Knives in movies and t.v. shows

[ReadyFreddy23]

Before anyone bites my head off, I searched and didn't find this subject or any variation.

I was flipping channels and saw Gene Simmons on his show "Family Jewels" camping and he was wielding a Kershaw Outsast w/ D2 steel. I immediately knew what it was because I own this knife too and I could read the D2. The show would be unwatchable except for Shannon Tweed. Apparently, she grew up on a farm. She was fishing (caught a few trout) and cleaned the fish herself. I was impressed.

Can anyone else think of some movies or t.v. shows that have used name brand knives?

 

[borrowedtime69]

coolest knife ive seen

the very coolest knife ive ever seen was the one that Benicio Del Toro had in The Hunted. found out that the knife was a design collaberation between a knife smith and Tom Brown. it looks dangerous just sitting still.

i liked the Gil Hibben knife that the Klingons used on Star Trek, the ones where the two blades popped out near the hilt.

in a movie called Survival Quest , with Lance Hendrickson, the bad guy leader was using a knife i used to have, the Buckmaster. that is a great looking knife, but heavy as hell and is cold to hold in the winter.

- Eric

 

[Joe Demko]

I wasn't a watcher, but didn't MacGyver use a SAK? From the dim memories of previews of the show I have, it was one with a little chain hanging off it which would indicate it was a Wenger. I'm quite likely wrong on that detail.
In the movie Platoon, the bad sergeant had a Cold Steel push knife. A Cold Steel tanto showed up in that crummy Michael Douglas movie Black Rain.

 

[sm]

Going back to Black and White TV/Movie days...

Imperial Midet was often seen on beaded key rings.
Imperials with imitation MOP were often an item of the ladies.

Case Knives have been a Tradition with US Presidents for a long, long time.President Eisenhower is most often noted, and a Case knife pattern is named after him.
I've seen him on TV present such a knife, and seen one oh his desk in the Oval Office.

Word is, Case knives were in Rawhide, Hondo, True Grit, Wild Bunch, Andy Griffith, Matlock, Perry Mason...etc.

Shrade-Walden, Shrade, and Camillus were often seen too.
Camillus made the US Demo knife [USGI Knife] so shows like Combat with Vic Morrow , or any "Military Movie" seemed to have one of these knives in it.

Old Hickory Kitchen Knives, were just as much of TV /Movie Kitchens as Lodge Cast Iron Skillets.

More Modern-
Sir Anthony Hopkins used a Harpy as Hannibal Lector....

 

[Boom-stick]

Microtech HALO OTF in '24'

I wish we could have those bad boys over here...


Oh, and spyderco civilian was used in Babylon 5.

 

[John-Melb]

How can you people discuss knives in movies and no-one mentions Crocodile Dundee?

"that's not a knife.....THAT's a knife"

 

[mp510]

There was the Buck in Red Dawn along with the Air Force Pilot Survival Knife.

In Shooter there was the, IIRC, Sog A/0 (something in the flash series IIRC).

 

[hso]

Protech Godfather used by Amanda Peets' character in "The Whole Ten Yards". Silly movie.

 

[Cosmoline]

the very coolest knife ive ever seen was the one that Benicio Del Toro had in The Hunted.

Cool knives, but one of the worst movies ever made. And I say that even though it was made right where I spent much of my childhood.

 

[Nicolai]

In the current series of "Feasting on Asphalt" on the Food Network, Alton Brown carries and uses a Kershaw Cyclone 1630BLKST (a Ken Onion design).

 

[supraneurotoxin]

bear grylls has used a gerber gatorback, sog seal pup, and a buck something or other...

 

[mp510]

Bear had a Wenger SAK in there and a brand name dive knife as well.

Les Stroud nearly always has somesort of leatherman tool. What Les really intrigued me with was his bone knife in the northern Canada episode.

 

[Green Lantern]

Not a TV show or movie, but the knives used by Leon Kennedy and Jack Krauser in the video game "Resident Evil 4" are both very cool. They don't appear to be based on any "real" knives (unlike the guns in the game), but Leon's is similar to the MercWorx 'Sniper' model. One of the best parts of the game is a cinema/knife fight between the two...!

 

[thekid]

There was a knife on the Chronicles of Riddick that was pretty cool but I couldn't tell the brand name.

 

[rbmcmjr]

In the current series of "Feasting on Asphalt" on the Food Network, Alton Brown carries and uses a Kershaw Cyclone 1630BLKST (a Ken Onion design).

And he ate food off it directly while telling viewers "Don't do this!"

The guy is a genius.

Rick

 

[brentn]

In resident evil the first movie, the squad leader lifted himself up in the laser room and the laser cut his kabar in half..

One of the neatest knives I've seen has to be from two movies, the hunted and bram stokers dracula

 

[xring44]

First Blood, with Sylvester Stalone, made right here by James B. Lile.

 

[jahwarrior]

hannibal lecter was partial to spydercos. in the 'hannibal' novel, he bought the civilian and a harpy. in the movie, we only see the harpy, which he uses to gut the italian cop. and i think he used a case brand knife to peel the guard's face and "butterfly" the other near the end of the movie.

 

[Joe Demko]

I'll check my DVD to make sure, but I'm pretty sure Hannibal used a Case trapper with some kind of jigged handles to peel the guard's face off. You see the guard using it in an earlier scene.

 

[Joe Demko]

Okay, I watched Silence of the Lambs on DVD. It was a Schrade trapper with faux scrimshaw handles.

 

[moxie]

Yes MacGuyver used a SAK, at least once each episode the first season. Chuck Norris used a Gerber MK-I in several Vietnam movies.

 

[MVF]

I can't believe nobody mentioned the Bowie in Seraphim Falls. I've read on other forums that it's a Muella, but I'm not quite convinced after looking on their website.

If anyone knows for sure, I'd love to get one like it.

 

[Sunray]

"...cleaned the fish herself..." Not surprising. She was born in Newfoundland.
The knives you see in movies are props.

 

[Joe Demko]

Well, technically all the objects in a scene except the costumes are props. That doesn't mean the prop department made all of them. Factory knives are frequently seen in movies. Custom knives, by either a knife maker or the prop department, typically are mostly used when a distinctive knife is deemed necessary...like in the Rambo movies for example. Special effects people will also make gimmicked copies of knives for specific scenes. A common one has a bladder in the handle that gets filled with fake blood. In the common-to-action-movies throat-cutting scene, the actor draws it across another actor's throat while squeezing the bladder.

 

[mp510]

Behind Enemy Lines: Victorinox SAK