Humble Model 10 S&W stars in post-apocalyptic flick, "The Road"

[ConditionOne]

Screenshot from the movie trailer,starring Viggo Mortensen. Looks like a pencil-barrel version to me. In a an age of tupperware pistols, its great to see a classic take the stage for once.

I haven't read the book, but I hear it's pretty grim. In the book the father only has two rounds left when he and his son makes their journey.

Trailer can be viewed here:

The Road - In Theaters November 25 - Official Site

 

[panamajack310]

Man that looks like a good movie. Oh yeah! The model 10..They were great in the 1960's, thehy are still great and will be great in the future...

 

[GoHogs]

"Grim" is an understatement in describing the book "The Road".
Glad to see the revolver, which plays a prominent role in the book, is a S&W in the movie. The manufacturer is never identified in the book.
And the screen captures/trailer sure look faithful to the book also.

 

[jkc]

No details of the revolver are ever mentioned in the book. Obliquely, there is mention of some .45 ACP ammo, which does not fit the revolver in question... I'm looking forward to the movie release. I've read and reread the book --- its muy creepy...

 

[snakeman32]

I am gonna have to go see that. On a side note, some of the tornado footage that was in the trailer is of a tornado that was by Wichita,Ks. I saw that tornado in person and it was big. It ended up being an F5 tornado.


snakeman

 

[Grayfox]

Definately gonna have to see that one. I think I'll go out this weekend and look for the book.

 

[HoosierMike]

Ditto on have to see it. And, you could do alot worse than a good model 10 in a bad situation. Not my first choice by far, but not bad.

 

[rm06]

I believe in the book it was described as a nickel plated pistol? I just read it recently in a night and a half. I was planning on reading it on my long plane trip home after a week of being away on business but the book pulled me in and I couldn't put it down.

Grim indeed, I'd add tragic as well. I've read a review that described it as "soul-shattering".

 

[winter1857]

I had DREAMS about the characters after I read the book. Grim and brutal and still beautifully written. His books No Country For Old Men and Blood Meridian were like that too.

I don't particularly want to see the movie. The book spooked me more than enough.

 

[sw44spl]

yes it seems like it will be good i will go see it.

 

[Big Mike]

I have read the book and it is grim. i believe the book references his revolver as being a Ruger, though no mention as to what model.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Like many of you, I couldn't put it down. He is a tremendously powerful writer, going back to All the Pretty Horses. I seem to recall that the gun was a .32 or .38 nickeled S&W top break revolver. I do remember Papa finding a box of .45 ACP and another of .30-30, and thinking that maybe he could take the powder and primer from one of the .45 rounds, reload the cases from his spent revolver rounds, and making bullets by shaving down the .45 bullets until they fit the .30-something cases. Good idea, except that the .30-somethings take small pistol primers, and the .45 ACP takes large pistol. That, and the problem of how, in the absence of even a hand press with suitable dies, to get a live primer out of the case it has been pressed into, and re-inserted into a new case without deforming it beyond usability.

I will try to find the exact reference to the type of revolver, but the book is 287 pages in paperback.

On one level the story is very grim. But, on another, it is the story of a father's unending love for his child, for life, and how he communicates those core values to his son through word and deed in perhaps the worst circumstances imaginable.

In these days when so many "adults" seem to have no idea what a real man is, and so many young boys go adrift as a result, this story was inspiring.


Bullseye

 

[phils]

Is that the one that hit Anderson Ks. in the 1990s?
I was in Wichita a week or two after and it was over a mile wide, and devastating.

 

[Grayfox]

Very powerful book indeed. I bought the book yesterday and started reading this morning. Finished it a few minutes ago. Highly unusual for me to read an entire book in one day, but I just couldn't put it down.
Can't wait for the movie!

BTW: the book never did mention the brand of the Man's revolver. It did make one reference to it being "shiney".

 

[sigp220.45]

The Road is one of my all-time favorite books. I can't wait for the movie.

Blood Meridien was fantastic, too.

 

[ConditionOne]

Another Pix of Viggo with S&W

 

[Dave Swaffield]

Personally, I will have a 'thing' for model 10's my whole life. First issue in 1971 in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Sheriff's Department was a model 10 light barrel. Was issued a model 10 HB when a Cleveland Policeman (still have that one - never going anywhere.) Carried the HB until we were issued S&W 5903's in 1989 - no complaint with that pistol, either.
Have been very lucky with all my issued handguns throughout my career. Both sons are Marines (like their father and grandfather) and both want to be police officers, also. Makes me real proud.
I find I get way more emotional after I turned 60; not ashamed of it.
Semper fi,

Dave Swaffield

 

[phils]

Dave, I'm a buckeye too, now transplanted.

 

[valkyriekl]

looks like a Kevin Costner post-Apocalypse movie...but better.

 

[Gary1911A1]

After reading all your posts I'm going to have to buy the book and see the movie too. I had a Model 10 that was surplus from the Ohio State Patrol and we had the Model 10 and 64 in Corrections. I let the Model 10 go, but still have a 64. Good revolvers.