Some Hollywood helmets

[Ronnie]

I saw the movie "Men In War" over the Memorial Day weekend and noticed that the character played by Robert Ryan was wearing a D Bail in some scenes. You can see in this photo the liner strap. The bail is hard to see but was clear in some close ups.

Ronnie

[AnDuc49]

This is a shot from the Korean film "The Frontline" (2011) showing several of the main characters. Like most Korean war films, most of the characters seem to have Vietnam era shells with the T1 chinstraps. Interestingly enough, Lt. Kim Su-Hyeok and several of the background characters have what appear to be what I'm guessing frogskin covers. Several of them seem to have hand-tied nets as well

 

 

 

 

[krautpot]

Daniel Craig in "Fateless". Looks like a good late war SB helmet.

[BIGREDjaw]

Prop store has an autographed Saving Private Ryan paratrooper helmet up for auction, pretty cool looking!

 

http://propstoreauction.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/78/lot/18458/?url=%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F78%2F%3Fpage%3D4%26items%3D100

[patches]

The Medic PFC "Doc" Walton from Combat, the helmet sure is a prop, almost looks like it's skillfully shaped/moulded paper mache.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[644td]

I just finished watching 2 episodes of combat, what a coincidence. Doc wears different medic helmets in one of the shows tonight the white and the cross were painted over paint chipped areas. I have seen some of his helmets that looked nice.

Marty

[patches]

Here's one for youse.

 

 

Danny Partridge in See Here, Private Partridge, that Oct 1970 episode where he gets drafted by mistake, haven't seen this episode in like 45 years, and don't feel like looking on YT for it, but I seem to recall that this comes from a segment of the episode where Danny dreams about being a hero in combat

[patches]

Wow here's one from the dim and distant past, so long ago that I watched it on TV that I completely forgot about till now, hell even forgot the name of it, believe the last time I seen it was something like 1969 or 70. This in a purely accidental find, Paratrooper Command from 1959.

 

 

 

GIs with Paratrooper helmets and liners complete,seem ok right. Also got the M42 jump suits, I guess they're are ok too.

 

[GITom1944]

Here are some prop helmets from the 1943 movie "Destroyer". The image on the left shows a young Glenn Ford with Edward G. Robinson with slightly misshaped M1 pots. The curvature where the dome fares into the rim is off. On the right is a replica Navy talker helmet.

 

 

Tom

[lost-and-found-history]

"Combat"...complete with parachute silk camo cover!

 

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If you look closely at season one of COMBAT, both Caje and Kirby are wearing what appear to be leftover fixed bales from the movie Battleground. The white painted 3rd Bn/327th PIR insignia are clearly visible under the helmet nets. I believe that it was after season one that all the principal characters received fiberglass helmets because they complained that the real deal was to "heavy" to wear during a full day of shooting. Another piece of trivia: Actor Rick Jason who played Lt Hanley was originally meant to be armed with the M1298 Thompson but complained that it too was too heavy, so he was re-armed with an M1 carbine. The Thompson then went to Vic Morrow who likewise griped about it's weight and carried a plastic and wooden mock-up except for close-ups and live fire.

[GITom1944]

From the 1963 movie "Cry of Battle," an obscure movie about Filipino guerillas. These look like cheesy prop versions of M1917A1 helmets.

 

 

Tom

[patches]

From the 1963 movie "Cry of Battle," an obscure movie about Filipino guerillas. These look like cheesy prop versions of M1917A1 helmets.

 

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Tom

Yeah you can say that again, they look like they're made of thin brittle plastic, like modern plastic picnic plates from the supermarket, the plastic that those New Years Eve hats and caps are made of too .

[patches]

A couple of stills from the 1960 Marine Corps in the Korean War movie, All the Young Men, helmets look legit, though Alan Ladd's looks like a camo cover made from a poncho right, as we're not seeing that center seam.

 

 

 

 

[patches]

 

Arliss Howard and Dorian Harewood in Full Metal Jacket.

 

 

[kammo-man]

Probably.

I swear I have seen some in the costume houses just like that and not paid them much attention.

owen

[patches]

And Rafter Man (Kevyn Major Howard), the film cases in the inner tube band is what were seeing there.

 

[patches]

More Marines.

 

Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn in Red Beach, the 1967 Pacific move, look's like nice Fixed Loops right! Though a big goof in the wear of the Army's M1945 suspenders seen on most of the characters.

 

[patches]

Whoops forgot about this one on the Marines in WWII, also from 1967 First to Fight, Chad Everett, very loosely based on John Basilone (Guadalcanal Vet wins MOH manning a MG by himself, returns home for war bonds, returns to action at his own request). Here during the Guadalcanal sequence and later presumably on Saipan, Guam/Tinian.

 

 

The Canal sequence see a netted helmet, the late war a non foliage slit camo cover.

[patches]

On Marine kick lately

 

This fine still is from the early 60s T.V. show The Lieutenant. Gary Lockwood we're seein on the right as The Lieutenant, 2nd Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, and on the left, Robert Vaughn as his Skipper, Captain Raymond Rambridge.

 

Great job all around with helmets and gear.

 

[patches]

I could never understand the use of the M2 carbine in the WWII war movies of the 50s and 60s even in the 70s, it would seem that everyone of them the M2 was being carried, this is puzzling given the hugh amount of M1 carbines that where certainly avilable, conversely at the time in the 1950s the M2 carbine was a standard issue weapon in the Armed Forces and I find it equally puzzling that Hollywood could get its hands on so many of this weapon that was being used by the Armed Forces, was there such a glut of the M2 carbines ?, In closing do any of you guys ever remember seeing a late 40s through 70s WWII movie, especialy a late 40s -50s movie where the M2 carbine was not used but rather the correct M1 carbine ? Moderators feel free to move this if its deemed better in another forum.

Well Well look what I just found, a bonafide M1 Carbine used in a 60s war movie! , The scene, this being one of the street battles from Is Paris Burning? Every Carbine I spy in this movie is an M2, this includes Free French Troops, Americans Troops, and French Resistance Forces.

 

 

Here we see The late French actor, Jean-Pierre Cassel as Lieutenant Henri Karcher (a real life French Soldier who took the Commandant of Paris, Gen Von Chotitz's surrender), those unfamiliar with the scene, Karcher, I think he was a Marine, you know the Colonial Troops, leads his Platoon in an attack on the German HQ for Paris located in a Hotel, the Hotel Meurice.

 

Curiously in the sequence where he and his people break into the lobby of the hotel after some hard fighting, he's now armed with an M2 Carbine LOL.

[pump 150]

The "First To Fight" post reminded me....

 

Has anyone else noticed that limited numbers of the rare WWII Army test camouflage helmet covers made it into the movie prop houses post war and can be seen in a few features. Here from First To Fight

 

 

[pump 150]

...and from 1963's "PT-109"

 

 

[Ronnie]

Wow that is cool. I never noticed that.

Ronnie

[sgtdorango]

Yeah me neither...awesome....mike

[patches]

Good eye and good additions pump.