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Carbine Williams
Carbine Williams is a 1952 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring James Stewart, Jean Hagen and Wendell Corey. The film follows the life of its namesake, David Marshall Williams, who invented the operating principle for the M1 carbine gun while in a North Carolina prison. The carbine was used extensively by the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Originally filmed in black-and-white, the film has also been colorized.
David Marshall "Marsh" Williams of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company company takes leave to tend to family matters. His embittered young son David has been teased in school and Marsh decides that the time has come to inform his son about his past. He takes David to a prison and leaves him with his friend Capt. H. T. Peoples, who tells David that Marsh had served time there for murder and describes the circumstances in a series of flashbacks.
Marsh is a young man who leaves the Navy after several hitches and returns home. His strict father and the family of his girlfriend Maggie believe Marsh to be irresponsible. Marsh marries Maggie and takes a laborious job with a railroad, where he is introduced to the illegal practice of distilling corn whiskey during the era of Prohibition. Marsh hides his new source of income from Maggie but she learns the truth when he is badly burned after a still explodes. She threatens to leave him if he will not quit the business. He promises to stop distilling moonshine but continues to expand the operation. When federal agents raid his operation, Marsh opens fire and escapes into the woods. Maggie finds Marsh and informs him that a federal agent had been killed in the gunfight. She convinces him to surrender and pledges that she will stand by him.
Marsh stands trial but the jury is deadlocked. He pleads guilty to second-degree murder to avoid a retrial and the possibility of a death sentence. The judge sentences him to 30 years in prison at hard labor. Maggie promises to wait for him.
In prison, a guard finds a knife on Marsh and he is ordered to work on a chain gang. The work is excruciating and the guards abuse the prisoners. The men are transferred to a different prison, where Marsh meets Peoples, the warden. Marsh refuses to communicate with his family. Peoples orders him to solitary confinement for insolence and Marsh remains there for 30 days, much longer than any man had previously endured.
Peoples grants Marsh 24 hours of leave and Marsh spends the day with Maggie. After returning, Marsh tells Peoples of his love of guns and shares his innovative design for an automatic rifle with a floating chamber. Marsh is allowed to work on his gun in the prison shop, but two other inmates steal it for a failed escape attempt. Marsh denies any complicity with the escape attempt and Peoples allows him to continue developing his concept. Peoples writes to Maggie to inform her of Marsh's progress with both the invention and his character.
Newspaper accounts report how Peoples has allowed an inmate to serve his time as a gunsmith, and the angry state prison commissioners hold a hearing. Peoples argues that he believes in Marsh's invention and vouches for him, offering to serve the remaining 22 years of Marsh's sentence himself if Marsh uses the gun to escape from prison. Marsh is allowed to demonstrate the carbine, which is an overwhelming success. A Winchester representative offers Marsh a job, and he is soon pardoned by the governor.
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Carbine Williams
Carbine Williams is a 1952 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring James Stewart, Jean Hagen and Wendell Corey. The film follows the life of its namesake, David Marshall Williams, who invented the operating principle for the M1 carbine gun while in a North Carolina prison. The carbine was used extensively by the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
Originally filmed in black-and-white, the film has also been colorized.
David Marshall "Marsh" Williams of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company company takes leave to tend to family matters. His embittered young son David has been teased in school and Marsh decides that the time has come to inform his son about his past. He takes David to a prison and leaves him with his friend Capt. H. T. Peoples, who tells David that Marsh had served time there for murder and describes the circumstances in a series of flashbacks.
Marsh is a young man who leaves the Navy after several hitches and returns home. His strict father and the family of his girlfriend Maggie believe Marsh to be irresponsible. Marsh marries Maggie and takes a laborious job with a railroad, where he is introduced to the illegal practice of distilling corn whiskey during the era of Prohibition. Marsh hides his new source of income from Maggie but she learns the truth when he is badly burned after a still explodes. She threatens to leave him if he will not quit the business. He promises to stop distilling moonshine but continues to expand the operation. When federal agents raid his operation, Marsh opens fire and escapes into the woods. Maggie finds Marsh and informs him that a federal agent had been killed in the gunfight. She convinces him to surrender and pledges that she will stand by him.
Marsh stands trial but the jury is deadlocked. He pleads guilty to second-degree murder to avoid a retrial and the possibility of a death sentence. The judge sentences him to 30 years in prison at hard labor. Maggie promises to wait for him.
In prison, a guard finds a knife on Marsh and he is ordered to work on a chain gang. The work is excruciating and the guards abuse the prisoners. The men are transferred to a different prison, where Marsh meets Peoples, the warden. Marsh refuses to communicate with his family. Peoples orders him to solitary confinement for insolence and Marsh remains there for 30 days, much longer than any man had previously endured.
Peoples grants Marsh 24 hours of leave and Marsh spends the day with Maggie. After returning, Marsh tells Peoples of his love of guns and shares his innovative design for an automatic rifle with a floating chamber. Marsh is allowed to work on his gun in the prison shop, but two other inmates steal it for a failed escape attempt. Marsh denies any complicity with the escape attempt and Peoples allows him to continue developing his concept. Peoples writes to Maggie to inform her of Marsh's progress with both the invention and his character.
Newspaper accounts report how Peoples has allowed an inmate to serve his time as a gunsmith, and the angry state prison commissioners hold a hearing. Peoples argues that he believes in Marsh's invention and vouches for him, offering to serve the remaining 22 years of Marsh's sentence himself if Marsh uses the gun to escape from prison. Marsh is allowed to demonstrate the carbine, which is an overwhelming success. A Winchester representative offers Marsh a job, and he is soon pardoned by the governor.