Boot goes one step further, saying: “we routinely credit the design of the AK-47 to a man who, though by all accounts decent and talented, didn’t quite deserve the accolades,” further claiming that “Kalashnikov didn’t really design the Kalashnikovs, and was certainly not the patriarch of the family, the AK-47.” Alan Petrov of the Russian defence blog Maxpark suspects the influence of the communist propaganda machine at work: “Avtomat Kalashnikova has precious little to do with Mikhail Timofeyevich himself – he was merely appointed to be its inventor.” Meanwhile, Creegan, a vocal supporter of an independent southern CA, as a slave state, is at odds with Senator Sheldon, supposedly a staunch supporter of a united free CA. However, Sheldon also has plans for an independent southern CA, with himself as kingpin. But first, he wants to relieve Creegan of his monopoly of the water supply for L.A. It takes Randy a while to figure out that it is the supposedly deceased Sheldon, not Creegan, that he must subdue.

Even Capt. Roy Giles, commander of the local army garrison, isn’t above suspicion. After all, he’s from Virginia and has pro-South leanings of his own. Sheldon murders a rival senator, Creegan, and fakes his own death. He kidnaps Lora as well. After she realizes that Callicut is actually a government agent, Lora persuades Chona that she can have Giles for herself if only she'll come to her aid. Sheldon also kills Chona before she can betray him, but he is brought to justice by Callicut, who is kissed by a grateful Lora. Working as an undercover agent, Ransome Callicut travels west by stagecoach. Notorious bandit Vic Sutro tries to rob it, but Callicut captures him and turns over Sutro to an Army captain, Roy Giles, upon arrival in California. It's a shame because there was some good work that went into this film from both the cast and the crew. There are elements of humour, action, romantic scenes. Good location photography and sound. Some good performances from the supporting cast as well.I'm a Randolf Scott fan but I didn't like this one because the plot was too complicated. First of all the movie starts with Randolf in a stagecoach going to California. He is pretending to be a school teacher in the stagecoach but when a bad guy riding in the stagecoach tries to shoot everyone he reveals he's really a sharp shooting bad guy. When they arrive at a small town saloon Randolf hooks up with two bad guys & they talk about making some money illegally & he tells them to call him by a different name because he's pretending to be a schoolteacher. Then you find out he's not a bad guy or a school teacher he's really an undercover Marshall with the army or something I don't know. There were so many bad guys pretending to be good guys and good guys who were really bad guys and to make it even further complicated good ladies who were secretly involved with bad guys that I couldn't figure out who was what & what was going on. I didn't understand what everyone was trying to do. All I know is Randolf was pretending to be a school teacher who was pretending to be a bad guy who was actually an undercover army marshall who is in love with a Spanish Salon girl who pretends to be interested in him but she's really in cohoots with some bad guys. Randolf is also in love with a lady who wants to be a school teacher but she is involved with another army marshall who tries to arrest Randolf but Randolf shows him papers that say he is undercover army marshall too just like he is & so they become friends which is awkward because they both love the same girl until she tells the guy it's not working out & kisses Randolf. I can't recommend this one. Watch another one. While earlier historians have covered aspects of the CTCA, Rogers has shown that it was part of a broader morale-building machine that had its own logic. The CTCA was established in April 1917 to get soldiers’ sexual behaviours under control as they trained for combat. The Military Morale Section (MMS), which became the Morale Branch at the end of the war,was founded a year later as American Expeditionary Forces were being deployed to Europe. In contrast to most reviewers, I found this one of the most interesting Randolph Scott westerns I have seen. However, it could have used a better descriptive title. For a start, "The man behind the masquerade" would apply to several of the main characters, including Randy. I had to resume this film from the beginning at the fifty minute mark because I was getting so confused with the plot strands. There seemed so many! Who were the good guys, who were the bad guys all that kind of thing because it was so confusing. To me anyway! It's a good job the film had only a modest running time to allow this to be practicable.

The Man Behind the Gun" is another of a series of 80 minute little westerns churned out by Randolph Scott during the 1950s. As with most of these films, there's plenty of action and a stellar supporting cast. Bit worrying. I sat down to watch this film and it took a while for me to realise I'd seen it, and less than two years ago. This time I did persevere and watched it all the way through, and still wasn't impressed. It's a bit like a stew into which everything has been thrown, with an unappetising result.

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