Best BUG usage in movies and TV/ real world

[GEM]

I was just thinking about this when I read the Presidential carry thread. What where the best BUG usages in the cinema and TV.

I suggest:

1. Paladin and his Remington derringer
2. Yancey Derringer and his Sharps

my favorite:

3. Robert Loggia in Innocent Blood. He plays a mobster attacked by a beautiful French vampire. While she is going in for the bite, he gets a snubby out of an ankle holster and shoots her in the belly. Doesn't kill her but let's him get away.

Best real world use:

I have a book about the WTC where a police detective is in a crush against a window with fleeing folks with no exit. He decides to nuke the window but is unable to get to his Glock. He pulls a J frame from an ankle and shoots out the window. The shots were heard by other personnel who thought for awhile that there was a ground threat terrorist attack. It is the book written by a firearm (bald guy - Dennis something - duh - good read).

 

[51Cards]

That Loggia movie was one of the coolest, funniest, most tongue-in-cheek flicks I have ever seen. Nice vampire, too.

Ah! Almost forgot --- saw it the other night, can't remember the movie, guy had a wrist-flick cannon ...

 

[usmccpl]

Some old TV show way before my time so i only caught reruns. Lead guy had something small in a wallet holster. He would get held up so would act like he was giving over his wallet and shoot with it.

 

[51Cards]

That would be a P-3AT in a Nemesis ...

 

[Mk VII]

Elliott Ness & co. holding their revolvers so low down in the hand it would probably get dropped with the recoil

 

[cdsdss]

Miami Vice

Crockett got some use out of his Detonics .45 in an ankle holster when his Bren was unavailable.

Tubbs BUG was an Ithaca 12 gauge. His primary was a .38 S&W. I don't think he fully understood the concept of primary and secondary weapons...

 

[Antihero]

Maverick

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

In "Rush Hour" Chris Tucker shot a bad guy with a snubby in an ankle holster near the end.
Also, wasn't it in Silverado that Jeff Goldblum had a derringer up his sleeve that he could whip out pretty fast (he was a bad guy though IIRC).

 

[yhtomit]

Ice Harvest

Disclaimer: I have not seen this movie, but have seen the trailer several times and would like to see it. However, I can say (and this isn't too much of a spoiler, since it's in the trailer) that it has a funny use of a backup gun: a bad guy, nailed into a box, responds to some taunting from outside the box by shooting from inside of it. This leads to some dialogue which I will recount approximately (likely badly):

[random taunting of bad buy]

[BANG! BANG! BANG!]

Good guy 1: "But I took his gun! He must've had another!"

Good guy 2*, (deadpan): "Must've."


timothy

* Played by John Cusack, whose acting style I usually like, here included.

 

[cdsdss]

Not exactly a BUG...

But in The Simpsons, Apu kept a price gun in an ankle holster...

 

[Vonderek]

one of the best BUG scenes in a movie..."Taxi Driver" --Travis Bickle rigging sliding drawer hardware to his arm.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

One of Charles Bronson's movies (title escapes me) has him playing dead until the BG comes up close, and Charley shoots him in the face with a .410 Derringer.

 

[Jkwas]

The beginning of "Red Dragon" when the FBI agent shoots Hannibel Lector 5 times in the chest after being stabbed and having his gun taken away.

 

[FJC]

I vaguely recall an X-Files from a long time ago. There had been a lot of episodes where they used the plot-device of Mulder losing his gun.

In a later episode, he loses it again - but suddenly pulls out a BUG. Badguy (or maybe his partner) says, "You started carrying a second gun?"

Mulder just replies, "Yeah, I kept losing the other one."

 

[CJ]

Lee Van Cleef in 'Sabata' (or any of its followups). You have to admire a man who goes to a gunfight with a derringer, even if it DOES flip open to have 4 more barrels in the grip

 

[hnk45acp]

+1 Taxi Driver

and I'll add
FROM DUSK TIL DAWN -the vampire killer with the pop up derringer on his belt buckle
and in the extreme example of a BUG
ALIENS -Michael Biehn's pistol grip shotgun when he's told that he can't discharge his explosive tipped rounds from his M41 Pulse Rifle " I like to carry this for close encounters..."

 

[one-shot-one]

long kiss good night

Geena Davis pulls the "bug" from the zipper of a deceased friendly and shoots the bad guy........

 

[Kor]

The Fugitive - Dr. Kimble(Harrison Ford) gets Marshal Sam Gerard's Glock 22 in the drainpipe at the dam, but as soon as he turns his back Gerard pulls another Glock out of his fanny pack.

51Cards - were you thinking of Red Heat? The Russian Mafia bad-guy had a single-shot hand-cannon in a sleeve-rig, which I later found out was originally an American Derringer DA38 double-action derringer that had been fitted with a single fake barrel that had a HUGE muzzle bored into it.

 

[51Cards]

Kor -Bingo! Couldn't remember, it was on only a few days ago. That was the one!

 

[cdsdss]

I had a professor who wore a S&W .38 in an ankle holster when he taught. No one ever argued with him about their grade.

 

[RustyShackelford]

BUG use-Miami Vice...

I posted this before on the subject of the AMT .45acp back up.

In the Miami Vice scene, Crockett is being choked by actor Reb Brown(who was playing a badass outlaw biker). Sonny reached down and unloaded his AMT into Brown and watched him fall into the water.

I do not recall the title of the ep but it was written by pro-gun film maker/NRA board member: John Milius.

If you ever see it on TVLand or the DVD set it's very cool.

Rusty

PS: In later seasons Sonny Crockett used a S&W 6906 9mmNATO as a BUG.

 

[Zero_DgZ]

Actually, Chris Tucker had a couple of good BUG moments in Rush Hour. In his final confrontation with the badguy he gets in the last shot with one. Also, when Jackie Kung Fu's his gun away near the beginning of the movie, Tucker distracts him and draws another gun.

 

[tmette]

I'm such a newb, but what does BUG stand for?

 

[Mandirigma]

Back Up Gun

 

[tmette]

Thanks!