Revolver-carrying luddites in fiction

One of my favorite things to see in a movie or book is the trope of the guy who's been around for years, seen-it-all, and chooses to keep carrying a revolver (or other old-fashioned gun) when everyone around him has switched to semiautos (or other modern gun). Just for fun, let's make a definitive list of popular fiction featuring this trope.

I'll start out with Morgan Freeman as the intellectual Detective Somerset who carries a S&W M15 in "Seven":
http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/Seven-S%26W15-3.jpg/600px-Seven-S%26W15-3.jpg

Another on is Togusa from "Ghost in the Shell", who still carries a Mateba revolver in an age of full human cyborg-ification:
http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/9/93/GITSSAC2008M1.jpg/500px-GITSSAC2008M1.jpg

What else can we come up with?

The dark tower by Stephen king

I gotta go with...

The sheriff in "The Walking Dead" - 6" Python


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Andy Sipowists(sp?) NYPD Blue - S&W M10 snubby

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Chuck Norris in season 1 of Walker Texas Ranger.

A Luddite would have been carrying a rock or a club, pretty sure revolvers have a few more mechanical parts.......... :)

How about Harry Callahan? ;)

Chuck Norris in season 1 of Walker Texas Ranger.

Yep, beat me to it!

LD

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/d/d8/Fallen_screencap9.jpg
Donald Sutherland in Fallen. S&W Model 60

Clint Eastwood, bloodwork.

The Rock in the movie Faster. A 454 SRH Alaskan.


http://www.ruger.com/products/superRedhawkAlaskan/images/5301.jpg

Dirk pitt and his bowen. Some other character in fiction packs a webley...can't remember off hand


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Not only carrying a revolver in the age of selfloaders but Hollywood has always had the sidekick carry a longer barreled revolver than the star. Roy Rogers had 4 3/4" SAA while George Hays weilded a 7 1/2" version. Only in the very early westerns did the good guy carry a long barreled revolver.

Deckart in Blade Runner.

Snake Plisken carrying a SCOPED S&W 4" Model 66 in the futuristic "Escape from New York."

Just a little reality check here. After working through the time period as a police officer when most departments made the transition from revolvers to semi-autos, AND having been quite into semi-autos and pushing that change, I have to admit that there is also the great perception of being better off, with any new or more modern gear. I had a customized Colt 1911 Government at the time, with the necessary mods. I can clearly see that having the latest and greatest has a "cool" factor, and even has an influence on the criminal element, as they check those things out, and fear a cop that looks like he is together, has good equipment, and appears to know how to use it. All that said, the revolver doesn't really give up that much in a real gunfight. Few down and dirty, fight-or-die shootouts, be they police or civilian defensive shoots, would be lost to a well employed revolver and won by some semi-auto. In a real fight, revolver or auto matters little. Honestly, do you think Jerry Miculek or Bob Munden (or countless cops "from the day" that knew how to use their revolvers) would be at a big disadvantage in a firefight with a revolver?

Bill Cosby and Robert Culp: Hickey and Boggs



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Pretty sure it was the trailer for the Avengers that showed one character using a Rhino revolver.

"I had a customized Colt 1911 Government at the time, with the necessary mods. I can clearly see that having the latest and greatest has a "cool" factor,..."

The 1911 can be called a lot of things, but "the latest and greatest" for a 100 year old design has got to be a stretch.

"with the necessary mods". Sure, the 1911's been around, but it didn't become "cool" until it had a trigger job, better sights, maybe an enhanced safety (I'm a lefty and need the ambi), etc. It became late and great when it got some facelifts, and endorsed by Jeff Cooper. Then we all jumped the bandwagon........

Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon.

Many of the NYPD Blue cops carried revolvers. Kim Delany (Det. Russel) carried a Colt Detective Special.

Hell Boy carries a revolvere that makes the .50S&W look like a rimfire.

http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/images/hellboy_and_gun.jpg

Snake Plisken carrying a SCOPED S&W 4" Model 66 in the futuristic "Escape from New York."

Yes but this one never needed reloading..

Lately he seems to be carrying an auto, but there is "Dr. Spencer Reid" (Matthew Gray Gubler) of Criminal Minds.
Vin Diesel in Triple XXX.

Sean Penn in "Colors".

Hunphrey Bogart in a lot of old "grey " movies -he also carried and shot a Luger, a bunch of Colt 380 autos, a broomhandle and some other stuff-machine guns and cannons too!

Bond carried an S&W 45 Colt - 6"- in one movie about the voodoo thing.

SFPD Motorcycle cop in Bullitt & steve McQueen

Model 58 & Colt Diamondback

Clive Owen in Inside Man

Ruger GP-100

Read urban fiction? Harry Dresden.

The stereotypical old white Irish cop on law and order is another. His name escapes me at the moment...

OK so it's not a revolver but I always loved how PFC Vasquez's carries a S&W model 39 as her back up gun.
That's pretty "ludite" for the 22nd century isn't it?
http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/4/44/ALIENS-SW39-1.jpg/600px-ALIENS-SW39-1.jpg

Starksy and Hutch. Starsky with the autoloader and Hutch with the wheel gun.

