Carbine Williams

Carbine Williams

6.6IMDb Score
Released:1952-05-01
Duration:92 min
Director:Richard Thorpe
Actors:James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid, Paul Stewart
Production:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Overview:

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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