Tottenham Sharpshooters Aka Pub Guns (1962)

Tottenham, London. High angle L/S of the F.A. cup final in 1961. Medium panning shot of “the fabulous Spurs in action“ against Leicester City - Bobby Smith scoring their winning goal. M/S of a sign outside the White Hart Lane football ground reading, ’Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’. M/S of a pub sign, ’The White Hart’ - a nearby pub “where marksmen of a different sort are highly regarded“. Interior. M/S of a group of football players sitting at the bar: (left to right) Mel Hopkins, John Hollowbread, John White, Peter Baker and Cliff Jones. The landlord, Bob Halbreak, enters and hands round various examples from his personal collection of twenty guns for the footballers to admire. C/U of a red leather box containing a Remington 44-40 pistol being opened. The gun, a relic of the American Civil War (like most of Bob’s collection), is passed to a footballer to examine. C/U of Bob. C/U of his hands holding a Frontier Navy Colt, “the fastest single-action colt ever made“. M/S of the footballers ta