Revolver-carrying luddites in fiction
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Boondock Saints is littered with revolvers.
Rocco's Python
Il Duce with a 629 and 686
Det. Greenly's M19
Referenced from:
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Boondock_saints
Rocco's Python
Il Duce with a 629 and 686
Det. Greenly's M19
Referenced from:
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Boondock_saints
g_one
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http://www.imfdb.org is a great source - Internet Movie Firearms Database - it's user/volunteer modded like Wikipedia but it's awesome for finding that one thing in that one movie that one guy was packing.
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My Name Is Earl Heaters...
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Adam-12 Roscoes...
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Once Upon a Time in the West SAAs...
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Those don't count man as both are using weapons that are appropriate and contemporary for the time period.
Now if they were using flintlock or percussion guns, they'd count.
Now if they were using flintlock or percussion guns, they'd count.
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Yeah - maybe time to revgisit the definition of "luddite"...
Merriam-Webster:
...one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change
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I saw the Breaking Bad LCR (.38 Special) was mentioned before. I had just purchased mine when it showed up in the show. He buys it illegally for way more than I paid because "the serial number was ground off". Unfortunately, the dealer had ground off the notice to read the owners manual...
Scene from Breaking Bad:
An unblemished LCR:
Scene from Breaking Bad:
An unblemished LCR:
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Lieutenant Kyle Reese; he tried stopping the terminator with a 12 gauge shotgun and a colt trooper (probably not his first choice but time was limited). Later gives Sarah the security six he acquired when he leaves the hotel, like its going to do anything to a terminator. 
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Lieutenant Kyle Reese; he tried stopping the terminator with a 12 gauge shotgun and a colt trooper (probably not his first choice but time was limited). Later gives Sarah the security six he acquired when he leaves the hotel, like its going to do anything to a terminator.
Yeah -- I figured the .357 at the end of the movie (in the jeep) was to preserve her life against any threat NOT the Terminator.
She also had the German shepherd as an early warning system against Terminators.My guess is, her strategy against any future Terminator encounters was "Run!"
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It's funny how many of these are set/filmed when revolvers were common armaments for the period.
Also, carrying a revolver even today does not make somebody a "Luddite".
Also, carrying a revolver even today does not make somebody a "Luddite".
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Starsky and Hutch one had a S&W 59, and the other a 6" Python
Matt Dillon - in the opening scene of Gusmoke always fot that
7 1/2" Colt SAA out and shot the BG every show for 20 years!
early James Bond / Sean Connery had his Walther PPK and his
CIA contact Felix Leiter arried a Snubbie revolver
Indiana Jones had the Pre-WWII S&W 1917?
Most of the Detective TV series of the 60s into the '70s
carried snubbie.
Jack Webb during tyhe filiming of the tv series Dragnet
he discovered his prop snubbie was a Colt and LAPD
used S&Ws so he made the propp dept. get the right
make gun for him and his partner. Frank Gannon.
played in later seasons by Henry err, Harry Morgan
and in an episoe of Star Trek when they are stuck in
the 1920s, Scottie gets a hold ofa big N frame S&W
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Matt Dillon - in the opening scene of Gusmoke always fot that
7 1/2" Colt SAA out and shot the BG every show for 20 years!
early James Bond / Sean Connery had his Walther PPK and his
CIA contact Felix Leiter arried a Snubbie revolver
Indiana Jones had the Pre-WWII S&W 1917?
Most of the Detective TV series of the 60s into the '70s
carried snubbie.
Jack Webb during tyhe filiming of the tv series Dragnet
he discovered his prop snubbie was a Colt and LAPD
used S&Ws so he made the propp dept. get the right
make gun for him and his partner. Frank Gannon.
played in later seasons by Henry err, Harry Morgan
and in an episoe of Star Trek when they are stuck in
the 1920s, Scottie gets a hold ofa big N frame S&W
Randall
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RE: Post #10 states:
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The stereotypical old white Irish cop on law and order is another. His name escapes me at the moment...
Lennie Briscoe, played by Jerry Orbach. He was an uncle of one of my good friends. Decent fella in real life from what I've heard. Never got to meet him."
Lennie Briscoe, was not (apology) 'Irish'. He was Jewish. Yes, he was the old cop to the younger and Irish Logan. Later, another mustachioed fellow, was a nickel plated revolver wielder.
Jerry Ohrbach, was a man of incredible talent, from the Broadway show, "The Fantastiks", ("Try to remember ..."), through L and O, the voice over for the candelabra in Beauty and the Beast, and others as well. He, also, did have a line of suits going for him, as well.
A scripted one-liner he spoke, has stuck with me, and I'm sure you can relate, in your own time and place: "Ah yes, I spent a year there, one weekend."
His LandO piece, was a standard SandW Model 36, well hidden on his lanky frame.
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The stereotypical old white Irish cop on law and order is another. His name escapes me at the moment...
Lennie Briscoe, played by Jerry Orbach. He was an uncle of one of my good friends. Decent fella in real life from what I've heard. Never got to meet him."
