Shotguns in the movies

Terminator II - Sarah Connor uses an 870 in the final part of the movie.

And, as someone mentioned, the 870 in the Dawn remake was almost a supporting character.

the original the fast & the furious:

Vin diesel with a mossy 590 20" in marinecoat

What about Unforgiven? Nice shotgun work in that.

What about Open Range? I think there was a shottie....cool movie either way.

Sawed-off double barrel people killer in "The Untouchables"

El Mariachi/Desperado/Once Upon a Time in Mexico... the infamous sawed-off double barrel pistol shotgun capable of flinging a victim 10 feet in the air and twenty feet back- all without hurting the wrist of the person firing it!

Secondhand Lions. "No TV??? What do you DO around here?"

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Evolution. 3 guys, 3 pump guns, hunting a flying dinosaur-like beast in a shopping mall ..... the redneck game call "ka kawww ... toockey toockey ... ka kawww". Classic stuff!

A righteous shooting to eliminate a public menace with a touch of class at the end. Fabulous.

I believe all 3 were Winchesters, but I'm not sure.

Spinner

That Sawed-off in Desperado looked like 10 gauge!! two of the biggest damn tunnels I have ever seen!

now here is a shotgun movie. it features a QUAD-barrel 12 toted by a big bad law man hunting a fugitive. I saw em blow away a wooden bridge support with that thing. pretty good movie really based on the song by the same name.

Phantasm series-Reggie the ice cream man with his four-barreled shotgun.

TWBryan

Jurassic Park has some SPAS 12 action

Did anybody say my favorite " Dawn of the Dead" ? Scott Reese did the gun set ups and training.

big bad john.... looks interesting. Plus it has jack elam

British Gangster Films

Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrells: The antique guns that the two stupid,inept liverpudians-who were hired by Barry The Baptist,to steal -were either Purdeys or Holland and Hollands.Plus in the scene when The Baptist comes to collect the antique shotguns from the two robbers and finds out that those idiots had sold them to Nick the Greek-there is an open shot inside of their car-trunk, revealing a collection of shotguns and rifles-including some pumps-but not the expensive antique shotties.

Later on when Yardie-boss Rory Breaker plans to waste Ed and the boys for supposedly stealing his cannabis and then supposidly,cheekily attempting to sell it back to him,via Nick the Greek-there is a scene when Rory and his gang are in the back of their Renault van and Rory is breifing his thugs on what to do to the boys-you can see that all of his thugs are armed with riot-shotguns, with pistol-grips and telescopic-stocks,with the exeption of Rory who is armed with two Nickle-plated Walther PPK pistols.They all rack their weapons at the same time and Rory racks his pistol slides back.

I think the shotguns were Remington 870s and Mossberg 500s, but can anyone please varify this, for me

ESSEX BOYS:

Near the end Jasons gang-exept for the driver-are wasted by the two rival dealers in their Range-Rover and the two rival-dealers were armed with Spas12 shotguns.

SNATCH:

When the inept Yardie-walter-mitty gang are trying to rob one of Brick-Top's betting-shops, one of the men is armed with a SPAS 12guage shotgun and the other refers to it as a:"f*cking anti-aircraft-gun".

Oh and I forgot to mention that all of Dogs gang are armed with sawn-off double-barrelled-side-by-side shotguns, with the exeption of John, who is armed with a Bren .303 light-machinegun.

Australian zombie flick Undead where one of the protagonists totes 3 pump-action shotguns that have been welded together.

Completely impractical, but delightfully amusing nonetheless.

I seem to remember the beginning of the 1980's sci-fi movie Alien Nation showcasing a mag-fed pump-action shotgun in the first act.

McQeen in " The Getaway'-- shot it still in the wrapper

"The Getaway" has some great McQueen shotgun action.

"Mr Majestyk" with Charles Bronson has some nice shotgun action, too.

Al Lettieri played the bad guy in both movies. Did he every play anything but a big, mean, ugly bad guy?

What was the PG that Reese pulls off his back in Aliens?
Come on, people, what about Romancing the Stone! I think Michael Douglsa uses a Winchester, but it's a great shotgun movie, with actual reloads and everything.
In both films the shotgun was a sublegal Ithaca model 37. "For those close encounter"

Ford Fairlane

Andrew "Dice" Clay is fighting Robert Englund in the cabin of a sailboat. Tries to get a pump shotgun off a rack, but it is locked in with 2 other long guns. Rips whole rack off the bulkhead, starts pumpin' and shootin' with the whole rig. Very tactical.

Shotgun rounds penetrate hull, boat sinks. While it can't be called great film, I believe that there are higher budget movies, with advisors dripping with cred, that would not show what happens to the rounds that miss like that.

Hit paydirt with KDIRT.

"Treat me like the pig that I am."

Bullitt With Steve McQueen.
He can run a pump '97 and shift that Fastback Mustang...
I gotta get another copy - I kinda sort of wore mine out. It bwoke.

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Ehhh, almost. Lt. Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) only had a snub nosed S&W .38spl. The bad guys in the black '68 Charger R/T had the Winchester pump they shot Delgetti in the hotel with then tried to off Bullitt on the freeway with...

The SG in Aliens was a Ithaca 37 but in Romancing the stone it was an 870. The funny thing about the 870 in RTS was that it was a cut down hunting model because it had a vent rib.

Props to sterling180 for mentioning the Guy Ritchie films.

The only that sprung to mind was Heat and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. I forgot about the "anti-aircraft gun" in Snatch

Don't forget that Pacino grabs the shottie in the end, and there was a different one with a pistol grip behind the hotel counter before DeNiro executes that dude in his hotel room.

Even though I can't think of more specific movies, pretty much every action movie has a shotgun in it.

Walking Tall with The rock had an 1100 or 11-87 used (can tell by bolt release location. Tombstone with Val Kilmer used shotguns, but what models I don't know.
-Mike

Cpl Hick's shotgun was not a regular 37. IIRC it was an Ithaca "stakeout."

Utu (1983)

Watch out for Kiwi film legend Bruno Lawrence assembling and deploying his quadruple barrelled shotgun.