Movies about guns

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ccsniper: He may have not been a gun guy, but in several westerns you see him with the same rifle/pistol set up.
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The Duke always carried a Winchester 92, which of course is too late for most of the westerns he starred in. It was his personal rifle though, and he did shoot it regularly.

Somebody on this forum (or another?) told me that the Himan Lebman machine pistols used by Dillinger, Nelson and others, were not .45acp as the image above says, but were actually .38 Supers. That makes more sense, because you could cram more cartridges in a single stack magazine and the higher velocity would make the compensator work better.

I've never heard anything authoritative on what the actual caliber was, or if he made them in both .45acp and .38 Super.
 
COSMOLINE - "AFAIK he [John Waybe] never even went hunting.
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I don't know about big game hunting but when I lived in Los Angeles, I had an older friend (now deceased) who was a good friend of Wayne's. They used to go bird hunting together, both upland birds and ducks/geese.

My friend showed me pictures of him and Wayne hunting together, plus he showed me a Remington 1100 shotgun that Wayne gave him.

Big game??? I dunno.

L.W.
 
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith is pretty gun pornorific, same with the Transporter series. Can't forget the Die Hard series. If you're specifically looking for movies centered around a gun, I really don't know any. Quigly was about the sharpshooter, yes he had a Sharps rifle, but the movie didn't revolve around the gun itself (without my rifle I am useless, without me, my rifle is useless). The rifle was a tool which Matthew Quigly had wonderfully mastered. Same with Enemy at the Gates. The movie portrayed the skill Vasili Zaitsev had with his rifle, not that the rifle was better than he was in any way. Although movies do seem different to gun guys than those "other" people, lol. My fiancée gets annoyed with me naming every gun in a movie. She thinks it's distracting...what's up with that?
 
Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico- two of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek's films. They each had a fair amount of shooting in them.

In Desperado, Antonio Banderas wielded twin Ruger P95s IIRC.
 
Most shooting sportsmen know that John Wayne was part of our fraternity, too. The Duke had a very nice gun collection and enjoyed hunting whenever he could get the time off from movie work. Roy Weatherby was one of Wayne's close friends, and Wayne did quite a bit of hunting with the several Weatherby rifles that he owned. Guns were so important to John Wayne that he seldom used the movie rental guns that were provided on location, preferring instead to bring along his own special gun case containing his signature sixguns and carbines.

http://www.shootingtimes.com/gunsmoke/0711/
 
The OP started the thread on movies where guns were a central element of the film, not just another prop. The fact that there was shooting in the movie doesn't qualify it for consideration (and will get the thread locked eventually). None of the John Wayne movies qualify except for "The War Wagon" and "Rooster Cogburn" because of the essential role of the Gatling (and then just barely).
 
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John Wayne's Winchester 92 was in 20 - 30 - 50 (?) movies, so I think it qualifies as a central firearm in movie lore.
 
"Buffalo Bill", the movie about William Cody, Medal Of Honor winner and reputed to have killed over 40,000 buffalo with a breech-loading Springfield forty-eight caliber.
 
How about the Cheytac M-200 in Shooter?

Sort of off topic, but in Hurt Locker, the scene with Sanborn shooting the terrorists with the M107 was probably the best scene for that movie.
 
I thought the OP was looking for Movie "TITLES" which had Guns in the 'Title'...


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Magnum Force is one with the title

As far as firearms which are key parts of the plot, not just props..

The Spanish Judges comes to mind, where the plot involves a pair of flintlock pistols.

Also "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" where a rare shotgun is a big part of the plot

And the semi-sequel of that one, "Snatch," where a defective revolver is a part of the plot.

"Ronin" involves several plot points about obtaining firearms

John Wayne's Winchester 92 was in 20 - 30 - 50 (?) movies, so I think it qualifies as a central firearm in movie
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But never as part of the plot, even as a McGuffin. At least not that I can remember.
 
Way of the Gun
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That was one of my first thoughts when I read the OP. Lot's of good 1911 and shotgun action, some sniping. And a healthy dose of realisim through the whole film, yet still entertaining. One of Ryan Phillipe's better rols, IMO.

And ya can't go wrong with James Caan; "About the only thing you can assume about a broken down old man is that he's a survivor."

Matrix trilogy sure has alot of good gun play/porn.
 
Oyeboten said:
I thought the OP was looking for Movie "TITLES" which had Guns in the 'Title'...
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I've seen or know about movies whose titles were the names of guns and wonder how many there have been. Also movies that were essentially about guns, although the title might not include the gun's name? And how about TV shows that "starred" guns?
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We have admittedly taken license though...........
 
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One really odd one is To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus (Gregory Peck) Shoots a rabid dog with a 30-40 Krag sporter. Not really about guns, but interesting. One movie that has a lot about guns and arms trading is Lord of War Good movie, lots of hardware.
 
But never as part of the plot, even as a McGuffin. At least not that I can remember.
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Wait, no, I'm wrong. In "True Grit" Mady's dad's old revolver, which the Duke called a Colt's Dragoon but which was actually a Walker IIRC, plays a role in the film's plot. Mady tells her dad to replace it, but he used it in the CW and won't. He's killed and she inherits it, and it subsequently plays a role in a major plot twist.
 
Ghost Dog: way of the samurai...
Lord of War
El Mariachi [though more of a musician becoming a gunslinger..] and the offshoot Desperados

Cant think of any movies that are strictly dedicated to the topics of guns other than the so called "documentary" bowling for columbine.

How exactly is "shoot em up" a brady campaign? I always thought it was just an over the top, but very entertaining movie.
 
Gun movies...

Must not be any long-in-the-tooth movie fans here. What about "The Pride and the Passion" originally titled--ta-daa--"The Gun"?

Movie from the 1950's starring Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Frank Sinatra, and a bloody huge cannon. Movie was from the C. S. Forester book, The Gun.

My dad took me to see it, back when. I think it was the only movie he ever took me to see--He wasn't much for movies.
 
Here's an oldie, "Have Gun Will Travel". Starred Richard Boone as Paladin and he carried a handcrafted "Hamilton" (actually a Colt SAA).
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I really like that on this show, they note the awesomeness of his gun due to its 'one ounce' trigger pull (yikes!) and special, rifled barrel...

Amazingly good show though; and decent staying power (eg: watching it today it doesn't feel very cheesy or dated)
 
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