Washington County News | 1936-01-09 | Page 8 | Cuns Tested to Protect Actors of "Frisco Kid"

Gl'XS TESTED TO J'llOTECT ACTORS OK "FRISCO KID" Because they were determined to avoid any possibility of accident, acci-dent, executives at Warner Bros, decreed that all ancient firearms uxed in "Frisco Kid" must be examined ex-amined by experts before given to the actors to handle. Dwight Franklin, nationally recognized re-cognized authority on arms and armors, personally inspected every gun picked for use in the picture to make sure that it held no forgotten for-gotten powder charge. Many old guns from his own large collection and others borrowed from local collectors, were used in the film, a tale of .San Francisco in 1854, showing at the Wadawortli Theatre, Thea-tre, Thursday, Friday and Safaris Safar-is -.1 x' The guns were so old as to be unfamiliar weapons in the hands of men not antique arms experts. "It took almost as much courage cour-age to be on the firing end of some of those ;guiis as it did to ge in front of them, when a full charge was fired," said James Cagney, who heads the cast in this story of San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast when the noose of the vigilantes vigil-antes was the only check on robbery, rob-bery, rioting, arson and murder.