Heroes' Handguns in the '50's

[the ringo kid]

With the "K" on the grip, I'm assuming this is Ilya's.

I wouldnt mind that dressed-up P-38.)

 

[the ringo kid]

Geez guys! It`s just movies and actors. They just do or say what the director tells them. They dont have much say on their script or what props are given them. For a short while in the mid 60s I was a studio guard. I knew a few actors and watched them as they filmed. The surpriseing thing was I found many different than my preconceived notions of them. Jack lord was a real gentilman the few minuets I knew him and he bought me my lunch. I had a bad precieved opinion of broderick crawford until I chatted with him. Another I wont mention that I had always liked untill I had occasion to hear his mouth, but maybe it was his worst day. Brian keth went out of his way to do me a unasked for favor.
I seen some well known actors that I didnt reconise untill co workers might point them out.
Its not like the actor knows what gun HE would have liked to carry. There might be 10 grips, cameramen, electricians, carpenters standing there that knows guns better than the hero actor! Yet we seem to think him a expert and many would pay a fortune for the gun he used in a movie! Most were good guys, but I knew a few stinkers.

Any luck in ever meeting James Garner, Jack Elam or Ernest Borgnine? I heard all three great to rub elbows with. The most famed i ever met was James Cagney--circa 1981-82. James Cagney was one of the truest finest I have known even if for only 15-20 minutes.Another good guy to know--was Harry Carey Jr.

 

[glowe]

I don't think that's a 4th Model; look at the lack of knurling on the cylinder release area.

Good eye, plus they did not make a 32 Safety Fouth Model. That revolver is a 32 and not a 38, but I can not see the knurling on the release either?? The First Model had a small knob push down release and the rest had the small knurled circles on the lift-up models?? Maybe it is not a S&W??

OK - I looked at it again and think I see the small push down knob so maybe it is a First Model 32 Safety.

 

[italiansport]

The following weapons were used in the film The Phantom:
Contents
1 Handguns
1.1 AMT Hardballer
1.2 Luger P08
1.3 Walther PPK
1.4 Walther P38
1.5 Colt M1911A1
1.6 Mauser C96
1.7 Colt Official Police
1.8 Reichsrevolver M1883
1.9 Enfield Mk II
2 Submachine Guns
2.1 Colt M1921 Thompson Submachine Gun
3 Rifles
3.1 Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk III4
4 Machine Guns
4.1 Lewis Gun
5 Other
5.1 Naval cannon

 

[jtcarm]

Matt Dillon of course carried a revolver as did Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. Of course didn't Joe Friday carry a couple revolvers on Dragnet?

Fun fact: Marshall Dillon packed a 7 1/2 SAA because anything shorter looked like a toy in the hands of 6' 7" James Arness.

 

[11B Lifer]

True Detective

If I'm not mistaken, Woody pops the bad guy with a revolver at the end. Looks to be a snub nose .357-model?

 

[just jim]

TV and the movies were just entertainment and unless the stars were real heroes like Audie Murphy to me they were just actors. I like the props they used to do their acting even though few of the actors knew what gun they were carrying. Funny how those actors and their guns never missed and never run out of ammo.

I have my heroes, the rest are just entertainers.