OK so it's not a revolver but I always loved how PFC Vasquez's carries a S&W model 39 as her back up gun.
That's pretty "ludite" for the 22nd century isn't it?
http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/4/44/ALIENS-SW39-1.jpg/600px-ALIENS-SW39-1.jpg

...Not to mention Hicks with his pump shotgun... :D


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Fun fact, it was actually producer Gale Ann Hurd's hands firing the S&W 39 in the climactic final scene with Vasquez, as Jenette Goldstein couldn't handle the weapon properly.

I also have to plug my own fiction, as I have a character who carries and uses a S&W 625 "Model of 1988" rather profusely.

Some other character in fiction packs a webley...can't remember off hand

This is the one I am trying to remember! My google-fu is week tonight.

The main character carries a .476 while everyone else carries lasers or .17 caliber electromagnetic rail guns (pistols).

It's an "alternate timeline" type story that diverges from reality at the time of the Whiskey Rebellion; in fact the WR has a different outcome and serves as the catalyst for the divergence.

I seem to remember simians being on the same level as man, a la Planet of the Apes.

There is a quote in the book along the lines of (not verbatim)...

"If muzzle blast was stopping power, you'd be the deadliest gunman on the planet."

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Dirk Pitt and his bowen. Some other character in fiction packs a webley...can't remember off hand

Dirk Pitt carried a .45 Colt (Except in Pacific Vortex, when he had a Mauser C92). I'm pretty sure that it was a 1911A1, but I think they mention a 14 round magazine in one of the books (I'm thinking it was either Treasure or Inca Gold.)

Kurt Austin is the Cussler character who carries the Ruger Blackhawk converted by Bowen Arms to a .50. He actually fits the trope better, as he also collects the old dueling pistols.

The Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver was carried by the Big Bad in Pacific Vortex.

Another Literary example is the Nightcrawler in Dead Six, written by our on Larry Correia and Mike Kupari.

Colonel Quatrich in Avatar carried a revolver, albeit a very futuristic one.

Lets not forget almost the whole cast of Firefly and Serenity as well.

Chris "the Kayak-Man" Johnson

Just a little reality check here. ... All that said, the revolver doesn't really give up that much in a real gunfight. Few down and dirty, fight-or-die shootouts, be they police or civilian defensive shoots, would be lost to a well employed revolver and won by some semi-auto. In a real fight, revolver or auto matters little. Honestly, do you think Jerry Miculek or Bob Munden (or countless cops "from the day" that knew how to use their revolvers) would be at a big disadvantage in a firefight with a revolver?

Unfortunately, I can't locate the source tonight, but there is a quote I remember from the late 1980s or early 90s, when the revolver vs. semi-auto debate was being fought out in police departments across the US and Canada.

An NYPD detective shot it out with a thug. He survived unharmed; the thug died on the spot. Afterwards, the officer was asked if he had felt badly outgunned facing down a criminal armed with the latest style .45ACP autoloader while he only had a .38Spl snubby revolver.

His answer (which has stuck in my memory for about 20 years):

"Me shooting straight, with my .38,
Beat him giving me jive, with his .45."

Or as Bill Jordan used to say: "Speed is deadly, but accuracy is fatal." And "I've yet to hear of a man being killed by a fast noise."

Dr. Temperance Brennan (AKA "Bones") has been know to pull what looks like a .500 S&W from her purse a time or two.

Sealey Booth carried a revolver on that show at first too, I believe.

The stereotypical old white Irish cop on law and order is another. His name escapes me at the moment...

Lennie Briscoe, played by Jerry Orbach. He was an uncle of one of my good friends. Decent fella in real life from what I've heard. Never got to meet him.

Brendan Fraser uses a pair of Chamelot-Delvigne Model 1873s in "The Mummy", a S&W Triple Lock in "The Mummy Returns", and a S&W Smith & Wesson Military & Police and Colt SAA in the "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor".

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French in The Departed. Colt Python. Everyone else is carrying Sigs, Berrettas, and Walthers. I love that movie.

Oh yeah, another one from The Departed.

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/7/72/Vlcsnap-171601.jpg

David O'Harra with a S&W 36.

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Funny as hell.

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/a/a3/FearLoathing-157.png

I love the random anger shooting in this scene.

Ok I'm not sure if it fits in this thread, but all the other guns in this movie are machine guns, and Dr. Gonzo is rolling around with a .357. It's just classic imagery too. Sorry if it doesn't fit due to the erra it is suppossed to be taking place in. S&W Model 19

Wrong era but neat guns- is OK with me= how about the murder weapon in one of Bogies thrillas -a "Webley -Fosbery Automatic" revolver . Really neat -look it up!

Brendan Fraser uses a pair of Chamelot-Delvigne Model 1873s in "The Mummy", a S&W Triple Lock in "The Mummy Returns", and a S&W Smith & Wesson Military & Police and Colt SAA in the "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
I don't know that Brendan Fraser's weapon choices in the Mummy movies exactly fit the OP's "old-fashioned and out of date" motif -- the movies were set between the World Wars when revolvers were still very much current issue weapons with most armies and police forces throughout the world. In the harsher backwaters, even the SAAs weren't all that old-fashioned a choice then given their reputation at the time for being more ruggedly reliable than DA revolvers.

screwtape:

Point taken sir.

This is the one I am trying to remember! My google-fu is week tonight.

