The Monocle Laughs (Le Monocle rit jaune)The Monocle Laughs (Le Monocle rit jaune) - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video GamesThe Monocle Laughs (Le Monocle rit jaune)
The Monocle Laughs (Le Monocle rit jaune) is a 1964 French B&W adventure comedy directed by Georges Lautner and starring Paul Meurisse. The French secret agent Théobald Dromard alias "The Monocle" (Meurisse) is tasked to investigate attacks on the nuclear research personnel and facilities around the world. The investigation leads Dromard to an ostensibly pacifist cult with the bases in Hong Kong and Macau.
The following weapons were used in the film The Monocle Laughs (Le Monocle rit jaune): Error creating thumbnail: File missingWARNING! THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS!
When Frédéric de La Pérouse (Olivier Despax) accompanies Dromard to Macau, he is armed with a compact pistol. The gun turns out to be a member of the vast family of Ruby pistols. Victoria Model 1911, a version of Ruby with relatively short grip, matches the screen gun good enough.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingDuring the shootout in the opium den in Hong Kong, a cultist in center holds a pistol that seems to be some kind of M1911.
Poussin (Robert Dalban) carries an M1A1 Thompson, fitted with Cutts compensator, in several scenes in Hong Kong. He also hands the submachine gun to Elie Mayerfitsky (Marcel Dalio). During the shootout in Macau, one of the cultists is armed with a Thompson submachine gun with Cutts compensator, very likely the same prop reused.
One of the cultists in Macau is armed with a double barreled shotgun. Judging by the way he holds the weapon, it is probably equipped with a pistol grip. Possibly this is an example of .410 guns with removable buttstock, once popular in Britain for rabbit and bird hunting, especially among the poachers.
Footage of US Navy aircraft carrier CV-40 Tarawa is used in the film. In reality Tarawa was decommissioned in 1960, and she served with the Atlantic Fleet for the most of her active career, never visited Hong Kong since 1948.
