Salvatore Giuliano

Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

Salvatore Giuliano is an Italian made movie directed by Francesco Rosi, released in 1962. It narrates the story of the Sicilian outlaw Salvatore "Turiddo" Giuliano ("Turiddo" is the "Salvatore"'s Sicilian diminutive), and is fight from the end of World War Two up to his death in 1950. The film has received different critics, both positive and negative, depicting quite correctly historical events and local traditions, but otherwise depicting Sicily as a primitive land. Pictures about this movie are very rare to find.

The following weapons are featured in the film Salvatore Giuliano:

Thompson Submachine Gun

Several versions of Thompson are used in this movie. An M1 Thompson is the gun mainly used by Giuliano's second-in-command Gaspare Pisciotta troughout the movie. Several others Guiliano's bandits use Thompson M1 and M1928 fitted mainly with box magazines. A Thompson M1 is also used during the ambush at the Carabinieri's station

the Tommy is visible below Pisciotta's arm

Pisciotta's tommy is on the right, another one is seen in the background

STEN

A Sten MKII is seen slung over the back of one bandit guarding Giuliano's place when a Senator of the EVIS (Ente Volontario Indipendenza della Sicilia, Sicily's Independentist Voluntary Entity) went to discuss with Turiddo. The other one is depicted in the photo below

The fourth man from right in grey coat has a STEN

MP40

The MP40 is the second most used submachine gun in the movie. Used only by Giuliano's men. Giuliano used one during the ambush at the pagliaio to a patrol of Carabinieri.

Third man from right (one of Giuliano's lieutenant) holds an MP40

MAB 38

The two versions of the Beretta Model 38 (also known as the MAB or Moschetto Automatico Beretta) are seen in the movie. The MAB 38A is used by the Italian Army and the Carabinieri in uniform and in plain clothes. The MAB 38/42 is used by the bandits of Giuliano and by Giuliano himself in several occasions. A MAB 38/42 is found near his dead body.

Giuliano (second man from right, with the long, bright coat) has a MAB 38/42 slung on his back

A carabiniere takes cover aiming his MAB as another carabiniere is wounded by Pisciotta in Montelepre

The MAB 38/42 lying down next to Giuliano's corpse

Mannlicher-Carcano M1891 Cavalry

The Cavalry musket (musket is used in Italy to designate a very short carbine) model of the old bolt action Italian infantry rifle Carcano M1891 is used by some of the Army soldiers and mainly by the Carabinieri. In a scene a Cavalry is given to a Sicilian shepard hired by Giuliano for the Portella della Ginestra's massacre

Carabinieri arresting all adult males in Montelepre armed with Carcano cavalry muskets

Carabinieri holding their short carbines askew to keep the Montelepre's women away from the arrested men

One of Turiddo's men teaching the young sheperd how to use a Carcano M1891 cavalry musket

Beretta M1934

The Beretta M1934 was the standard sidearm for Italian forces. It was used by Army officers and all the Carabinieri.

Colt M1911

An M1911A1 is seen lying next to Giuliano's dead body at the beginning of the movie

It is storically uncorrect, because Giuliano's signature handgun was a FN-Browning HP

Molotov

A couple of molotov are used by a bandit during the pagliaio ambush

Fiat-Revelli Model 1914/35

This machine gun is an air-cooled, belt-fed heavy machine gun used during WWII by the Italian Armed Forces. The Giuliano's bandits managed to take one somehow, and used it in various occasions

Two bandits manning the Fiat 14/35 during the ambush to the Army