Favorite Western Movies and the GUNS in them

[CraigC]

I'm with you. They got it accurate when Court was in the gunfight and only had one bullet. He had a Navy Colt conversion and was screaming for someone to throw him a .38 Long Colt round, which was one of the rounds that the Navy was converted to. I love it when they get it right.

Yep! I was very impressed when I heard him ask for a .38 Long Colt. Standing in stark contrast to the ".45-40's" they were talking about in "The Last Outlaw". Funny.

 

[brotus2]

Henry Fonda's nickle plated 7 1/2" Colt SAA in Once Upon A Time in the West.

 

[tarosean]

The Good the Bad and the Ugly,

The Galand and numerous pepperbox's.

 

[jbrown50]

My all time favorite western is 'Lawman' with Burt Lancaster.

That movie got me onto the Colt SAA Peacemaker and .45 Long Colt bandwagons as a teenager.

 

[Jesse Heywood]

Any of Sellick's movies. He is a stickler for historically accurate guns. My favorite for actual shooting is Quigley. Tom showed he knows how to shoot.

My favorite for screenplay is the visit to Swede Larsen in El Dorado. Olaf Wieghorst certainly didn't have to fake the accent.

 

[hey_poolboy]

"Quigley Down Under" with Tom Selleck! And the gun the 1874 Sharps Buffalo Rifle with a 500 grain paper match bullet. In .45-110 Cal. Single Shot.

Ditto!

 

[reb27]

Lee Marvin carrying the Lewis gun in "the Professionals."

 

[we are not amused]

Hello friends and neighbors // I forgot about some of these movies, thanks for the reminder.

Mauser C96 Broomhandle -- might have been the only one on the continent.movie Joe Kidd Got one manuf. in 1911.

Wasn't a Mauser C96 Broomhandle also in the John Wayne movie "Big Jake"?

Have one of those myself, although a later manufacture date.

 

[content]

Hello friends and neighbors // I've heard that before.

The semiauto in Big Jake is listed as a P38 outfitted to look like a Bergman 1911.
Now I need to look up Bergman 1911, a new one for me.

The C96 is a fine machine, especially with the shoulder stock attached.
I can only imagine the amazement of seeing one used in 1896.

 

[Strykervet]

They had this guy on the Outdoor Channel on Wednesday a couple of weeks back. He supplied the firearms used in a lot of movies including 3:10 to Yuma. Wish I could remember that guy's name.

Anyway, the one I guess I like the best is probably the sawed off lever action used in "Once Upon a Time in the West". That was pretty cool I think, he carried it in a leg holster! That is one of my favorite westerns altogether. But I like the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, they were darker with less Hollywood and more violence and attitude.

3:10 to Yuma had a lot of cool stuff in it though. That big sawed off shotgun and that pump shotgun the one guy carried (who I think was the gun guy I'm talking about --he was the one that supplied the weapons for the movie) when escorting the bad guy in or out of a building, those were pretty cool. That was the or one of the first pump shotguns.

 

[Strykervet]

Tuco's franken revolver in Good, Bad, Ugly. Angel Eyes custom revolver with the artillery barrel (can't remember which movie though, maybe it was Fistful or A Few More).

 

[klutchless]

Open range when he shoots that sighn in the bar with that 12ga and the smoke rolls and the mounted camera shakes.That is accurate to the core.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

I'm going to go with the revolver (that falls apart in his hand) that Paden (Kevin Kline) had to scrounge from the general store in "Silverado". Priceless.

 

[black_powder_Rob]

funny SharpsDressedMan I just watched that movie the other day and I allways enjoy that part.lol
as for the OP I would have to go with "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", I love Blondies colt navy 1851 conversion.

 

[shep854]

Then there's the scene in "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" when, in the midst of a saloon fracas one man nailed himself 'down low' as he tried to draw his revolver from his waistband.

 

[AlexanderA]

The 1858 Remington cartridge conversion in "Pale Rider," when Eastwood changes cylinders in the middle of the gunfight.

 

[RugerMen]

The revolvers in "Tombstone"

 

[we are not amused]

Hello friends and neighbors // I've heard that before.

The semiauto in Big Jake is listed as a P38 outfitted to look like a Bergman 1911.
Now I need to look up Bergman 1911, a new one for me.

The C96 is a fine machine, especially with the shoulder stock attached.
I can only imagine the amazement of seeing one used in 1896.

Darn it, your right!
I had heard of the Bermann pistols, but never seen any pictures. I can see why I confused the two, but then I am easily confused. I havn't seen the movie in years, guess it's time to buy a copy.

 

[gym]

Quigley, 210 to yuma, "last scene".

 

[Dave Workman]

I've been watching a great western..sort of..called "Bite the Bullet"

it takes place in 1906 but I could swear some of the people are carrying Model 1917 revolvers. Anyway, it's a heck of a film, about a long-distance horse race.

But the top gun of all is "Shane"

Nothing is as awesome as that nickel-plated 1873 Colt SAA with the horsehead grips. You just knew that by the end of the film, Alan Ladd was gonna drill somebody with that six-gun.

SPOILER: As it turns out, however, when they filmed the shoot-out, Ladd's gun was a substituted 1917 Colt with a longer barrel so he could fire double-action when he was supposed to be fanning the gun at Jack Palance.
Slow down the video and you can plainly see what's happening.

Great western, and certainly Alan Ladd's greatest role. He shoulda gotten the Oscar.

 

[CZguy]

SPOILER: As it turns out, however, when they filmed the shoot-out, Ladd's gun was a substituted 1917 Colt with a longer barrel so he could fire double-action when he was supposed to be fanning the gun at Jack Palance.
Slow down the video and you can plainly see what's happening.

Rats.............I wish I didn't know that.

The good news though is that with my memory, I'll forget by tomorrow.

 

[WaywardAce]

Oops .... I stand corrected ..... thanx