Old Western movie where a character has a da revolver with a saa grip

The difference being that a Tranter was a real service revolver, not a cobbled up movie prop.

The thing that annoys me more is continuity errors.
James Bond lurking with a FN instead of his PPK.
The NAZI shooting the concentration camp prisoner with a Luger and dropping a revolver.
 
jmorris said:
Or contrails in the sky/background….
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Of course it's a fake! The Romans did not have color photography, they were still in the black and white era.
 
Now how about the blanks they used, to make them look like smokey black powder rounds? Corn starch?
I think we've found that even Corn starch, when traveling at high velocity from close range can be.....well. Not good.
 
Palladan44 said:
Now how about the blanks they used, to make them look like smokey black powder rounds? .
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In watching old and new Westerns, I think Hollywood with the
4-in-1 blanks has used both black and smokeless powder.

One reason not to use black powder is the smoke cloud might
obscure scenes being filmed and delay what the director wants
to show.

Black powder is also messier and harder for the
films' armorer to maintain. Over time I believe a lot of prop guns
have been ruined by black powder and corrosive primers used
decades ago and then not cleaned properly.

No real incentive to clean prop guns, especially if dozens upon dozens
are used in a film and over a long shooting schedule.

For those few here who may not already know but the Hollywood
4-in-1 is where essentially .44 brass is used and will fit
.45 Colt, .44-40, 38-40 and .44Sp/.44Mag revolvers or carbines.
It's also known as the 5-in-1 if you count the 44Sp and 44mag as
separate.
 
UncleEd said:
It's also known as the 5-in-1
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I thought they were 5 in one for .38-40 revolver and rifle, .44-40 revolver and rifle, .45 Colt revolver.
But vendors do now show them as usable in .44 Special and Magnum.

You can get half and quarter charge blanks if the full load is too loud, you can get them with and without "smoke." I don't see any today but recall mention of blanks loaded for extra flash.

I have seen a few prop guns and they were in poor condition from long use and little care.

John Taffin once bought a prop gun and found the barrel and cylinder were not even the same caliber. The blanks didn't care. He had to sink money into it to get it back to shooting bullets.
 
I mentioned the 4-in-1 blanks because that's the one
I've heard about most although it seems at various times
the blanks were 3-in-1 on up to 5-in-1.

The old 1930s B Westerns always seem to have
nothing bu Colt SAAs, almost no rifles, so a 3-in-1 was
adequate.
 
jmr40 said:
A DA revolver wouldn't be inaccurate for the period. They were in use in the 1870's and MANY of the western movies were actually set in the 1900-1920 time frame. Cars, airplanes, semi-auto guns and even electricity were being used at the time. At least 2 of John Waynes movies featured such modern devices. The Shootist, and Big Jake.

And yet in many places' horses, SA Colts and wagons were still used much later. My grandfather still hitched mules to a wagon for transportation into the 1960's. He never had a driver's license.

This photo was taken in 1923, the same year my dad was born, not 1873.

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Yup, my dad remembers growing up in Chicago in the '20s seeing lots of horse drawn vehicles, and gas street lights.
 
Slamfire said:
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Of course it's a fake! The Romans did not have color photography, they were still in the black and white era.
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Reminds me of Tony Curtis in a Middle Ages movie saying in his Brooklyn accent, "Yondah lies da house of my fadah". (father)
 
There are pictures of Gail Davis as Annie Oakley holding DA revolvers- not sure if they are Colts or S&Ws-with dummy ejector rods.
 
[QUOTEReminds me of Tony Curtis in a Middle Ages movie saying in his Brooklyn accent, "Yondah lies da house of my fadah". (father)[/QUOTE]

Actually quite accurate; That's Old English.
 
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