Viva Maria!

Viva Maria! (1965)

Viva Maria! is a French western comedy was directed by Louis Malle in 1965 about two women named Marie (spanish Maria) who meet and become revolutionaries in the early 20th century. Marie Fitzgerald O'Malley (Brigitte Bardot) is the daughter of an Irish political dissident who has traveled to Latin America with her father to take part in an anarchist political uprising. When her father is killed, Marie, left to her own devices, happens upon a traveling circus, where she strikes up a friendship with one of the performers, french singer also named Marie (Jeanne Moreau). Marie O'Malley joins up with the carnival, and she works up a dance routine with Marie; the act is a smash hit, especially after the Irish Marie accidentally loses part of her costume during a performance. Despite their success, the two Marias find themselves increasingly distressed with the poverty and brutality of the peasants' lives, and they soon decide to use their talents in support of revolutionary leader Flores (George Hamilton). But Florès was insidiously shot from by gun of landowner Ródriguez (Carlos López Moctezuma). On his deathbed, Marie swears he will continue his fight and joins with his friends to a perones uprising.

The following weapons were used in the movie Viva Maria!:

Handguns

Colt Bisley

Bisley model Colt Single Action Army w/ 7.5" barrel - 45 Colt.

Peon pulls the Colt Bisley revolver from a "safe hiding place".

Colt New Service

The Mexican soldiers and also some rebels armed by Colt New Service revolvers.

Colt New Service M1917 - .45 ACP (in moon clips).

Rifles

Winchester Model 1894

The most commonly used weapons of the Mexican Revolution was a Winchester Model 1894 rifle.

Winchester 1894 - .30-30.

Irish Marie gave to know about her shooting skills to one gunslingers of Ródrigueze.

This was Robert's rifle barrel still straight.

French Marie holds a rifle in his hand the first time.

Also the variete performers to join in the revolution.

Both Marie fired to simultaneously - and just in time!

Winchester Model 1892

Winchester 1892 -.32WCF/.38-40/.44-40/.25-20.

The muscular Werther (Poldo Benandi) in the landowner´s armory confiscates a Winchester Model 1892 rifles.

Peon shoots from a newly acquired rifle.

Mauser Rifle Series

The soldiers and also some rebels were armed with Mauser Rifle Series.

Yugoslavian M48 Mauser - 7.92x57mm Mauser

Machine Guns

Hotchkiss M1914 Machine Gun

Hotchkiss M1914 kulomet se stativem

Soldiers deployed against peon-rebels the Hotchkiss M1914 Machine Gun (right).

Maxim M1910

This type of machine gun Maxim rarely occurred in Mexico, but rather was used type MG08.

Maxim MG08 7.92x57mm Mauser on sled mount

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Vickers MK1 Machine Gun

A Vickers MK1 Machine Gun is mocked up as a fictional "Skyton-Babbit Model 1907" machine gun.

Vickers Mk1 Machine Gun

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Landowner Ródriguez boasted a "latest model" of machine gun for urgent its people.

Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley has made by machine gun his lounge debris and then mowed down his guards

Other

F1 hand grenade

F1 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade with Mle1935 fuse.

The rebels had in their shelters also a few F1 hand grenades.

Mills Bomb

Mills Bomb High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade

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Ródriguez tried to prevent the triumph of the revolution by throwing a Mills Bomb at Marie.

Fuse Bomb

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Marie destroy service of howitzer by Fuse Bomb.

Skoda 75mm M.15 Mountain Gun

Soldiers check the valley with the help of a Skoda M.15 Mountain Howitzer.

Mary by accurate shot from a howitzer silenced a machine gun.

Fantasy Weapons

Corner Shot Gun

The circus marksman Rodolfo (Claudio Brook) finds one of his special rifles is badly bent after an explosion - he doesn't throw it out, ...

... but attaches a mirror to the barrel and uses the bent gun to shoot around the corner.

Pigeon bombing of Hand Grenades

In the film appears as a bomber the pigeon, which throw hand grenades at the enemy position.