The main character carries a .476 while everyone else carries lasers or .17 caliber electromagnetic rail guns (pistols).

It's an "alternate timeline" type story that diverges from reality at the time of the Whiskey Rebellion; in fact the WR has a different outcome and serves as the catalyst for the divergence.

I seem to remember simians being on the same level as man, a la Planet of the Apes.

There is a quote in the book along the lines of (not verbatim)...

"If muzzle blast was stopping power, you'd be the deadliest gunman on the planet."

One free interwebs win for whoever can spit the title and/or author out for me.
Sounds like one of L. Neil Smith's "Probability Broach" SciFi series. He gives his characters from an alternate reality a lot of interesting guns, including the Webley, and the Dardick "revolver".

Capt. Mal Reynolds in "Firefly" and "Serenity" also carries a revolver, and his First Officer carries a "Mare's Leg" sawed-off carbine.

Deckart in Blade Runner.While the prop of Deckard's sidearm has a revolver incorporated into it, the film never actually identifies it as one, nor does it ever intimate that the design is outdated. In fact, several people other than Deckard are using it, suggesting that it's fairly popular.

edit: Also both Tango & Cash carry revolvers in the movie of the same name. Tango with a S&W Model 36 Chief's Special and Cash has a Ruger GP100 that's fitted with what appears to be some kind of video recording equipment (how in god's name does that fit into a holster?).

In his novels Robert B. Parker usually has/had Spenser carrying a "Smith & Wesson .38 revolver with a short barrel." One would assume Model 10 or 15. Other times he kept a .357 Magnum in his desk drawer and would occassionally carry it. Again, I assume a model 19. On the TV shows, Hawk packed a Python, either nickle or stainless, or a Smith 629.

On the season finale of Psyche two weeks ago, Henry (Spenser's dad) was shot by a dirty ex-cop with a j-frame.

FWIW, I saw a county sheriff's deputy yesterday with a revolver on his Sam Browne. He had pulled someone over and I was passing by so I didn't get a good look at it.



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While the prop of Deckard's sidearm has a revolver incorporated into it, the film never actually identifies it as one

THANK YOU for pointing that out. I have heard that coment so many times, and it just isn't true when you look at what the prop is supposed to represent. When he shoots it in the movie, there is no revolution of a cylinder.

I was looking at a 4" Chiappa Rhino awhile ago, and the salesm said to me "Have you ever seen Bladerunner?" I responded "Yes I have." He responded "That gun looks just like the one Harrison Ford used in that movie!" All I could think was "Ummmm...... no it doesn't. Have YOU seen Blade Runner?" I was polite though, and just said thanks and left.

Anyway, back to it.

THANK YOU for pointing that out. I have heard that coment so many times, and it just isn't true when you look at what the prop is supposed to represent. When he shoots it in the movie, there is no revolution of a cylinder.
Yes, while the Blade Runner gun does look vaguely "revolverish" it really isn't one.

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/b/bf/Pistol_11.jpg

Sylvester Stalone carries a Colt SAA as his back-up in The Expendables. Awesome movie

The Colt Single Action Army is the handgun of choice of Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller), and New Jersey (Jeff Goldblum) also totes a pair of them in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension"...


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http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/e/e1/Red_313.jpg

My all time favorite example. John Malkovich in RED with a S&W 460V. I happen to own one of these, which is probably why.

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/f/f1/Red_310.jpg

I like this thread. It's a fun one. Thanks to the OP for starting it.

Harry in Harry's Law on TV carries a S&W 44 Mag (I think) she pulled it ot of her purse and shot a mouse (or something) in her office-nobody even went deaf! Imagine that! If I remember right she also used it to good effect to scare some thugs that were messing with her. I think it was a 4" 29 like mine.

Porter carries an S&W model 29 in Payback. Quite a few people carrying S&W revolvers in that now that I think about it.

Hey - I'm old enough to remember Mannix. One character actually whipped out a break top SW (or similar) gun.

Or the Vampire move with Robert Loggia - the beautiful vampire started to bite him as he was pinned on the coach and he whipped out a J frame from an ankle holster and hosed her off of him.

Man I suck at this game.. I just check and its a Ruger Security Six in ss that Sarah has.

Sarah Conner had a S&W mod 66 in the jeep with her in the end of Terminator.


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Carrying a revolver does not make you a Luddite. It's a perfectly useful carry gun.

(The Luddite movement was named for Ned Ludd, who supposedly sabotaged some weaving equipment in England iirc, around 1770 or 1780.)

Yes, while the Blade Runner gun does look vaguely "revolverish" it really isn't one.

I believe that under all the weird-looking stuff is an old Charter .44 sp Bulldog.

I believe that under all the weird-looking stuff is an old Charter .44 sp Bulldog.What the prop is made of isn't really relevant to what it's meant represent in the fiction, which is what this thread is about.

Some other character in fiction packs a webley...can't remember off hand

Andy McDermott has a series of books starring "Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase" His sidearm of choice is a Webley...

Modesty Blaise (Search for her; it's worth it) carried a Colt .32 of unspecifed type in most of the books. I think it'd be a Cobra or Det. Spcl., given the 1960's-1990's time frame of the novels.

The same character appeared in comic strips in about 53 countries.

