Pick a Revolver from TV or Movie

[dev_null]

Those Dirty Harry 29's shouldn't be that hard to come by -- after the movie came out there was a rash of them in the classifieds. Most of them said "fired once."

Probably the same happened with DE .50's after the movies in the 90's (thank Chow Yun Fat, among others).

I have many of the ones I liked in movies, though that wasn't my reason for buying them... Desert Eagle .50, Winchester 30-30, Remington 58's, etc.

Of the ones I've seen and haven't bought, I've always wanted a P-38 and a Schmeisser.

Anybody remember what pistols Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin carried?

Great thread, btw.

 

[toivo]

Anybody remember what pistols Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin carried?

Wasn't the "U.N.C.L.E." gun a modified P38? I had the toy when I as a kid, with the extended barrel/suppressor and the shoulder stock.

 

[JFrame]

The FIE Titan from Dawn of the Dead (one of my favorite films, to the point that I'd consider one of those junk guns just for the nastalgia)


And Flyboy's Single Six (the majority of the firearms on that film are .22s or plastic blank-firing rifles)

Funny thing -- I've probably seen the original "Dawn of the Dead" 30 times, and noticed that Fly-Boy kept opting for a single-action .22, when he had an entire gun store to choose from. But I always figured that the AR's were actual .223 props -- until someone pointed out to me that they were .22LR's also.

So OF COURSE I had to watch the movie a 31st time, and finally noticed the little bump-out of a .22LR magazine within the faux .223 "magazine" -- I guess they were using AP-74's, or whatever other M-16 .22 clones they were making at the time.


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[jhvaughan2]

The Webly-Fosbery automatic revolver, especially the mythical 8-shot 45 from the Maltese Falcon.
Also featured in the otherwise-forgettable '70's sci-fi Zardoz

 

[SorenityNow]

Samuel Jackson's pair of sawed-off CZ Redhead shotguns in 'Spirit'

Thats fricken awsome.

 

[dscampbell]

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon's service revolver. "I arrest you in the name of the crown"

 

[Prosser]

The Rocks gun from Faster.

Terrible movie, great guns:
Sam Jackson, The Spirit


Dan Wesson .357 Maximum from Predator 2:

 

[JRH6856]

On some (later?) guns they added a loading notch by cutting into the recoil shield. No gate. I wonder if the shells would back out and lock up the gun if you were shooting uphill???

No, the loading notch aligned between the chambers when the cylinder locks up for firing. (MY H&R 923 has the same type notch).

 

[JRH6856]

If you go back and read some of the Ian Flemming books you will find that Bond carried a Beretta .25 because it looked good under his tuxedo, but "M" kept taking it away from him and requiring him to carry the PPK. Don't think they ever mentioned that in the movies.

In Dr. No, the first Bond movie, M takes his Beretta and makes him carry the PPK. In the books, the Beretta is a .25 with a silencer carried in a chamois shoulder holster. It hung up on him when he was attacked by Rosa Kleb at the end of From Russia with Love (which was the book preceeding Dr. No, but the movie following Dr. No.) Anyway, in the book he was also given a S&W Centinnial Airweight .38 Special.to have "something heavier". As if he needed it--he carried a long barrel 1911 in his Bentley (which he drove in the books rather than the Aston Martin DB5.)

So if you want the Bond guns, you need the silenced Beretta .25, the PPK .32, the S&W Cent.AW .38 and a long barrel 1911.

 

[JRH6856]

BTW, Bond's .25 Beretta was the Model 418.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

If you go back and look in the books, it only mentions long barreled Colt .45; no mention of 1911. I think it would have been a New Service.

 

[JRH6856]

It may have been a Colt New Service, but in interviews, Ian Fleming stated that he had limited knowledge of firearms and was rather bored with the subject. He also said that he felt Bond should use semi-autos rather than revolvers. So while he didn't say explicitly, my guess was that he was thinking of a 1911 which was the most common "Colt .45" during the war. The Colt New Service Revolvers used by the UK in WWI and WII, were .455 ELEY, not .45 Colt. From the actual information in the books, it could just as easily be a SAA as an New Service or 1911.

As an example of Flemming's lack of firearms knowledge, Bond was supposedly issued the Centennial Airweight with a 1 7/8" barrel for "long-range use". His PPK would have been just as suitable.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

I'm still leaning towards the big.45 revolver, as Ian writes about a cut down Colt Police Positive .38 for Bond in the first book, "Casino Royale", so he wasn't totally opposed to revolvers. The Beretta makes it's entrance a little later in the book.

 

[JRH6856]

If building a collection, get both. At least its an excuse to get another gun.

 

[Montenegrin]

1851 ''Man With No Name''.Had it (Uberti replica) but sold it.There is no gun that points better.

 

[jpdopes]

Lee Marvin's 4" model 29 in Point Blank.

 

[Carl Levitian]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Matt Dillon's stag handle Colt SAA!

 

[Cokeman]

Pictures, not descriptions.

 

[Stophel]

Quote:
On some (later?) guns they added a loading notch by cutting into the recoil shield. No gate. I wonder if the shells would back out and lock up the gun if you were shooting uphill???
No, the loading notch aligned between the chambers when the cylinder locks up for firing. (MY H&R 923 has the same type notch).
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I mean as you're cocking the gun and the cylinder is rotating, I wonder if a shell could back out as it passes the notch.

 

[JRH6856]

I mean as you're cocking the gun and the cylinder is rotating, I wonder if a shell could back out as it passes the notch.

Ah. well, I can't speak for the larger calibers, but on my .22, the shells fit tightly in he chambers even before they are fired. I can take the cylinder out, turn in vertical and shake it, tap it, whatever, and the shells don't fall out.

 

[Shawn Grear]

Clint Eastwood's charater Ben Shockley's S&W model 66 , 2.5 in Bbl . he uses in the Gauntlet .

 

[JRH6856]

This one:
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Knight_Revolver_Rifle

 

[CSA 357]

well i would take most any of those single actions off the old westerns, you could shoot all day and never reload!

 

[AFDavis11]

Absolutely go nuts over the Model 29, 4 inch barreled, .44 carried by Nick Nolte in 48 hours.

 

[Crossfire]

AFDavis11

I have a nickle plated S&W 29 4 inch barrel. I fired it a few times and then sent it off and had it Magna-Ported. It's amazing how much the magna-port helps control muzzle jump. The gun fired at night makes for some pretty spectacular photographs. And is very accurate. It carries well in either a belt or shoulder holster. I carved my own wrap-around grips and it fits my hand better than the originals.

I have put over two thousand rounds through it, and have taken several cottontail rabbits for the frying pan. I wouldn't trade it for anything.