Movies featuring blackpowder firearms?

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The only other scene with loading a bp revolver that I can remember is in — was it a John Wayne movie? Dang, I miss my memory — anyway, it showed a woman trying to load a Walker in the middle of being attacked by some wolves or a mountain lion or some such critter — but no close up; you couldn't really see what was happening very well, except that she was having trouble loading the sucker.
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"Quigley Down Under" - she was hiding in a cave trying to hold off a pack of Dingos with a Dragoon (that was almost as big as her). She actually goes through the correct loading motions, and there are a couple of scenes while she's firing the gun that are fairly close-up and spectacular...

Of course, you can always count on any Tom Sellek western to be as authentic as is possible; I especially like his Louis L'Amour stuff

I also like "12 Monkeys", a futuristic Sci-Fi film where Bruce Willis is given a LeMat revolver to use during the closing moments. I don't think there was any other significance to it's use in the movie other than the fact that it's a really, really big gun...
 
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Airpistols are even rarer!

The ONE sequence I ever saw was in the 3 Musketeers where you see one of the Musketeers winding a Bellows-Style Pistol to gut-shoot Faye Dunnaway with!
.69 Caliber at about 500fps.
Killed 'ol Faye dead!
ZVP
 
Waterloo is another pre CGI movie. That was a large scale production.

There's some small production companies that make Civil War flicks. Their authenticity is very good but being small productions, we're talking about less than 50 actors and extras.
 
I should have thought of it before, but the whole Sharpe's series with Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe is great in this regard. Only drawback to the series is they just don't have enough extras in the battles to get the feel of the books.
 
Not necessarily a war movie, but I feel like I just have to mention "Ravenous". Robert Carlyle and Guy Pearce. For those not familiar, it's a horror movie with some alright humor in it, as well, though it is not a comedy by any means.

Takes place at the end of the Mexican-American war (~1848 I think?), and a US captain is sent to a desolate Fort Spencer in the western Sierras. A man, nearly dead, shows up telling of how his group of travellers got into a bad situation (think.. well.. cannibalism), and things take off from there.

I haven't watched it in a little while but there are some nice, big colt revolvers used, as well as a couple of BP rifles. Probably my favorite horror movie, and easily one of my favorite original musical scores.

I highly recommend it.

I also didn't mention that Ravenous and Last of the Mohicans are the two movies that pulled me into BP guns!
 
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Man of the Wilderness starring Richard Harris. Harris portrays trapper/hunter Zak Smith who is mauled by a grizzly. Two companions remain behind while the rest of the fur trading company pushes on to the Mississippi. After a day, the companions abandon him and Zak Smith slowly recovers. Without even a knife, the most essential tool of the mountain man/trapper/hunter, he returns to civilization after enduring many hardships.

The guns were wrong. They had barrel bands so they look like muskets. The locks look wrong too and some close up shots (albeit brief) looked like there was a huge block where the pan should have been. I wonder if they converted some Trapdoors for the movie.
 
I think it was in the Disney version of the Three Musketeers that there was a handsome jager rifle hanging over the door. They never handled it though and it was up there merely as a decoration.
 
all previous mentions i agree with especially clint eastwood stuff
but have a look on youtube for sharpes rifles the first in a great series
with a couple of movies i think as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOAWSU5_4t4

set in napolianic times

lots of cool blackpowder stuff
 
Lonesome Dove has Colt Walker; "51 Navy; "58 Rem Carbine; Sharps; Henrys;Derringer; various shotguns; and Colt SAA, I know I am forgetting some....Trust me, it's a must see epic.
 
Daniel Boone and the early Davey Crockett, of Disney; the early years, with Fess Parker, fired up my brother and me as kids to get into B/p and flintlocks. One was a series and the other was a movie. I know in at least one that he loaded and primed the pan in proper order. Found the original Disney 45 song of Davey Crocket when cleaning out my parents house about 12 years ago.
 
flics

Jeremiah Johnson,all the way to the shootist,and spaghetti westerns to boot Ive got them on DVD......great for bad weather watchin.....cleaning your favorite old colt........besides the stone fireplace,cozy as the set of eldorado...;)
 
Last Man Standing. It's a Bruce Willis movie with Christopher Walken ("Needs more cowbell),
and William Sanderson ("I'm Larry. This is my brother Darrell, and this is my other brother Darrell").
William Sanderson has an old BP Colt. IIRC, it's a Walker or a Dragoon. He ends up giving it to Bruce Willis in one scene.
The rest of the movie is 1930s era guns and is a fun flick to watch.
 
Gray Eagle - it had the Italian actor, Iron Eye Cody in it. Anyway, it was supposed to take place in 1848. There were no shortage of brass frame revolvers in it.

Les Miserables - 1952 production. Trapdoor Springfields standing in for muzzle loading muskets in the French Revolution of 1848.
 
As much as I like the Clint Eastwood westerns not one of them actually used black powder as I recall. Lots of what should have been black powder guns. But nowhere do I recall seeing the smoke show that occurs with real black powder. For example, can you imagine the fog in the restaruant scene in Pale Rider by the time those 4 bad guys unload all their shots at Clint's hat? He'd have had to shoot by brail when he came around the corner from the pantry or wherever it was he came from! ! ! !

Sadly too many other movies also don't have the proper smoke plumes. Some do though. And I applaud their choice for authenticity.
 
One I recently saw again for the first time in many years was Werner Herzog's "Aguirre: The Wrath of God,"which features some enormous arquebus and cannon being man-hauled through the jungles. Off-screen there was also some interesting gun play when Klaus Kinski was irritated by extras and proceeded to riddle their tent with live rounds from his Winchester. Herzog seized the rifle, but you have to wonder who would ever give Klaus Kinski a Winchester!
 
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As much as I like the Clint Eastwood westerns not one of them actually used black powder as I recall. Lots of what should have been black powder guns. But nowhere do I recall seeing the smoke show that occurs with real black powder. For example, can you imagine the fog in the restaruant scene in Pale Rider by the time those 4 bad guys unload all their shots at Clint's hat? He'd have had to shoot by brail when he came around the corner from the pantry or wherever it was he came from! ! ! !

Sadly too many other movies also don't have the proper smoke plumes. Some do though. And I applaud their choice for authenticity.
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The Civil War battle scene in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly featured plenty of blackpowder smoke, though.
 
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