Recent movies with S&W revolvers.....

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It's tough to spot S&W wheelguns in recent movies (2000's), but I saw a few in the last few weeks.....

"Brooklyn's Finest" is a pretty good movie, Richard Gere is a burnt-out NYPD street cop days away from retirement, and he still carries a 4" HB Model 10 and there's a lot of good shots of it. He even has what looks like one of those old-school Jay-Pee open top, strapless retention holsters.

"The Road" has Viggo Mortenson wandering through a post-Apocalypse wasteland with a 4" taper barrel Model 10 with the last 2 rounds he has. He uses it to take out a cannibal, and the revolver is shown a lot in the movie.
 
I just saw Bad Lieutenant:Port of Call New Orleans with Nicolas Cage.He had a very nice blued S&W model 29 44 mag with 6.5" barrel,Like Dirty Harry.It was cool to see a wheel gun that big in a newer movie.
 
I saw the movie Red a couple of weeks ago - I highly recommend the movie. It was hilarious = about a bunch of retired spies. John Malkovich carried a big S&W (500?) and pulled it out every time there was the slightest hint of trouble. I'm sitting here with a grin on my face thinking about how funny that movie was...B
 
In the second scene of Pulp Fiction, the two hit men are in an apartment shaking down some drug peddlers. Unknown to them, one man is in the kitchen hiding. He pulls what looks like a 6" S&W 686, steps through the door and starts blasting away...hits everything except the two hit men. In the final restaurant scene, the man and woman who stand up and announce they are robbing the place are using S&W revolvers. That's about the last movie in which I can recall seeing a revolver used.
 
There is a nice model 28 in "Breakdown" and though it's not a recent film (but the director's cut is new) "Payback" (which I watched last night to celebrate a 4 inch model 29 purchase.) has a nice 4 inch 29 with factory combats on it.

Also on TV the other night I saw some survivors holed up in a nursing home and one of the young men had what appeared to be a S&W 19 or 15. It's not a Smith but the main character carries what appears to be a nickel Python.
 
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Bonues points for anyone who can nail the -number model of Richard Gere's Model 10 in "Brooklyn's Finest".......my eyes may have been deceiving me but in one scene when he's visiting his "girlfreind" and the gun is laying on the table,it looks like a taper barrel 4", but then later on when he shoots the guy in that apartment, it's clearly a 4" HB......If the movie was from 2008-09, based in "modern day" and he says he has 22 years on the force, he was a rookie in 1986, so assuming he's still carrying his original duty gun, it must be a 10-10? The 10-9 was a taper barrel, and a 10-8 would be too early if he had bought it new when he was fresh out of the academy......also I give credit to the director for keeping the gun with it's original Magnas and not putting some crappy rubber grips on it. This is one of the times when the character's choice of weapon helps to develop and add to the dynamic. Richard Gere is playing the burned out old street cop who's basically had it with the world, and it wouldn't give him that "salty veteran cop" feeling if he had a Glock or something.

In new movies seeing a S&W (or any) revolver just jumps out at you......even the Rock has a .454 Ruger Alaskan in his new movie.

About the only new movies with S&W wheelguns are the ones based in the past, like "Public Enemies" or "The Mummy" which are full of old wheelguns...
 
Not recent movies but I recently watched a couple of older ones and spotted a 66 snub like mine but in the hands of bad guys. I hadn't noticed them before.

In 'Beverly Hills Cop 2" the alphabet bandits in the car shoot Bogamill with one.

At the end of "The Fugitive" Sykes (the one armed man) uses one.

Of course since I've become re-acquainted with my 66 I have been watching the box set of Miami Vice I bought off Woot and have seen Lt. Castillo use a 66 a few times.
 
"The Road"

Staring with Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol (Model 10 with 2 rds) to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food--and each other.
 
the movie "Snatch" w/ Brad Pitt & Jason Stratham, there's a nice 681

also, "16 Blocks" w/ Bruce Willis there's a Model 60

I believe both films are post-2000
 
Robert Rodiquez' film "Planet Terror" is a veritable S & W revolver fest. An earlier Rodiquez film, and one of my favorites, "From Dusk 'til Dawn" has George Clooney carrying a Smith & Wesson revolver that he refers to as "Mister .44." The companion film to "Planet Terror", Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof" features a S & W J-frame worn by a stuntwoman in an ankle holster. The recent Johnny Depp film "Public Enemies" includes a raft of Smith and Colt revolvers.
 
Haven't seen many in movies, but the TV series, "The Lost World",(1999-2002) had Prof. Challenger with a Colt SAA and several other characters with various Webleys.

The most distinctive were the nickled MK VI .455 pair with white grips worn in twin shoulder holsters by Lord John Roxton when he wasn't wearing his Colt .45 auto.

The first thing that new character Finn ( who carried her crossbow in about half of the final season) said to Roxton on meeting him was, "Nice guns!" as she stared at his holstered Webleys. They were, too.

Oh: in one episode, Finny had to use one of those Webleys to shoot at a bad guy. Can you believe that she spun the cylinder while the hammer was cocked? Only on TV and in movies...I think she was checking the loads, but doing that with the hammer cocked was hardly wise, even if possible, in real life.

T-Star
 
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In the remake of Dawn Of The Dead, a model 10 is used by a mall cop. Also there is a model 66 2.5" used on muiltible zombies with a very nice close up.
 
stevieboy said:
The recent Johnny Depp film "Public Enemies" includes a raft of Smith and Colt revolvers.
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If you ever get a chance to see "Dillinger" with Warren Oates and (I think) directed by Sam Peckinpaugh it has the best collection of vintage wheelguns I have ever seen. I think there is a scene where some Cops are shooting HD 38/44's which is the only time I have seen these in a flick that I recall.
 
Carlito's way, Rise the Power the prequel is a true revolver man's dream movie. Everyone carries and uses a revolver. If you watch the original Godfather movie the number of revolvers used is pretty good too. The original "48 hours" was good too.
 
The highly customized Smith & Wesson Performance Center Model 629 revolver used in both XXX movies .44 Magnum. This is the actual screen used gun in the movie.
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Drool....
 
Christian Slater in "True Romance" (1993); the accidental drug dealer who when meeting-up with his big-time, once-in-a-lifetime score and asked by his new girl friend, Alabama, why he's carrying a gun (....which appears to me to be a 4" M629), he tucks it into his pants and emits those immortal lines:

" 'Cause I'd rather have one and not need it, then need one and not have it."

Great movie; even has some scenes with the ghost of Elvis. I probably pay to see it again. -S2
 
Running Scared with Paul Walker. He spends a good part of the movie trying to get a nickle Model 36 back. The gun is shown quite a bit.
 
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