Lennie Briscoe, was not (apology) 'Irish'. He was Jewish. Yes, he was the old cop to the younger and Irish Logan. Later, another mustachioed fellow, was a nickel plated revolver wielder.
Jerry Ohrbach, was a man of incredible talent, from the Broadway show, "The Fantastiks", ("Try to remember ..."), through L and O, the voice over for the candelabra in Beauty and the Beast, and others as well. He, also, did have a line of suits going for him, as well.
A scripted one-liner he spoke, has stuck with me, and I'm sure you can relate, in your own time and place: "Ah yes, I spent a year there, one weekend."
His LandO piece, was a standard SandW Model 36, well hidden on his lanky frame.
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In Blue Bloods, Tom Selleck's Character, Police Commissioner Reagan carries a Colt Detective Special, a Fitz gun at that, complete with cutaway trigger guard. Talk about Luddite. It's described in an early episode as having been his father's or grandfather's revolver.
Lucky Derby
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Sylvester Stalone carries a S&W 686 as a NJ police chief in Cop Land.
TRX
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>Jim Rockford used a S&W Model 19 Combat Magnum, he
>also kept a Colt Official Police in his trailer.
...and in several episodes, he was shown fishing it out of the cookie jar where he kept it!
>also kept a Colt Official Police in his trailer.
...and in several episodes, he was shown fishing it out of the cookie jar where he kept it!
TRX
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>Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer had a Colt snub in a
>shoulder holster.
In the novels I read he carried a "big .45 automatic" in a shoulder holster, sometimes referred to as an "Army .45."
There was a "Mike Hammer" TV series with Darren McGavin in the '50s, and a series of movies with Stacey Keach. I don't remember what the prop departments had them carrying. Tiger Mann also carried a .45 auto in the books.
>shoulder holster.
In the novels I read he carried a "big .45 automatic" in a shoulder holster, sometimes referred to as an "Army .45."
There was a "Mike Hammer" TV series with Darren McGavin in the '50s, and a series of movies with Stacey Keach. I don't remember what the prop departments had them carrying. Tiger Mann also carried a .45 auto in the books.
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I ran into him once outside Carneghie Hall shortly before Sept. 11. We passed on the street and he looked very much as you see him on the show. He nodded as we crossed paths in the Manhattan night. Cool guy.
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The nerdy guy on criminal minds. Can't think of the name of the character.
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Dr Spenser Reid. In early episodes he carried a Glock. In later episodes a 3" S&W K frame, either a M64 or M65.
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Well I did not see it so,
Dennis weaver as Mc Cloud carrying a 1873 SAA Colt, concealed, in NYC of the 1970's
Some one mentioned Firefly. In one scene Jayne picks up a SAA off a guy he has shot , admires it and puts it into his belt while smiling.
BTW the nut ball detective in the Castle episode that hands Castle the snub nosed revolver before sending Castle into an Irish gang stronghold was the same actor that played Jayne in Firefly. He got to reprise a scene from Firefly as he watched the guy that played his former commander in a knock down drag out without helping.
During the 1980's while the Alexandria PD let one carry things like SiG .45 Autos the Washington DC cops where still carrying WWII Victory Model 10 .38 Special revolvers. One night on the Bridge near Iwo Jima statue a buddy with Alexandria PD allowed DC cops to make the official arrest of some thugs he chased on to the bridge after having called them to block the DC end. While standing around one DC cop showed him a Model 10 that the cylinder turned freely on by hand while closed. He had been told this was OK. Another then said his did not line up right all the time on DA firing so he shot SA all the time.
I like to shoot revolvers for fun, even ones loaded with loose powder , bals and caps, and occasionally carry one though my usual carry is a semi auto. If that makes me a Luddite, well excuse me I have some wooden shoes to toss into the machinery.
-kBob
Dennis weaver as Mc Cloud carrying a 1873 SAA Colt, concealed, in NYC of the 1970's
Some one mentioned Firefly. In one scene Jayne picks up a SAA off a guy he has shot , admires it and puts it into his belt while smiling.
BTW the nut ball detective in the Castle episode that hands Castle the snub nosed revolver before sending Castle into an Irish gang stronghold was the same actor that played Jayne in Firefly. He got to reprise a scene from Firefly as he watched the guy that played his former commander in a knock down drag out without helping.
During the 1980's while the Alexandria PD let one carry things like SiG .45 Autos the Washington DC cops where still carrying WWII Victory Model 10 .38 Special revolvers. One night on the Bridge near Iwo Jima statue a buddy with Alexandria PD allowed DC cops to make the official arrest of some thugs he chased on to the bridge after having called them to block the DC end. While standing around one DC cop showed him a Model 10 that the cylinder turned freely on by hand while closed. He had been told this was OK. Another then said his did not line up right all the time on DA firing so he shot SA all the time.
I like to shoot revolvers for fun, even ones loaded with loose powder , bals and caps, and occasionally carry one though my usual carry is a semi auto. If that makes me a Luddite, well excuse me I have some wooden shoes to toss into the machinery.
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