She also had a S&W .41 Magnum for longer range needs and adopted a Star PD .45 auto to replace the .32 in the last few books.

Villains used at least one S&W Bodyguard .38 and other .41 Mags.

In TV, "The Lost World" characters used revolvers in the 1919-1922 time frame. Lord John Roxton had a brace of nickled Webley MK VI .455's as well as a .45 auto. Wore them in different episodes. Marguerite Krux had any of several hammerless revolvers, inc.one Webley WP and an old Iver Johnson. Must have been what the prop house had on hand some days. Various others had Webley MK IV .38's. Prof. Challenger had a Colt SAA or some copy posing as one. If you look closely, you can see that a "Colt" was really a Ruger Blackhawk in the "Finn" episode and in the case of "Trophies", where villain Avery Burton had it. Check YouTube for clips. There's a really sharp clip dubbed in Russian showing the Ruger in, "Trophies". Look from about 63:00-1:05, etc. Look for the sights, especially: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rf3ZSZqDSg&feature=related Don't get distracted by Jennifer O'Dell, who played Veronica on the show. That's easy to do; get distracted.

I'm not in a movie, a book, or on TV, but I carry a revolver at work, a S&W Model 686. One of my coworkers does, as well, but he's retiring next week. Everyone else carries Glock 22s.

ECS

I was in Ocean City, MD last summer and saw two police officers with four inch blued Colts in their holsters. I remember it specifically because I was surprised. I also remember my wife getting tired of hearing about it pretty quick.

It's like a seven part series. The Dark Tower, yadda. Seems pretty good with a gun.

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/media/Stephen_King_Dark_Tower_Book_1_Gunslinger_unabridged_compact_discs.jpg

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man......

a super blackhawk 454 casull conversion...... http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Harley_Davidson_and_the_Marlboro_Man

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man......

a super blackhawk 454 casull conversion...... http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Harley_Davidson_and_the_Marlboro_Man


Marlboro: You know, that gun costs about two dollars every time you fire it. That's two bucks a bullet.

Harley Davidson: Well how many'd I hit?

Marlboro: You spent twelve dollars and didn't hit a goddamn thing. I nailed one and it cost about four and a quarter.



Also, I can't find the exact quote online, but Marlboro (Don Johnson) said something like, "You're using a Ruger Blackhawk .44 magnum reamed out to .454? No wonder you can't hit anything with it, Harley!"


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Lilyhammer - you can watch the trailer in this link - http://blogs.indiewire.com/carynjames/lilyhammer-take-the-gun-leave-the-sheeps-head-silvio-goes-to-norway

He uses a snub through the series.

"One of my favorite things to see in a movie or book is the trope of the guy who's been around for years, seen-it-all, and chooses to keep carrying a revolver (or other old-fashioned gun) when everyone around him has switched to semiautos (or other modern gun). Just for fun, let's make a definitive list of popular fiction featuring this trope."

Well, I'm neither famous or fictional, but of all the handguns available to me, my Vaquero Sheriff's Model is on my hip more than my Glock or 1911.:rolleyes:

It's like a seven part series. The Dark Tower, yadda. Seems pretty good with a gun.

8 part now, with the release of "The Wind through the Keyhole" on 4/24 :)


Ok, i'll bite:

The Winchester brothers in Tv's Supernatural carry an old demon-killing revolver made by Samuel Colt

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Supernatural_TheColt.png

http://www3.images.coolspotters.com/photos/672823/colt-patterson-revolver-and-supernatural-gallery.jpg

Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly has a revolver-ish primary weapon

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/5115/292074-mal_reynolds.jpg

Nathan Drake from Sony's Uncharted franchise has been known to use a few, although not exclusively

http://images.wikia.com/uncharted/images/4/42/Nathan_Drake_2.jpg

Nathan Fillion again, this time in ABC's Castle

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/d/dd/Castle-Castle-Revolver-1.jpg/500px-Castle-Castle-Revolver-1.jpg

And in the same show, Captain Montgomery from the first two seasons exclusively uses revolvers

http://sharetv.org/images/castle/cast/large/capt_roy_montgomery.jpg

In contemporary fiction, a Ruger Redhawk and a Ruger Bearcat shows up in Gene Wolfe's collection of short stories "Starwater Strains".

Well when I conceal carry I carry a Charter Arms Undercover Southpaw in .38 spcl.

And when I open carry I carry this:


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Okay, I'll date myself, detectives in TV series 77 sunset strip, Leslie Nielsen in the POlice Story comedy are 2 that come to mind.

Mummy movies with Brendan Fraser - Chamelot-Delvigne Model 1873

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Mummy,_The

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Alice from Resident Evil

Mickey Rourke with a Blackhawk in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/8/86/HarleyMarl_002.jpg/600px-HarleyMarl_002.jpg

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/f/f0/HarleyMarl_1019.jpg/600px-HarleyMarl_1019.jpg


and this guy with a Redhawk

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/3/37/Rug_redh.jpg

Patrick Swayze in Point Break carried a Freedom Arms .454 MAg with a long barrel. Pretty heavy for a bank robber!

