I could watch old school gun fights for hours and hours.

A real life version of this. In the late 1970's I was an archaeology student and one of my professors was the famous (at least for an archaeologist) Jim Sackett who did the groundbreaking excavations at Kaskaskia outside St. Louis and other sites in the area. He gained his fame through National Geographic. One day he was telling us the nitty gritty of running a dig and he mentioned an experience he had in a small rural town he was digging a site near. One morning he'd gone into town to pick up some supplies at the general store. A car with four bad men from St. Louis came into town shortly afterwards. They intended to rob the small bank which handled most of the money for farmers and small businesses in the very rural area. It was payroll and government checks day. Sackett ran his accounts for the dig through them too. Because the bank was so small and local it wasn't under the Federal Reserve so the deposits weren't insured. That meant that if the money was stolen it would be gone for good. The bank and depositors woukd have been ruined along with most of the area. Only local cops would be involved because the FBI and state investigators only worked on federally insured banks. There were probably less than a dozen cops in the whole county, mostly patrol officers. A major disaster. Anyway, some of the locals noticed the strangers going into the bank and others saw the guns and the robbery through the bank windows. Word spread really quickly and to everybody nearby. Guns appeared from everywhere. Those who didn't have them handy were given the stock of the gun display in the store along with ammunition. Being that part of the country almost every male was a military veteran and even young boys knew how to shoot. Within minutes the town was an armed camp with a constant flow of local reinforcements. He was told to either get a gun or take cover. He took cover. He said when the robbers exited the bank carrying large bags, expecting no trouble from a bunch of hicks, they made to their car without noticing what was going on. They started driving down the street. Nobody said anything like "Stop! Thief!" Then the shooting began. Within seconds the car was full of holes and they were all dead. The local police turned up and wrote a report. The money was returned to the bank, the borrowed guns returned to the store, the riddled car hauled off to the county sherrif's office and the dead men to the local funeral parlor. Then by the afternoon everything went back to normal. He said the St. Louis media didn't even pick up that anything had happened in the rural area. It was made clear to him that the locals would appreciate it if he didn't discuss it either. Since he was known in the area and still did work there at the time he told us the story he didn't. He asked us to keep it between ourselves too. That's why, though this happened probably about fifty years ago, I'm not giving the exact location. He made sure that any really hungry archaeology students never stole any chickens in that area for dinner. And that's what can happen to real robbers who pull something like this in the wrong town.

You know all that violence could’ve been avoided if people just sat down and had a conversation.

This particular scene was filmed in Hunter, Oklahoma. I live about 2 blocks away. The building is the old bank building which was closed 20 or so years ago and which eventually collapsed due to a leaky roof and a main support beam giving way.

Amazing that the shooters in cover and with height advantage, and many of them good 'old boy hunters since they were kids, could not take out a bunch of guys with no cover.

the real incident in Mason City, Iowa was not nearly so dramatic. No one killed, or even significantly wounded. There were many shots fired though!

All these guys got jobs as Imperial Storm Troopers after this shootout.

It's interesting how dramatized this scene is in comparison to the real life events.

