Hollyweird cop handguns??

[Johnny Guest]

Anyone remember . . .?

In the mid 1960s there was a series called "I Spy." Robert Culp and Bill Cosby co-starred as CIA operatives traveling the globe as a tennis star and trainer/coach. Lots of exotic locales and such. This was the first network TV drama (well, okay, there were some funny places, but, still, a drama) with a black guy in a full starring role.

Culp carried a cut-down P38 (P38K??) and Cosby used a Colt Commander. The latter was a smaller bore - - Probably a 9mm, due to the international aspects of the movie. The gun handling was nearly flawless- - Lots of muzzle control. Coz packed his Colt with the hammer down, and, when a tense situation passed, he was shown VERY carefully lowering the hammer. Both men reloaded appropriately, too. This was the source of one gun error which I noticed: One ran short of ammo and yelled for a magazine, and it appears the Colt and Walther mags were interchangeable.

I thought it silly that Culp used a P38K, but later concluded that this was part of some sort of inside joke. Culp is apparently a real firearms enthusiast. While playing an FBI agent/associate in the "Greatest American Hero" he demonstrated very competent gun handling. Once in particular he was covering some bad guys with an AR and carefully moved to avoid pointing it at a friendly who was moving around. But I liked Coz with his CLW the best.

Also: Who remembers the actor who played Texas Ranger Hoby Gillman in the series "Trackdown?" He had a long barrel Colt SAA to which he occasionally attached a skeleton stock.

Many remember Chuck Connors blazing away with his Winchester '92 in "The Rifleman" series. I was always partial to the supporting character that played the elderly town lawman, Micah. Whenever things got tense, ol' Micah had a long, double barreled shotgun . . .

How about the cop team in "Adam-12" where the rookie, Reed, had his four-inch S&W .38, while the veteran Malloy, retained his six-inch. Both used those ridiculous pop-open clamshell swivel holsters, though.

Early 1970s - - Glenn Ford had the title role as the sheriff in "Cade's County." He packed a two-inch S&W K-frame for a sidearm, but usually had a Winchester 94 handy.

Recently, in the movie "Cold Mountain," the hero picked up a LeMat revolver during a desperate hand-to-hand melee . . . .

OOOPS! Sorry - - I realize CIA agents are not really cops. Nor is a Confederate soldier.


Best,
Johnny

 

[hansolo]

Cool TV Cop name.............

JOHNNY GUEST ! Oh! Uh, er(Checked Bio)he IS a Cop!

Hey, Man! "I Spy" was a quality TV show at a time when "Gilligan's Island" and "Green Acres" were trailing "The Beverly Hillbillys": #1 in the ratings........ I was too young to notice the gunhandling at the time, but, due to the James Bond films, secret agents and spys were all the rage. "The Man from U.N.C.L.E" was another hi-point(pun intended).......Napolean Solo and that Russian with the high forehead......Ilya Kuriakin? The "Golden Age" of Television........now we have "Fear Factor" and "American Idol"

Keep on Truckin'

 

[Archie]

I remember from the first season of Miami Vice...

Rico Tubbs carried a two inch Chief's Special and his back up shotgun was a sawed off side by side.

I understand the network "censors" had the vapors over that nasty looking iron. Which is why the second season he had the politically correct "law enforcement" short pump shotgun.

I always liked the sawed off '92 Winchester that Josh Randall carried in "Wanted: Dead or Alive", but it must have been awkward to use.

From "77 Sunset Strip", Stu Bailey carried a 2.5" Model 19 S&W. And he actually seemed comfortable with it in his hands. (But I was much younger in those days.)

And Peter Gunn? He carried a small revolver, but he was so cool, he could freeze bad guys. And, considering he was bonked over the head an average of 1.75 times every episode, he must have had a skull of re-inforced titanium.

 

[wardog]

Son of John,

I'm pretty sure the gun Arnold carried in Red Heat was a modified Desert Eagle.

Danny Glover used a nice Desert Eagle in Predator 2 also.

Best gun? The Bren Ten in Miami Vice.