Great replies guys. Got another one for you. Detective Heigh in "Texas Killing Fields" carries a S&W Model 19, in contrast to the Glocks carried by the younger officers:

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ9xYNYDyr7z3BiyUSPMQoGXWljMwuIFLTThFmL0otntAlOStEa

Someone may have mentioned this, but "Dr. Watson" must have carried one.

I seem to remember Holmes telling Watson to "Bring your revolver" a time or two.

Yep it was Watson's service revolver. Which considering the time period was probably a .455 Webley.

The 1911 can be called a lot of things, but "the latest and greatest" for a 100 year old design has got to be a stretch.

Apparently you've never seen a Razorcat.

Go look.

http://jjracaza.com/latest-news/the-razorcat/

Watson probably carried an Enfield or some revolver in 450 Adams, perhaps a Tranter considering he was retired from the service in the 1870's and 80's. Of course at the time, such revolvers were high-tech. A luddite would carry a single-shot percussion.

Of course, he could have carried a Webley, who am I to argue.

Spencer in the Robert Parker novels carries a .38 snub. I think a Colt, but I don't remember. He moves to a Hi-Power if "expecting trouble" and the snub is a backup.

Hawk carried some big chrome 44 Mag.

Joe Pike carries a 357 Python

I think those are to give the detective and buddy some 'class'. I also note that detectives also like to listen to jazz and drink single malt. It is a bit of a cliche.

However, the more modern folks carry Glocks or Sigs. Some competitive shooter types like Lucas Davenport carry 1911s. Stone Barrington has a custom 1911. But those aren't for nostalgia but tuned up guns.

James Lee Burke's old sheriff (Hackberry Holland) in modern times still carries a SAA. I've actually seen that on some rural sheriffs in TX.

Indiana jones in the first movie....

Didn't he throw a very large revolver in his suitcase with the comment "I'm always careful."

Looked like a webley to my untrained eye.


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First movie it was a Webley , by the third he had switched to a Colt

In The Crow, Funboy uses what looks like a S&W 64. He's a bad guy gang member, though, so does that count?

Die Hard with a Vengeance....

the last shot fired that won the battle.....from a model 36

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/6/65/DH3_021.jpg/800px-DH3_021.jpg

and my favorite bad guy with a 629 squareing off against nick nolte in Extreme Prejudice
http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/c/cb/EP-S%26W629-3.jpg/600px-EP-S%26W629-3.jpg

Indiana Jones started with a S&W .45 Hand Ejector. http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/matquig/DSC05648.jpg

The OP was asking about luddites carrying revolvers. I feel like many of the movie characters cited in this thread are guys from the 70's or 80's or even earlier. Carrying something that is correct for the period does not a luddite make.

Just finished the latest Sanford book, Buried Prey, and the bad guy checks his glock in his pocket to be sure the safety is off. Sanford get a couple anti gun shots in there also.

Gregg Hurwitz has a few novels I liked: "Troubleshooter", "The Program" and "The Kill Clause".

His character, Tim Rackley (a LEO), carries a S&W .357 Mag revolver.

Gene Hackman's blunderbuss in "Loose Cannons"

Someone beat me to The Dark Tower, but good to see it was in the first reply. Of course in that series guns in general are pretty rare. Gotta read this new 8th part, is it part of the story or just the same universe?

Nick Nolte's gun in 48 Hours (stolen by the BG and used throughout most of the film) is a Model 29. The other BG chooses a full-length single-action revolver (Colt New Frontier?) as his weapon.

In the awful Dylan Dog movie of last year, the protagonist uses a Webley Mk VI in .455, with appropriate wood-bullet rounds for vampires, and probably silver for lycanthropes.

All my best,
Dirty Bob

First movie it was a Webley , by the third he had switched to a Colt

Other way around. He used a Smith 4" 44 and in the rest a Webley

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Ah I had it wrong. No worries.

Tackleberry in Police Academy. Yeah okay he switched to a Detonics-something at one point but still.

Several characters in Dexter have revolvers. The two that come to mind are Masuka with his ginormous piece at the bowling alley and Boyd Fowler from Season 5.

In Flashpoint (the TV show, not the movie), I've seen them use revolvers with their shield. There are a few episodes where bad guys have revolvers and the cops are counting down to when they're empty. The Judge is also used by a drug dealer in Season 1 (called "The Jury" on the show - they seem to purposefully misname guns on that show for some reason). They also use rubber bullets in revolvers.

One of the most powerful guns in Half Life is the Colt Anaconda.

In Firefly, they have what look like old style guns (lever actions and revolvers) that have futuristic sounds when being charged.

The tow truck driver from Men in Black carried a big wheelgun.

In the first season of Battlestar Galactica (the new one), they had a heavily modified 686. Later they used a virtually unmodified fiveseven.
There are also a few 4-shot derringers in BG.

In Psych, there is an episode where Lassider gets in a Western shootout with the bad guy, where the bad guy has a revolver and Lassider has his Glock. Lassider also owns a 4-shot derringer which appears to be his bump-in-the-night weapon.

On Police Academy, the big redneck brought a giant pistol to the practice range. When the instructor asked where he got it, he responded "My Mama got that for me!"

Stallone's character in The Expendables uses a single action revolver. Jason Statham is more of a ludite, he uses knives.

