Blunders on The Mountain Men

1980's The Mountain Men with Charlton Heston....

Someone forgot to tell these 3 ( possibly 4 ) modern day folks, to stay out of the shot!!

This is where medicine wolf comes riding into rendezvous, showing off and runs into all the poles and gets knocked off his horse.

Jonathan there were so many bystanders it became a major issue. I was in the scene with the run made with a burning blanket in the background (bystanders would get in the way when trying to make that run !@#$%^&).

The set folks would ask these fools to stay behind the rope barrier (they didn't listen). In the half dozen Hollywood movies that I was in this was always a problem.

The local historical society movies (they were always 'low key') not advertised to the public of the location being filed at. They wouldn't put the location of filming out until after the fact, saved dealing with the public.

Folks don't listen to what they are told ...


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Winter Hawk wrote:OOPS!

In print, I just finished reading Michener's "Alaska", and found several errors such as when he tells of a pilot of a Piper Cub with his passenger in the right hand seat, except that the Cub is tandem seating, i.e. one behind the other....

And early on in Louis L'Amour's "How the West was Won" he has the mountain man hero come upon a couple of other trappers pinned down by a bunch of Indians.  He shoots one Indian, then swings his rifle over to shot a second, and does the same to shoot a third.  Later on he joins up to fight in the Civil War, so he must have been mighty speedy on reloading his muzzleloader.

In several movies the prop folks used breech loaders with a flint lock arrangement on the side to look like a flintlock at a distance. Some of these so-called pros didn't have a clue on what they were doing when handling a weapon ...