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I was watching the movie tonight and got to wondering if anyone might know what double he was shooting. The barrels look like they are at least 40+ inches. Its a hammer back lock action, of course it could just be a movie prop makeup.

LXG is a personal blast from the past for me.

They were all real guns, the double rifle is a H&H that the armament division of Fox studios (Bapty) bought direct out of the gun trade, I remember they paid about �15k at the time for it.

The Winchester lever actions rifles used by Agent Sawyer and Alain Quartermain were actually Uberti copies bought in from Italy in the white. One rifle was destroyed in the film and the other remains today in Bapty's museum.

I finished the rifles off with the elaborate stocks and fore-arms and the engraving was done by Shaun Banks (of Westley Richards fame). I completed these rifles back in 2002.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2546633728/tt0311429

Regards
J-PD

LXG was an interesting premise, great cast. Wish the movie had lived up to it.

Agree. The only screen portrayal of Allan Quatermain that really worked was Stewart Granger and it was not one of Deborah Kerr's best efforts. There are some great old rifles (mausers) in that version as well - though nothing as exotic as your Uberti's J-PS! Granger was an outdoorsman and hunted Africa and India several times and one of his doubles was a Westley Richards Droplock in .577.

I did love Connery's vest in that movie and found a guy in Australia who made a close copy.

BARON'S Hats in Hollywood will make you a beautiful custom copy of the magnificent hat Sean Connery wears on the poster. He also wears it at the beginning of the movie for about 23 seconds (or less!), never to be donned again.

There is a great reference site, The Internet Movie Firearms Database.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen

The are some times wrong, but not often.

Pete

Granger served in the Black Watch in WWII. Missed a lot of the action because he was in OCS at the time. Underrated actor, IMO. Does a great job as a buffalo hunter in "The Last Hunt" with Robert Taylor. And in "Scaramouche", his 7 to 8 minute duel with Mel Ferrer in a theater, without all the special effects we see today, is a real classic.

LOL thought Baron's was my secret. Had them make me in beaver Redford's from Out of Africa - but with a leather band. Great folks with which to do business.

LXG was what's known as a "Steam Punk" movie, which is not pejorative. I thought it was good, but it never was very popular.

I liked LXG quite a bit, not enough to buy a $2100 hat that almost no one would recognize, but quite a bit.

I heard that Sean Connery turned down Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, either of which would have made him tens of millions of dollars so he figured he would do a sci-fi movie. He just picked the wrong one.
CHAZ