Nicholas Cage, The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call New Orleans, Model 29
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mHVCpqVgj_0/SwjSm6gPwTI/AAAAAAAACF0/YbtJI9AsRhI/s1600/bad_lieutenant_4-(3).jpg

Joe Sarno (James Caan) in Way of the gun:

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:WoGS%26W640-3.jpg
http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/e/e0/WayOfGun_JamesCaan_03aa.jpg
http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/5/50/WoGS%26W640.jpg

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/2/2f/Leon-S%26W629snub-3.jpg

Gary Oldman in The Professional. S&W 629

In an episode of Terra Nova an EMP knocks out all their futuristic weaponry. Later on the bartender shoots an intruder with a revolver (too lazy to find a video to check the make). The best part was he said something like "glad that worked I only had the one bullet"

too lazy to find a video to check the make
I seem to remember it being a stainless k-frame of some type. Possibly a model 66 or 64?

In the new game by EA and DICE, called Battlefield 3, two revolvers can be used in play, the MP412 Rex, and some sort of .44 Magnum, the .44 Magnum can come scoped or with iron sights. I'd like to know what kind of revolver the .44 is.

ETA: I think it's a model 629, but not sure. A Taurus tracker looks similar as well.

Can you believe I'm almost 30 and this is the first time I've seen "Last Action Hero"? Man what a fun, dumb, movie. Charles Dance's super-assassin uses a custom target model S&W:

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/0/0b/3863targetLastActionHero-2.jpg/600px-3863targetLastActionHero-2.jpg

Dan Ackroyd (an assassin in this movie)uses two revolvers in blowing away a bunch of people at the start of the movie -wow! Forgot the name of it but mcucho gunplay and I loved thos ebig six shooters -couldnot figure out wha tthey were though.

Dan Ackroyd (an assassin in this movie)uses two revolvers in blowing away a bunch of people at the start of the movie -wow! Forgot the name of it but mcucho gunplay and I loved thos ebig six shooters -couldnot figure out wha tthey were though.

Sounds like his roll in Grosse Point Blank (http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Grosse_Pointe_Blank):

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/e/e1/Gpb-rugergp100b.jpg/800px-Gpb-rugergp100b.jpg

You got it!! Thre is an iuncredible amount of shooting in this flick-but this kill at the beginning is really something!
Anyone Know what the guns are? Movie S&W's ??? They have scope mounts on the barrels.

I think those are Pythons.

ETA: I was wrong. IMFDB says they're S&W 29s.

Jack Harkness on the British series "Torchwood" carried a Webley (maybe it's an Enfield) revolver in a flap holster.

That's because he cannot die and thus can afford to carry less rounds than most of us. :D

Just watched killer elite. One of the main guys buddies was using a revolver..... Till he got taken out by the new kid.


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[QUOTE=BBQLS1;8152739]Joe Sarno (James Caan) in Way of the gun:




Dangit BBQ! I just found this thread, and was excited when by page 4 no one had yet to mention Sarno, that was going to be my post! +1 and high five to you instead :D i LOVE that gun-fight scene, everyone clearly knows what they are doing.

Trying to remember, there was a Chow Yun Fat movie where he was REALLY talented with a revolver. Usually he's seen with a Beretta 92 or two, but in this flick he was a cop carrying a not-quite-snub but shorter bbl'd DA wheelgun in a world of semi-autos. He frequently made shots that were the equivalent to shooting a nail into a board. One of those times he had to blow the lock on a door or something, so he actually dissected one of his rounds, put the powder where he wanted it, then put the primed-case in a crack and shot it... which did exactly what he wanted it to of course :) I also remember him rescuing a baby towards the end, which puts him at a disadvantage, and he once again makes an insane shot with the wheel-gun... I've been googling trying to find it as I write this, will continue and edit with title if I find it

On the show Blue Bloods (decent show with good morals) Tom Selleck pulls out what appears to be a snub 37 chiefs model on more than one occasion. It is I guess supposed to be befitting him, however I grew up watching Magnum PI and still expect to see him with a 1911. ;)

Selleck carries a short bbl custom 1911 in his role as the Police Chief of Paradise-in a new Jesse Stone TV movie last nite he popped a sniper who was trying to plug him with what looked lke a Marlin guide gun supposedly in 308 (with removeable night scope). The Chief put 7 x45 slugs in the bad guy -he made sure he was a goner! Good flashlight technique too!
This thread sort of got into some slightly off topic stuff -maybe not revolver Luddite, but I am a Luddite so there!! Love it!

Looks like Colin Farrell will be carrying a Chiappa Rhino in the new Total Recall movie:

http://i.imgur.com/qKybG.jpg

Looks like Colin Farrell will be carrying a Chiappa Rhino in the new Total Recall movie

Hmm, if that's true, I may have to upgrade my expectation for this movie from "total disdain" to "cautiously optimistic". I love revolvers in sci-fi, it's a real weakness.... hence the whole point of this thread.

Total Recall was a perfect movie and needs no update.

