What is your favorite hollywood movie..with cannon scenes.??

[opatriot]

Gday friends ....just finished watchen a john wayne movie ...had some interesting cannon senes ..... i think it was set around 1890,s ....cannon was some sorta pack cannon i have never seen before ...wheels came just a little below the hip of the calvary soldiers ...they packed  their artillery around on horseback .throughout the whole movie............what are some of your favorite movies..???????........davey

[Kuntrykouple]

Well in first place would be GETTYSBURG.. although like  most of the rest of you when i watch it there are things you see that ya are well thats not right or  thats not how its done but  as far as theatrics go No. 1 in my book
and  in a close second is The Alamo (2005). when they were loading th cannons inside the fort with bags of nails that was cool.

[Double D]

Davey you can't put up that post without telling us the name of the movie!!!

[Artilleryman]

Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World.  The artillery scenes and sounds are as authentic as you can get in a movie.

[entsminger]

Being a mortar cannon lover I'd have to say that my favorite movie with cannons is the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. As far as I know it is the only movie with a 13 inch seacoast mortar in it. I wish I knew if the cannon was just a paper mache prop or maybe it was Paulson Brothers?? No way that I know of to find out??

  Scott

[Artilleryman]

I believe the movie was made before the Paulsons had theirs.  I don't think the movies would go to the kind of trouble it would take to move one of these monsters even if it were available.

[John N]

I liked the night battle scenes at Fort William Henry in Last of the Mohicans. Lots of smoke, flash, fire and almost realistic recoil.

[CU_Cannon]

I always liked the little cannon on the front of Professor Fate’s car in the Great Race.

[kappullen]

The Last of the Mohicans was in my opinion the best artillery film that I have seen.

Kap

[Blaster]

The Last of the Mohicans was in my opinion the best artillery film that I have seen.

Kap

You guys are right about "The Last of the Mohicans" movie.  AND, the music was really outstanding too!! IMHO :-)
We had to go out and buy the sound track!

[jeeper1]

I'm not much of a movie watcher.
But I do remember in one of the Davey Crockett movies there was a swivel cannon given by D.C. to Mike Fink that was used to fight off some fake indians that ended up getting dropped in the river.
Also, while not technically a cannon, the scenes in "Tremors 4" with the punt gun were interesting.

[Cat Whisperer]

I'm not much of a movie watcher.
But I do remember in one of the Davey Crockett movies there was a swivel cannon given by D.C. to Mike Fink that was used to fight off some fake indians that ended up getting dropped in the river.
.....

That was a loooong time ago!  Brings back memories.

[opatriot]

OOPS.... I made a huge mistake ..!!!  ...some would say blasphemous..!!!....the movie I was referring to DD was titled "MAJOR DUNDEE "  and the lead actor was Charleston Heston whom  by the way I think shoud be our next president , not John Wayne.as i stated earlier..........pretty cool film .........another movie i really like is cutthroat island ...............

[claypipe]

Hmmm, Let's see. There's the Buccaneer with Yul Brynner, when they take out the British rocket battery.

Then there's the bombard scene in Timeline with Billy Connolly.

The scenes in the Patriot with Mel Gibson were well done and very graphic.

CP

[Kuntrykouple]

Well there was also, "The Pride And The Passion" Starred cary grant, sophia loren and frank sinatra, set in spain during the napoleonic wars, it had that huge cannon in it they pulled it up over the  bluff fished it out of the river etc it was fake of course  but still a neat flick

[entsminger]

Man I almost forgot Ernest Rides Again! I know, it's a crazy movie with a non existant cannon but I have always had this dream of finding a big cannon in a cave like Ernest finds in the movie. I love big cannons.

  Scott