Just watched "The Great War" on Amazon. Platoon of "Buffalo Soldiers" get trapped behind German lines 2 days before the end of the war. Rescue effort mounted, usual race-related issues, etc. Fair to middlin' movie.

The glitch was the rifles. I assume Springfield '03s. In many scenes, they have left-handed bolts!

I'm assuming the negatives got flopped somehow because in some scenes EVERY rifle was left-handed. Also noticed in several shots of the same scene the strap on a soldiers musette bag swapped sides at least twice.

How do they not catch this stuff? Editors too ignorant of arms to know better?

I haven't seen the film, but almost certainly it was intentional. Did you have scenes of US soldiers firing at Germans, and vice-versa? If so, the reversal was probably done so that you didn't have the opposing forces both pointing screen left or screen right. Just a guess.

Yes, the scene swapped between opposing sides. Interesting explanation. I'll have to watch for that in the future.