Looks like Colin Farrell will be carrying a Chiappa Rhino in the new Total Recall movie

Finally! It's about time those wheelguns start showing up in cinema :) Honestly, film is the best use for them (because they're so dead sexy, not because they don't shoot)

TCB

^^^Amen on the prospects of the movie, though. Perhaps they should just call it...TOTAL REMAKE!!!:D

Old Heisenberg is seen quite a bit with a revolver.

http://i.imgur.com/pumii.jpg

I thumbed through this whole thread and DID NOT FIND A PICTURE OF THE MOST FAMOUS REVOLVER MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!!! What's WITH you people, anyway? :D

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/25100000/Do-you-feel-lucky-dirty-harry-25130434-360-270.jpg

'Course, I kinda like this one, too. I've watched Outlaw Jose Wales probably over 100 times, just never get enough. :D It has to be the most run movie on dish network. LOL

I do realize, though, these were modern guns in the time periods in which these movies were made. Still, no movie revolver thread is complete in MY mind, even one with "Luddite" in the title, without Harry Callahan and Jose Wales.....


http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/12/1290/XEGO000Z/art-print/clint-eastwood-the-outlaw-josey-wales.jpg

Although this guy may not be a luddite (he's in an alternate reality), I always liked the short piece -- "Detective Story" -- in The Animatrix. A few moments before this, we saw him do a reload behind cover while under fire from three agents.
http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=165570&d=1338655375
All my best,
Dirty Bob

Just watched the movie Texas Killing Fields (very grim) and the older detective carried a big SW - might have been a Model 19 or some N frame.

Didn't work out well for him but a phaser won't have helped.

REVOLVERS ARE JUST PLAIN SEXY! :neener:

THANK YOU for pointing that out. I have heard that coment so many times, and it just isn't true when you look at what the prop is supposed to represent. When he shoots it in the movie, there is no revolution of a cylinder.

I was looking at a 4" Chiappa Rhino awhile ago, and the salesm said to me "Have you ever seen Bladerunner?" I responded "Yes I have." He responded "That gun looks just like the one Harrison Ford used in that movie!" All I could think was "Ummmm...... no it doesn't. Have YOU seen Blade Runner?" I was polite though, and just said thanks and left.

Anyway, back to it.
I do believe Deckard's handgun in Bladefrunner is based off Ye Olde Charter Arms Bulldog plus some Steyr rifle parts....

http://props.steinschneider.com/blade_runner/bldrunbl.htm

Yes it is. You are correct about that.......... but my point is that the prop is not ment to represent a revolver if it were a real gun, and thus does not fit into this category. Unless there is a cylinder revolution that is visible in the film and I missed it. If that's the case then I'm flat wrong.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Blade_Runner

Of corse it's fake so it really doesn't matter.

I still say a Chiappa Rhino looks nothing like it.

Hey, the Chiappa Rhino is now the "Total Recall" gun, though I'm not sure that counts as a "throwback"

TCB

Robert Cult as Boggs with a S&W Model 29 in Hickey & Boggs(1972).

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/HIBOG_05.jpg

Bill Cosby as Hickey with a long barreled Colt Official Police in Hickey & Boggs.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/HIBOG_12.jpg

Nicholas Cage as United States Secret Service Agent Doug Chesnic interviewing a suspect with his Smith & Wesson Model 19 snubbie in Guarding Tess (1994).

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/Tess.jpg

Lloyd Henreid (Miguel Ferrer) shoots and kills Glen Bateman (Ray Walston) with a Smith & Wesson Model 64 that has a 3" barrel in the 1994 television mini-series The Stand.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/StandA.jpg

Nick Andros (Rob Lowe) makes his point to murderous redneck Ray Booth (Patrick Kilpatrick) with a S&W Model 28 Highway Patrolman in The Stand.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/StandB.jpg

Nick Andros takes care of Ray with a S&W Model 15 in The Stand.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/StandC.jpg

Judge Farris (Ossie Davis) prepares to confront Flagg's men with a S&W Model 29 at the beginning of the fourth chapter of the mini-series The Stand (1994).

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/StandD.jpg

During a memorable car chase sequence Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) is seen using a Colt Lawman MK III Snubnose Revolver in the Brian DePalma cheesey classic The Fury (1977).

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/Fury.jpg

And of course what this thread be without images of Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle in the classic Taxi Driver (1975).

First we see Travisw practing with his S&W Model 29.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/TaxiB.jpg

And then we have an image of him practicing with his nickel plated S&W Model 36
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/TaxiA.jpg

Ron Perlman as Deputy Entragian in the 2005 television adaptation of the Stephen King novel Desperation. Note that his hands are so large that he actually makes the N frame Model 28 look like the K frame Model 19.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/Desperation.jpg

Sheriff Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) uses a Smith & Wesson Model 27 with a 3.5" barrel in the 2010 remake of the George Romero 1973 classic The Crazies.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/Crazies.jpg

Samuel Jackson as Mitch with a Colt King Cobra in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996).

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/Longkiss.jpg

Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume prepares for the final confrontation with the gang in 2007's Death Sentance. In addition to the nickel plated Colt Python he also uses a SxS 12 gauge.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/Death.jpg

Indiana jones in the first movie

One of the best scenes in movie history when Indy shot the guy with the sword. Don't bring a sword to a gunfight.

