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    Carbine Williams

    1952 · Biography · 1h 31m

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  1. 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 while in a North Carolina prison.

  2. Carbine Williams: Directed by Richard Thorpe. With James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid. David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.

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    • Biography, Crime, Drama
    • Richard Thorpe
    • 1952-05
  3. Carbine Williams (1952) -- (Movie Clip) That Was His Last Mistake From his first scene working at his illegal still in eastern North Carolina ca. 1920, we learn that railroad employee "Marsh" Williams (James Stewart) hasn't told wife Maggie (Jean Hagen) how he's really making the extra money, still far from earning his nickname in the title, in the bio-pic Carbine Williams, 1952.

    • Richard Thorpe, Al Jennings
    • James Stewart
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  5. Carbine Williams. Oscar-winner James Stewart stars in the title role as a jailed bootlegge r who invents the famed rifle and gains his freedom, co-starring Oscar-nominee Jean Hagen and James Arness. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Oscar-winner James Stewart stars in the title role as a ...

    • 93 min
  6. Jun 22, 2009 · Carbine Williams, DVD version, tells an interesting story. James Stewart as the country convict turned gun designer is nuanced enough to suggest a major effort to tell something like the truth. Acting is low key and the timing is slow compared to what we have become accustomed. A better than average movie.

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    • Warner Manufacturing
    • $9.99
    • DVD
  7. This is the story of convicted murderer David Marshall Williams who invented the M-1 carbine rifle that was used in WW11. This is James Stewart at his laid back, laconic best.However he injects a darker side to his role as a moonshiner,wrongly or rightly accused of killing a federal Marshall.His innocence or lack of it was neatly sidestepped as ...

  8. Leading the troubled life of a moonshiner, David Marshall Williams (James Stewart) winds up in jail after a raid on his operation results in the death of an investigating officer. While serving ...

    • Biography
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