 

[Sulaco]

Magnum P.I.
Tom Selleck
1911


Heat
Al Pacino
Colt Officer's 1911

 

[gvass]

hi,
another TV-Cop pistol, which is very funny.
There is a German series "Cobra11-Autobahn-cops" or something (Highway Patrol in English?), where all of the actors use flashy Walther P88 Compact Nickel gas-alarm pistols (dedicated blankfirers).

These are so UNauthentic, as NO german LE use even the original modell, and there was NO such nickeled version of the real one. And sometimes they show even the green-plastic marked empties after shootouts.
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[WonderNine]

Ethan Hawke's LAPD Beretta 92FS in Training Day

From what I saw in the movie a long time ago, I'm pretty sure that was a Beretta 92 compact. You know, the 13+1 model with the shorter grip.

I don't know who that Mrs. Peel is, but she's sure pretty hot.

Why does it have to be a cop??? My favorite screen personality is Juan from Fistful of Dynamite because he uses a .45LC revolver and a BHP 9mm to off scumbags.

 

[Balog]

Mrs. Peel was played by the exceedingly lovely Dame Diana Rigg. She also used to host "Mystery" on PBS.

 

[Tamara]

Nick Nolte as a Colt Commander-totin' Texas Ranger in Extreme Prejudice.

 

[earthworm]

Hugh O'Brian's Colt SAA Buntline Special that could fire fifty (50)
rounds without a reload.

McCloud carried a Colt SSA 4" barrel.Told one bad guy 'That's .38
police snubnose;not much against this old hogleg of mine!".

 

[shtf]

mike larry Bad Boys

mike larry is will smith, and he plays a cop, and in this movie he has a p220st. this was kinda cool, becasue when the movie came out, all-steel sigs(p220st) was not available for consumption by the public.

 

[andrew17]

Nope, Magnum carried a 1911.

Ugh, yeah I was kidding. Thats what the 'Big Grin' smilie was for.........sigh

 

[400CB1911]

ANYONE REMEMBER A SHORT-LIVED CITCOM CALLED "SLEDGHAMMER"?
I LOVED HIS 8" BBL S&W .44MAG
I CAN REMEBER ON EPISODE WHERE HE WAS DOWN TO HIS LAST ROUND & THERE WERE 2 BAD GUYS LEFT. SO WHAT DID HE DO? HE HAD TO MYTHODICALLY WAIT FOR THEM TO LINE-UP WITH HIS LINE OF FIRE, SO HE COULD TAKE 'EM OUT WITH ONE SHOT

I ALSO LIKED BEVERLY HILLS COP. THE BHP AXIL FOLEY USED AS WELL AS ROSEWOOD'S COLLECTION -NOW THAT GUY NEED TO REGISTER HERE!!

 

[orangeninja]

Mississippi in John Wayne's El Dorado...they were deputies of a drunk sheriff...Miss couldn't shoot so he used a dead blindmans double barreled shotgun sawed off about 12 inches....YIKES

 

[Mastrogiacomo]

Denis Franz of NYPD Blue -- he's an NRA member in real life too but not sure what his gun is. In the show, it's a snubby .38.

Years ago, Cagney and Lacy -- probably used revolvers too.

 

[admar2]

I'm a big fan of Serpico and his 9mm Browning Hi-Power.

and this one also

Martin Riggs and John McClain, both with Beretta 92FS's

but Don Johnson's Bren 10 had to be the coolest ever!

 

[Josey]

IIRC, Arnold DID use a Desert Eagle in Red Heat. He had some Russian name for it. The pistol was touted as the worlds' most powerful. Then Belushi says that S&W is. Arnold used that auto loader and the S&W six shooter. I liked the hookers' J frame myself.

 

[admar2]

good one Tamara!!!


forgot about that one!


Nolte back in his "leaner" days. he kicked some serious ??? in that movie.

