Shane's gun? (the movie)

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Anyone that doesn't know that "jOEY" was Alan Ladds real life son?

Really? His stage name is Brandon De Wilde. You'll see him ten years later as John Wayne's son in "In Harm's Way."
 
I wonder on reflection, if Schaefer's discription wasn't from a side profile, and the spur didn't really end in a point, but rather an edge. Also, did he dream all of this up, or had he actually seen or examined such a gun?

Given some of the stereotypes Schaeffer uses, I think it's highly unlikely that he had much experience W/ his subject matter.

After the gunfight W/ Wilson Schaefer has Shane breaking open the cylinder on a gun he's already described as a single action Colt's Army, to reload it.

I would realy like to see Shane remade as a Movie. Not sure who'd play Shane, but in the book he's more like Val Kilmer's "Doc Holliday" than Alan Ladd's young John Wayne imitation.
 
first of all the roll of joey was played by BRANDON DE WILDE and i dont think that he was ladd's son in real life Dewilde died at an early age. second fact that the real gun used on the set of Shane by allen ladd was lost and to this day never found. this was written in a magazine article covering the movie of shane
 
Some years back I heard a radio interview with Arvo Ojala on NPR. Ojala as some may known was a holster maker, fast draw expert and couched a good many actors on their gun handling for a number of films. In the interview he made a point about the use of Colt or S&W da revolvers as stand ins for Colt SAAs. As others have said the da guns were made up to look like Colts or Remingtons. After all, back then, there were no pause buttons, no videos or DVDs. There were no slow motion gunfights either. The usual movie goer would "see" the actor shooting a single action Colt.

Anyways Ojala said the reason directors had these guns made up was that a number of actors, Jimmy Stewart he mentioned, did not have the manual dexterity needed to draw, cock and fire a single action and then cock and fire again repeatedly as fast as the directors wanted for the shooting scenes.The da revolvers made to look like Colts covered this up. Some actors simply lacked the physical ability to shoot a sa as fast as the directors wanted for the dramatic effect.

There were a few actors who could manipulate a sa fast. Randolph Scott was one. There were a good many others.

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my grandmother actually dated Alan Ladd for a small time and my dad had the coat from the movie and wore the thing untill it was a button and a tassle and figured it was time to throw it away.

and I quote on Ladd "he was a pompous ass"
 
My mother was good friends with Brandon de Wilde's mother, and she called my mother when he was killed, in an auto accident in the Rockies if my memory serves. I am sure Alan Ladd was not his father.
I love that movie. I didn't realize it until I looked it up, but Jean Arthur was quite a bit older than Ladd or Van Heflin at the time.
Hard to believe when you look at almost any good, old, western now, that all the stars are long dead.
People wonder what's wrong with the country. We had Shane, Davey Crockett, and many World War II heroes. Today's youth got Beavis and Butthead.
 
Today's youth got Beavis and Butthead.

You date yourself Virginian. B&B were 15 years ago. I think today The South Park crew or Stuey from "The Family Guy" fit the bill.

Post war western fiction and films began a trend of providing the hero with a distinctive firearm. This is likely the origin of the long barreled Colt with the front sights removed and the filed down hammer.

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