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Just this evening watched a 2013 production of "Savannah", a movie about the life of Ward Allen, the incorrigible market hunter from Savannah, GA and his sidekick Christmas Moultrie. Christmas was the last child born into slavery on a particular plantation at Savannah, in 1863. Allen was born in Savannah, too, but under much different circumstances. He was educated abroad, spoke two foreign languages, but returned to the river to become a market hunter for the rest of his days. Allen and Moultrie were bosom buddies as long as Allen lived. Some good courtroom scenes of Allen defending himself against the "onerous" game laws of the day.

Beautiful scenery of duck hunting on the river at Savannah the way it was in the 1910's-1920s, and lots of scenes with double guns. Mention made of Greeners, among others. The shooting scenes are not as real as could be, blanks don't recoil, but that can be overlooked.

PG-13, very clean, you can watch it with your whole family without fear of embarrassment. Based on the lives of actual people who lived in that period. Good way to spend 1 hr. 49 minutes, IMO, Roger Ebert notwithstanding. Available on Netflix.

SRH

"The Shooting Party" is also pretty good. Sort of like "Downton Abbey" but with a lot more guns. James Mason's last movie.

Wouldn't recommend it for accuracy, good story line or anything else other than to fill some time, however;

The league of Extraordinary Gentlemen has a fun scene with allan quatermain using his double rifle "Matilda"



An assassin sent to kill Alan is making a run for it, Alan asks the barkeep for matilda, who passes Alan a double rifle. Alan gets to the door of the club and draws a bead on the assassin, he then lowers the rifle and the guy next to him says something like he thought it was too far, Alan proceeds to calmly put on his glasses aim and fire at the guy now a couple hundred yards away, wounding him so they can question him, claiming he wasn't aiming to kill.

Don't know if its a recommendation as i say its not realistic such is the nature of an action film, the movie is not even that great, but its a fun gun scene.

The shooting party, and also gosford park both have some shooting in. Ken loach's The Game keeper is good and about the life of a keeper in the 60- 70's? not a lot of shooting but might be of interest.

Here's a good read on "Savannah", from the Sporting Classics Daily, by Pinckney.

http://sportingclassicsdaily.com/issue/2015-1/article/horizons-the-legend-of-ward-allen

SRH

For those carpetbaggers, aka, Yankees, snowbirding to and fro Florida via I-95, at GA 21, you will cross the Christmas Moultrie Interchange as designated by the legislature. It's a rock throw from the site of Mulberry Grove Plantation where Christmas was born. Mulberry Grove was granted by the Continental Congress to Nathaniel Greene for his service in the Revolution. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin while living at Mulberry Grove as a teacher. Just upriver was the plantation congressionaly granted to "Mad" Anthony Wayne, another Revolutionary war hero.

I don't remember what guns were used in it but Bugle Ann was a good hunting movie:
Jim

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028471/?ref_=ttpl_ql

Fun to identify guns used in movies, and we've had some threads about the lack of historical accuracy in the past.

John Wayne's "Greener" in "Big Jake" was an American Gun Co./Crescent (NOT American Arms)





He may have used a Parker in the "McLintock" scene when he was hunting pheasants with Stefanie Powers along; birds unlikely to have made it to West Texas in the movie's time setting.

Clint Eastwood as William Munny in "Unforgiven" used a 10g Belgian sidelever, most certainly not a Wesley Richards.

"Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a [censored]! You just shot an unarmed man!" "Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend."

Deliverance.....double gun, southern style hunting, and hospitality....

'mon down and see for yourself. Dah-dah-done-done.

My Vote:
King Solomon's Mines, 1950 version...lots to see and still an interesting story.