Carbine Williams

This film is based on a a non-fictional character, David Marshall Williams, who goes by “Marsh” Marsh is the inventor of the M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in WWII. The story follows the inventor has he builds weapons by hand inside a prison farm.

Year: 1952

Summary

Troubled moonshiner David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he is granted access to a tool shop where he develops the M1 Carbine Rifle, the standard U.S. firearm in WWII.

about

A piece of this substantial backdrop of the prison can be found at the Andrew S. Miller Center for Communication Arts at Asbury University.

Director

Richard Thorpe

Art Director

Cedric Gibbons