.

The fact that it shows FALs and Enfields in action is cool for many of us.
 
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