 

[another48hrs]

Tequila from Hard Boiled. GP-100
Sheriff Freddy Heflin from Cop Land. S&W 686

 

[ProCharger]

agent smith and the .50ae desert eagle

 

[Abominable No-Man]

This has been mentioned already, but Tom Selleck and his M1911 and Al Pacino & Robert DeNiro in Heat (Colt Commander and a Sig of some kind). Also, how about "Walker, Texas Ranger"; yeah, the show is kind of cheezy, but Chuck Norris is always carrying something different. I remember he was carrying a revolver, a .44 mag I think, for a while, and then he was carrying a beretta for a while, then a 1911 of some kind, and I believe i remember him carrying a S&W 945 once, too.

This is kind of off topic, but there was a movie years ago where Chuck Norris played a cop who carried a .44 mag revolver. He also had a cut down (I think) Browning A-5. First scene of the movie is him shooting the engine block of a truck with a .30-06. Anyone remember what it was called?

ANM

 

[Johnny Guest]

An obscure - -

and justifiably unpopular film called, I think, "Cutter and Bone," had S. Stallone standing in the road, waiting for a fugitive driving some 18-wheeler truck tractor. As it bore down on him, our Hee-Ro took careful aim with some J-frame revolver, fired a single shot, and the tractor exploded and burned and skidded to a stop mere feet from the cop. After the laughter from the audience, a voice came out of the dark, "WOW! I gotta get ME some of that ammo!"

earthworm - Didn't McCloud carry a 7-1/2" Colt SAA?

Sulaco - - Sorry, but I must agree with Abominable No-Man: In the movie "Heat," Al Pacino used a white handled Commander.

Several have mentioned Thomas Magnum's stock-looking GI .45. Anyone recall the sidearms used by his sidekicks? As I recall, TJ, the chopper pilot, used a 4" S&W of some kind. I think it had adjustable sights, but not certain. What was the name of the semi-mobbed-up club operator? I BELIEVE he used a PPK in a couple of episodes. And Jonothan Higgins - - - No clear recollection, but logically, I'd imagine he HAD to have a Webley MK-VI or the like. I know he used a handgun in at least one installment, but don't remember what it was.

Tamara: As an aside, that leather rig Nolte wore with the Commander was actually borrowed from Ranger Joaquin Jackson, who was technical advisor for the film. Nolte decided he just HAD to use the real thing, and did.

Best,
Johnny

 

[wardog]

Johhny,

"Tango & Cash" maybe? Horrible Horrible movie.

 

[Son of John]

Red Heat correction

The gun on the cover of the Red Heat DVD is some kind of fictional Russian super gun which looks like a modified Beretta-Desert Eagle hybrid.

The most significant gun fight in the movie happens in the hooker hotel with Arnold using a 44 mag S&W which Belushi gave to him after this bogus Russian piece was taken away by Peter Boyle. Arnold looked right shooting this monster one handed.

Hey, don't try to trip me up on my Arnold movies...

Another bit of trivia info... Clint shot a light .44 special load in his Harry movies not full power .44 mag loads. Watch the shooting range scene again in Magnum Force. Harry says the light special load he uses has plenty of power, more control, and less recoil than their .357.

In terms of cools guns, how about the Glock 18s used by Arnold in T3 and Martin Lawrence in National Security? "I gotta get me one of dese".
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I'm shooting a new movie called "Bowling for Clooney-bine". At the end of the movie, George Clooney has to crawl 10 miles on his hands and knees and beg Chuck Heston's forgiveness for his remarks.

 

[Marko Kloos]

Arnold DID use a Desert Eagle in Red Heat. He had some Russian name for it. The pistol was touted as the worlds' most powerful.

Arnold's hand cannon in Red Heat was the "Soviet Podbyrin, 9.2mm." It was in reality a Desert Eagle with a P.38-esque barrel extension and a rounded trigger guard.

The coolest Hollywood cop/gun combo?

Nick Nolte in Extreme Prejudice, expertly wielding a Colt Commander, carried in that ultracool Threepersons rig.

This is kind of off topic, but there was a movie years ago where Chuck Norris played a cop who carried a .44 mag revolver. He also had a cut down (I think) Browning A-5. First scene of the movie is him shooting the engine block of a truck with a .30-06. Anyone remember what it was called?

Lone Wolf McQuaid.