One thing you have to notice about the late 1920's and early 1930's was a time of big technology changes in terms of firearms. Thompson submachine guns in .45 ACP, BAR's or Browning Automatic Weapons in .30-06 caliber and other automatic weapons were developed in the last years of the First World War during 1917/18. The American BAR was used only in small numbers in the First World War. However, General Pershing did have pump shotguns with brass shotgun shells filled with buckshot for every 12 soldiers in a squad. You will notice lots of pump shotguns used here in the movie. The automatic firearms, especially the submachine guns gave a good account of themselves when the ranges were 50 meters or less. The BAR was a bulky heavy Godawful weapon to carry at over 18 lbs and fully loaded over 20 lbs. But the BAR had a good range with .30-06 out to a 1,000 metersbut effective out to 400meters. Most of the time these BAR's were fired in short bursts after initial contact was made because the barrel heated up so much after continuous firing leading to many issues. So most American soldiers fired their BAR's in short bursts or on semiautomatic when possible. You can see the disadvantages of a bolt action rifle against fully automatic weapons at close range. It is best to have the men armed bolt action rifle in an overwatch position firing aimed shots from behind cover while the submachine guns and shotguns due the close range work. Every US Army squad had two BAR's in them in WW2 with three BAR's per squad whenever circumstances allowed. I am dubious about the value of semiautomatic pistols, except at very close range of about ten meters or five meters or less. You can't hit anything with a semiautomatic pistol during a firefight. The US Army did a study of German medical records during the First World War. It showed almost NO German soldiers were killed in combat from American pistols or revolvers in combat operations. The US Army got smart in developing the M1 Carbine weighing 5.5 lbs in semiautomatic in a .30 caliber pistol round I think was 7.62x33mm in length with a 110 grain bullet. The US Army used six million of these M1 Carbines extensively in WW2 and Korea for rear area service soldiers who had to carry heavy equipment as part of their primary job. But many of these M1 Carbines were used in frontline combat anyway on a large scale basis. The M1 Carbine was a good accurate weapon out to about 125 to 150 meters with 200 meters the utmost practical range but ideally the M1 Carbine excelled at hitting targets at 50 to 100 meters. The four point contact of the 18 inch barrel M1 Carbine made it much more accurate and much easier for conscripts to learn to shoot with minimal training time. Handguns require enormous amounts of time for training if a shooter is going to hit a moving target at 20 meters shooting back at him. The Army just doesn't have time to teach this level of handgun proficiency during wartime mobilization. So the movie I think like most movies sort of gives a false impression of semiautomatic handguns. Again at five meters semiautomatic handguns are good firearms to stop a target but at 15 meters or more it gets nearly impossible to hit anything with them in a firefight. Never bring just a handgun to a long gun fight. The handgun is only a backup to your long gun, period.

0:37. A BAR is never junk, even if it jams.

Rest in Peace Harry Dean Stanton

Those BARs sound so good . what a weapon.

Those WWI BARs are an aesthetic. Such a beauty.

I love Richard Dreyfuss in this. "WOOOOO! Come on! You can't touch me!"

John Milius directed this movie. He's a screenwriter and director with a flair for depicting period correct small arms, usually in a dramatic way. The one fowl-up in this movie is where Michelle Phillips switches from a Thompson to a BAR practically in mid burst.

The BAR should be added in Mafia: Definitive Edition

Laughably entertaining but not even close to reality. I can't help but watch even though it is pure slop. It's just like watching an old western, Johnny is a great shot.

Nyeah, see here copper, you'll never take me alive! , Nyeah!

The gang raised the BAR 😳😳😁😁

''Oh Lord have mercy, What we done got into here''

Warren Oat's. Great Dillinger Look-Alike!

'I knew they'd make a mistake' *Kills like 12 cops* Yeah... mistake...

wish sam peckinpah would have directed this,with the gorch brothers,oates and johnson from the wild bunch 1969.

The BAR magazine change was always a pain, apparently.

The black guy, real name, Herbert Youngblood, was killed in my home town , Port Huron Mi. In a shoot out with the Police.

same bank in Bonnie and Clyde

Imagine your walking down the street and the cops walk up and ask “hey want to stop some bank robbers with automatic weapons” and you agree.

I wouldn't mind having one of those Thompsons.

It’s like watching a modern western shootout

love the sound of those BAR's

Great scene. No basis in reality except there was a shoot out and there was a lot of shots fired

Public Enemies stuck to reality more but this is much better. This is a meat and potatoes movie for the hairy-chested action movie fan. The action and dialogue in this masterpiece stares you in the face and says, "laugh, I dare you."

The browning automatic rifle or BAR saw alot of action in ww2

I guess the gun sights were just a suggestion.

¡Great movies never get old!

Even tho this movie was campy as hell. I loved it.

the actually use an M1918 not an A2...amazing cinematigraphy

i live in mason city iowa and this is nothing like the way it really happend either are the building or land scape

My favourite actor Warren Oates=badass

This reminded me a lot of Heat.

This came up on my feed I've not seen the picture for years I loved movie's like this when I was I kid bonnie and Clyde vanishing point don't know if anyone remmbers two lane blacktop or point blank with Mr Lee Marvin or even the last detail all great

They need to make a game about this

So why is it that one someone gets shot in a movie they get thrown back??.. unless they are up on a roof; they always fall forward and off the roof. Funk dat!

