Tom Berenger using a S&W American in a movie

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in the 1995 TV western “Avenging Angel” Tom Berenger uses a lot of interesting guns, especially a nickel S&W American, or 1st Model Russian. If you speed up to 40:30 in the film you’ll see a woman slips it to him in jail. Later he uses it in a gunfight with a bunch of guys. He plays one of Brigham Young’s bodyguards. Charlton Heston plays Brigham Young. James Coburn is real good as Porter Rockwell.

"The Avenging Angel" - 1995 Tom Berenger TV Western Drama - YouTube
 
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Excellent Movie!
Would like to see it again.
Porter Rockwell? Now he was a piece of work!
The range of stories about him are so wild and varied , they couldn’t all be true, could they?
 
THE PILGRIM said:
Excellent Movie!
Would like to see it again.
Porter Rockwell? Now he was a piece of work!
The range of stories about him are so wild and varied , they couldn’t all be true, could they?
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I have a book on him but as I recall it was very biased in his favor and I think minimized his killings. Maybe there’s a better book out there on him. James Coburn even used a cut down “Avenging Angel” Colt percussion sixshooter like Rockwell supposedly did in it as does Berringer at the beginning.
 
In the other great TNT western “Riders Of The Purple Sage” with Ed Harris, the main bad guy who was a Mormon preacher also carried a nickel S&W American but with ivory looking grips. I bet it was the same gun used in “The Avenging Angel”. I remember a Guns & Ammo article about Phil Spangenberger working with Tom Berringer shooting a Henry rifle and the other guns in the film.
 
I especially liked the touch of the lady giving him a box of shells after she gave him the S&W through the cell bars. I would have had no idea otherwise, but for the pictures of the boxes I have seen posted on the forum, but that was a “real” box or a very good reproduction.

I also liked the scene of how to load the Henry. That was on the Ballad of Buster Scruggs too (the one where the lady shoots herself at the end of the Indian attack). I don’t think I have ever seen a Henry loaded on film. (They always seem to have an endless supply of ammo, like John Wayne’s SAA I saw him shoot 18 times before reloading in one movie!).
 
6518John said:
I especially liked the touch of the lady giving him a box of shells after she gave him the S&W through the cell bars. I would have had no idea otherwise, but for the pictures of the boxes I have seen posted on the forum, but that was a “real” box or a very good reproduction.

I also liked the scene of how to load the Henry. That was on the Ballad of Buster Scruggs too (the one where the lady shoots herself at the end of the Indian attack). I don’t think I have ever seen a Henry loaded on film. (They always seem to have an endless supply of ammo, like John Wayne’s SAA I saw him shoot 18 times before reloading in one movie!).
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When I see people carrying Henry’s in a western and it’s a non shooting scene I look for the location of the cartridge carrier tab under the barrel. Often it’s at the bottom showing the mag is empty. But in Lonesome Dove for example, the guns were usually about half loaded in scenes with no shooting. I point this stuff out to my wife which results in major eye rolling on her part.
 
The other Tom used this Shoefield Replica in Crossfire Trail.
It’s on display at NRA Whittington, near Raton, NM.
 

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I THINK I have seen this one, but will watch again this week. I love Ed Harris.
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The little kid from E.T. Is in this one all grown up and handles a horse and a Winchester as good as I’ve ever seen in a western. Ed Harris is great in it.
 
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