I watched "Homicide" last night, a flick nearly 20 years old with Joe Mantegna in the lead role. David Mamet wrote and directed, which means that it is not an ordinary police procedural, but has a lot more psychology and sociology in it than criminal dramatics.

Mantegna's gun is featured in a lot of scenes, but I couldn't nail what it was. Short barrel, target sights, shrouded ejector rod. Sometimes it looked like an N-frame, which made me think it was a Model 27; other times it didn't seem that large, which made me think it was a Model 19. Has anybody seen this flick, and do you know what the gun was?

The gunplay in this movie was not realistic, and the property manager let Mantegna prepare a semi-auto in a set-up shot in an alley even though prior scenes had already established that he carried a snubnose revolver.

But I'd still like to know what the gun is.

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David Wilson

I believe its a 2 inch Model 15 with synthetic grips of some kind.

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Yeah, what Brad said. No extractor rod shroud/barrel lug. Trust a trained Federal investigator to get to the bottom of this matter.

And I think the grips are Pachmayr Presentations, normally for square butt guns. The snub M-19 has a round butt, again indicating that this is a M-15. We had those in the USAF, some of them snubs.

This actor also played Robert B. Parker's Spenser in some TV movies, the role that the late Robert Urich had in the TV series. I don't recall his gun then, although Urich had a Beretta or Taurus, not the Browning 9mm that Spenser used in books when he carried more than a snub .38.

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Sure looks like it in that image. I wonder why I thought I saw a shrouded ejector rod.

I may have to check the movie out of Netflix again just to scan for the revolver images.

Thanks for the reply and the helpful frame from the film.

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David Wilson

What 220 & T/S said. Model-15

Mr. Wilson-

You may have seen a shroud on the barrel. Sometimes, movies have several guns for a character and some are in one scene, some in others. The directors must think the viewers are blind and stupid.

Mantegna may have had an M-19 part of the time. (I haven't seen this film.)

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Mantegna also read the Spenser Audio Books, and did a great job, IMO.

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And of course, he's the voice of "Fat Tony" in "The Simpsons."