Boy times have sure changed. Black got it last . The black guy always first to go in horror movie

my guess some of these guys where former military dillinger did serve in the us army before his bank robbing days.

Hollywood version of events nothing like the reality..

Sweet jeezus, can't anyone shoot in that town?

Guy at end gets shot.... Intentionally jumps off roof lol

There was a book written in the 1970's by a getaway driver hired out for various robberies. He claimed that leaving someone armed by the car kept the Boy Scouts from letting the air out as their good deed for the day. but all rued the day Detroit stopped putting running boards on the sides of cars. It was a habit to line the 'boards with hostages to keep the cops from shooting at them as they fled. In rural areas, the police department was small enough that Ma Barker rigged her getaway cars to drop tacks and sharp metal--they blew out tires on one or two cars and they were in the clear. Farmers were losing their livelihoods to the banks during the Great Depression, so they at first gave sanctuary to the robbers. But once they figured out the more pyschotic robbers weren't Robin Hoods, they began changing their opinion--especially if a gang went after a Savings and Loan too small to fall under FDIC insurance coverage.

Pretty good shooting for people who don't use gun sights.

This is NOT what actually happened! Very Disappointed!

A great movie! 👍

So is it just me or do half the gunshots not even really sink up with the gun

accurate?...nope, but entertaining as hell!!!

So anyway....I started blasting

Town folks: Leave our insurance and cash alone! >:( Gangsters: Leave it alone! Never!! >8)

0:40 what's with the Hanna--Barbara sound effects?

What a decent solid film any other films like this from this time period big Client Eastwood fan ! too !

Is this the same robbery depicted in Public Enemies where Nelson is killed and Dillinger is shot

Oates was GREAT as Dillinger

I don't know if that sign was supposed to break off the building like that.

Any gangsters going for robbery until townfolks and police tries to stop them. (Public fights).

Lot of people dont know what cover is.

to a german it sounds like donald duck and daisy duck are having fun in the bedroom

Gone are the good ol' days when bank robbers like the James Gang and the Younger Brothers carried nothing but six-guns and 1 or 2 scatterguns.

The thing that's bothered me the most is how the guys with the rifles were literally the only on the ground.

Dillinger, i m sure shoot outs like this really happened. Dillinger loved crime and action.

The working mans answer to recession - robs banks coz the banksters - they robbed you first.....

I live in mason!

gunfights in company of heroes games in a nutshell

When the boog happens and the fudds and feds just have outdated hunting rifles.

How many criminals does it take to rob a bank? Sheesh!

You can tell this was a John Milius movie.

This was good

These okies with bolt actions trying to take on Bank Robbers with BARs and Thompsons.....

The rhythm of the beginning cocking of guns was ruined at 0:16 lol

Browning Automatic Rifles.

They never got him unless his eyes changed colour.

BAR's had finicky mags. 30-06 armor piercing rounds would doo'ya a job aw'right!

Best thing in gunfight, stand in the open, dohhh

It's like red dead redemption

Nice clip of BAR

Is that Robert de Niro at 1:22 ?

this movie seems like was filming in Brazil

Look at me!

стрелять с дробаша с крыши на таком расстоянии так себе идея

How many deputies and police officers were killed in this scene. I'm no historian but, I'm pretty sure it didn't go down like this.

A roubber is a roubber.

1:46 I hope that warn't a real Thompson.

They should carry a bazooka to rob a bank!

Why would you stand up behind a wall so that you could be hit more easily?

Today, it would be AR15 vs. AR15

Awesome old fashioned gangsters their is nothing like it anymore old tommy guns,machine guns,old guns,old cars,old fashioned suits my kind of movie i should buy this DVD where is the fastest way to purchase it ?

Ooh Lawd have mercy 😂😂

Didn't know he rob Mason city was there anything to take

Does anybody in this movie ever reload

Did he say Bonnie and Clyde was a joke ?

out of the two billion rounds fired not a single one hit anybody's head

Wait a minute Cowboys are using Semi Automatic pistols in 1:23 and 1:24?? Just asking

No Public Enemies 2009 is much better