Movies featuring blackpowder firearms?

[B yond]

What are your favorite movies that feature blackpowder firearms?

So far The Outlaw Josey Wales is my fav, but I'm sure there are some I haven't seen.

 

[Quiet]

Quigley Down Under.

 

[arcticap]

I discovered this Youtube video clip recently titled The Biggest Movie Ever Made! $700 million in Today's Money, 120,000 soldiers. It is from Sergei Bondarchuck's War & Peace and it sounds like one block buster of a black powder movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64UU9AaIYs&feature=related

It is a montage of clips from the most expensive film ever made (in today's dollars the budget would be over $700 million). The movie is Sergei Bondarchuk's War & Peace, made in Russia in the mid-60's, and these scenes are from the Battle of Borodino, an hour long battle sequence. These were the days before CG animation, there are no special effects creating these huge armies, it is all REAL. 120,000 soldiers in period costumes, thousands of horses, etc. No film will ever come close to this in terms of spectacle, without being, essentially, a work of animation (like The Return of the King).

 

[black_powder_Rob]

I love "Open Range", the Man With No Name series, Unforgiven, Pale Rider, The Patriot, the Outlaw Josey Wales, 3:10 to Uma, Once Upon a Time in the West, Crossfire Trail, and so many more...

 

[Cauterizer]

Pale Rider is my favorite...Preacher takes speed loading to a new level with all the spare cylinders he carries on his belt for his Remington .36...inspired my purchase no doubt.. Another good one is The Quick and the Dead...the one starring Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone. Until this movie, I never saw anyone use a LeMat revolver in a gunfighting contest...which is maybe why The Swede didn't fare too well. There's a mix of BP as well as early cartridge arms in the movie.. Keith David's character uses an 1858 Remmie but not to his advantage. and Russel Crow's performance is not to be missed.

 

[Jaymo]

+1 what BPRob said.

Re: The Quick and the Dead with Sharon Stone and Leonardo DiCaprio, I just can't get past the gunfighter girl BS. Or the rest of the BS in that movie. Lot's of good BP guns, though.

 

[Smokepole14]

Pale Rider where preacher does the speed load with the 58 remmy is by far my favorite. Eldorado is another one of my favorites, heck all of the John Wayne movies are pretty good in my opinion. There's really way to many ones to mention. +1 on the movies black powder rob said.

 

[steelbird]

If you want to go really old school, check out the modern Last Of The Mohicans- flintlocks!
Pale Rider is why I got a Remmie.......

 

[Jaymo]

I liked 3:10 to Yuma a lot more than I expected.
Then, there's the new version of True Grit.
There's always the Young Guns pair of movies. Quite a bit of Hollywood BS/literary license, but plenty of BP action.

Last of the Mohicans was good.

Tombstone was fun BP action.

 

[Fingers McGee]

For single shot pistols and flintlock or caplock rifles, The Big Trail. Drums along the Mohawk. The Fighting Kentuckian. The Patriot. Last of the Mohicans (any version).

Am I dating myself????

 

[Pancho]

The Mountain Men with Brian Keith and Charlton Heston.

 

[Cauterizer]

Charlton Heston and Brian Keith put on a good show as salty old mountain men who had a penchant for survival...I believe that old Liver Eatin' Johnson would approve of this movie...

 

[Cauterizer]

The Not So Quick and the Dead

Hey Jaymo.. I was just yanking chains by the yard on that one....even Bill Hickock would've had trouble pulling off some of those shots at the end of the movie when the town was dynamited...much less crosshanded LOL

 

[Legionnaire]

Josey Wales is my favorite, followed closely by Pale Rider. Liked Quigley Down Under, too.

Not in the same vein at all, but thought it was interesting that Bruce Willis had a LeMat at the end of 12 Monkeys.

 

[messerist]

The movie Gettysburg is one of my favorites. The film is chock full of BP firearms from pistols to cannon.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Allegheny Uprising c 1939 with John Wayne and Claire Trevor. About James Smith and the Black Boys prior to the Revolution. Pirates of The Caribbean (any of them) 'cause they're silly, but they used actual BP guns in the movie. Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World because they recorded actual BP canon impacts on oak so the sound effects of the hits and the artillery balls whizzing past are correct. Northwest Passage because it's pretty wrong on the guns, and the uniforms, but they did try very hard. I like the fact that the town of St. Francis was actually a town and not a bunch of plains lodges, AND there is a nice "running shot" where they pivot the shooter and the camera obviously on a turn table while the guy makes the shot.

LD

 

[dprice3844444]

jeremiah johnson

 

[Zombiphobia]

Jeremiah Johnson is a good one. I like the 1858 Remmington used by Lee Van Cleef in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly... anyone notice it wasn't a conversion(still had percussion caps on the nipples) but he had a pistol cartridge belt loaded with copper jacketed bullets?

I don't recall seeing any BP guns in Tombstone, though. It was still a good movie.

There was an Australian movie where some guy is being chased down by a group of vigilantes carrying BP pistols, most looking like 1851 Navy's, but I can't remember the name of the movie.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Are we restricting black powder firearms to muzzleloaders and cap'n'ball revolvers, or are we including black powder cartridge firearms as well?

 

[Loosenock]

"Sergeant York" with Gary Cooper. The turkey shoot scene was classic.

'Loose

 

[Old Cannonballs]

It's been 20 years since I saw it, but I think Dances with Wolves has a scene early on where someone — I'm thinking it was the Kevin Costner character — loads a black powder revolver. They show it close up in glorious detail. The only other scene with loading a bp revolver that I can remember is in — was it a John Wayne movie? Dang, I miss my memory — anyway, it showed a woman trying to load a Walker in the middle of being attacked by some wolves or a mountain lion or some such critter — but no close up; you couldn't really see what was happening very well, except that she was having trouble loading the sucker.

 

[darkerx]

I have seen some trailer...Cowboys vs aliens... I believe having seen an open top colt...

 

[duelist1954]

I like "Last of The Mohicans" and "The Patriot"

 

[Grousefeather]

movies

I like, Last of the Mohicans, Josey Wales, and the Long Riders.

 

[Cosmoline]

On a more obscure note, I offer "Black Robe" a 1991 Canadian film featuring matchlocks and some decent combat.

Also the Malick flick "The New World" which also featured
matchlocks.

"Master and Commander," though a pale imitation of the novels, had some fine nautical BP combat.

Many Civil War pics of course. "Glory" probably being the best.

I've heard "Ride with the Devil" had accurate BP arms but I've never gotten around to watching it.

But I'm afraid few of the many three musketeers movies ever featured muskets. One of life's mysteries I suppose.