I agree truly a classic moment in movie history. I can still remember how I felt when I first saw this scene waayyy back in 1981 as a thirteen year old kid. I applauded like a lot of folks in the theater.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/Indysword.jpg

And for those who care this is a photo of the actual S&W MK II Hand Ejector in .455 Webley that was used by HArrision Ford during the action sequences (to include him shooting the swordsman) in Cairo as well as when he shoots open the canopy of the plane so that he can get Marion out before it blows up.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/IndySW.jpg

Another classic shot of Indy with the Mk II.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/Indybigbore.jpg

For opening sequence and one shot added later when Indy is packing to go find MArion in Nepal he carries a S&W M1917 in 45acp that has also been modified.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/IndySecondSW.jpg

This shot was added later and shows the M1917 just before Indy throws it into his suitcase.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/IndyPacking.jpg

A better quality photo of the S&W Mk II (.455). Both the Mk II and the M1917 are now in private collections. I don't know how much either one was sold for, but I bet the prices were impressive. Especially for two chopped and battered S&W revolvers. Truth be told I wouldn't mind having either one or both of them in my collection.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa427/checkman1/IndyMk2.jpg

I guess Indy was not worried about civilian casualties:)
Ain't Hollywood great? And to think so many people get all their information about guns from the television and video games.

If I handed this one to Harrison Ford, he wouldn't know the difference.:D http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m247/matquig/DSC05648.jpg

Quoheleth May 2, 2012, 05:10 PM
In his novels Robert B. Parker usually has/had Spenser carrying a "Smith & Wesson .38 revolver with a short barrel." One would assume Model 10 or 15. Other times he kept a .357 Magnum in his desk drawer and would occassionally carry it. Again, I assume a model 19. On the TV shows, Hawk packed a Python, either nickle or stainless, or a Smith 629.


True, but when things got tough, Spenser brought out his Browning Highpower! Or a 44 Magnum levergun.

I searched the thread for Spenser - was thinking the same thing: the 38 revolver he carried, because he could easily always have it with him. Love the Highpower, but hard to argue with that logic.

jrdolall

I guess Indy was not worried about civilian casualties
Ain't Hollywood great? And to think so many people get all their information about guns from the television and video games.

I'm not sure that we need to make a political commentary when it comes to Indiana Jones and the movies. They are a fantasy after all. Let's not try so hard to suck the fun out of everything.

Couple come ta' mind ..

Peter with a FIE Titan Tiger (yeh, I know) in Dawn of the Dead (1978).
http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/c/c3/D78basement.jpg/600px-D78basement.jpg

Capt. Rhodes in Day of the Dead (1985) with a 629 (.44 Mag-o-rama).
http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/f/fc/DayotdS%26W3.jpg/600px-DayotdS%26W3.jpg

I think detective writers fall into cliches and think carrying a revolver makes the detective look quirky. They also like single malt scotch and obscure jazz. Yawn.

Or the side kick carries a big revolver to intimidate folks with his manly powers. Joe Pike or Hawk. But note each has serious relatioship and personal issues.

most sidekicks I know are regular guys-see Tonto and Pancho-OK, maybe not so regular but faithful....

I think this thread has gone off the rails and is now the "revolvers in movies thread" rather than the "luddites with revolvers" thread. No big deal, we came up with some good ones in there.

How about Detective Sledge Hammer?

Jody Foster in The Silence of the Lambs carrying a S&W model 13

I think this thread has gone off the rails and is now the "revolvers in movies thread" rather than the "luddites with revolvers" thread. No big deal, we came up with some good ones in there.

My thoughts exactly. He's not a luddite if he's carrying a revolver during a time period when carrying a revolver was the norm!

Edit to add:
I just remembered that I had posted something (http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=8148004&postcount=90) to that effect back on page 4.

That is true, but threads almost always seem to go off the rails and then they get closed by admin. But until then you can have fun with the trainwreck.

How about these guys? I mean come on, this came out in 1993, we all know there were plenty of good automatics to choose from in 1993!
:neener:

12 Monkeys. set in 1996 and at the end Bruce Willis character is given a LeMat revolver to use... with no caps haha

http://www.imfdb.org/w/images/thumb/a/a2/12MLeMat.JPG/500px-12MLeMat.JPG

Van Damme in Assassination Games has two Colt Army revolvers at one stage...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gDU-nhK0Sak/TqV6z961sNI/AAAAAAAABGs/aHHilns3rlw/s1600/assassination-games.jpg

Spenser is a prime example of the revolver as quirky personality nuance. He lives a dangerous life and anytime could be in serious trouble. So if he was up on things, he would have carried the HP or moved to a more modern gun as in the last books. It takes no more effort to belt carry a Glock 26 or equivalent SW or XD as a snubby. It was just a plot point.

Off topic, but the last Parker book and the Ace Atkins books were so-so. They were more about junior high level quips than plot.

I note that Jesse Stone carried a modern 1911 version - thus again demonstrating Spenser was just posturing.

Ford Fairlane (Andrew Dice Clay) carries a nickel plated Smith 38 Bodyguard in "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane"


William Sanderson's character uses a Colt Walker in "Last Man Standing".

Mal's pistol in Firefly was a Taurus Model 85 "completely covered by a brass casting to make it resemble a semi-auto handgun."

Jayne Cobb had a modified LeMat rrevolver, in the same series.
Colt SAA, Python, and Smith 15 were also used int that series.

Chow Yun-Fat carried a 4" Ruger GP100 as detective Tequila in Hard Boiled.