Look at this poster for The Deerslayer. We saw this a couple of weeks ago at a restaurant in Cooperstown, N.Y. (where James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote The Deerslayer, lived. Duh.)
Take a close look at that figure in the right background. It’s Forrest Tucker (who, years before F-Troop, played action heroes, especially tough Americans in British science fiction of the 1950s. But I digress). He’s holding a freaking cannon and firing it.
This is ludicrous, right? A good way to lose both arms and a midsection at least?
Has anyone seen this film? Does anything like this occur, or is it poster-maker’s hyperbole?
If memory serves, he dies from his injuries, either from the kickback or being shot earlier. The cannon isn’t as large as in the poster, but yes he does carry and fire a cannon.
Now of course I can’t remember if he’s holding it when he fires it or lays in on a dirt mount and fires it…he does carry it though.
Did the film include the scene where Tucker and Milton Berle had a little bet about whose… firearm was larger and Berle’s commanding officer told him to only show enough of his cannon to win?
