Magnums in movies?

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What is the oldest movie or TV show to have a 357 Magnum revolver in it? I've been doing a search but I keep getting sent back to the Dirty Harry movies. I'm sure there were movies prior to this.

I'm an old man, but I sure can't remember any.
 
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I don't know about movies, but the old Dick Tracey cartoon had him carrying a .357 Mag snubbie.
 
Wendell Corey had a very early Highway Patrolman in 1956's "The Killer is Loose." Good movie - it shows up on TCM sometimes.

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He shoots this guy through the milk bottle and the blast knocks some of the copper pans off the wall.
 
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In the original Dirty Harry, there was a sniper scene with Harry using a bigger magnum, a 458 Win Mag. As a kid I wondered if that would work. Well published data says it will (If you believe everything Winchester prints) The 458 Win Mag and the 264 Win Mag would shoot further than any other factory round something like 6660 yards! (about 3 3/4 miles) I own a 264 and my best friend owned a 458. I'll can do some good stuff with the 264, my groups with the 458 weren't very 'Sniper like" beyond 100 yards!

Ivan
 
Ivan the Butcher said:
In the original Dirty Harry, there was a sniper scene with Harry using a bigger magnum, a 458 Win Mag. As a kid I wondered if that would work. Well published data says it will (If you believe everything Winchester prints) The 458 Win Mag and the 264 Win Mag would shoot further than any other factory round something like 6660 yards! (about 3 3/4 miles) I own a 264 and my best friend owned a 458. I'll can do some good stuff with the 264, my groups with the 458 weren't very 'Sniper like" beyond 100 yards!

Ivan
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Stopped by to overnight with some friends only to find out they were going on a deer hunt in the AM and invited me along. I didn't have a gun, but they said they scrounge up "something." In the morning, the rich guy who ran the hunting club handed me his .458 double rifle he used on his Africa trip. Must have been a $3000 rig. I didn't see any deer, but at the hunt club afterwards he told me to fire off a few rounds. Somehow I managed to pull both triggers--Bang-bang! I thought I'd broken my shoulder. I won't even pick up an empty .458 case now.
 
Was talking with my boy's Marine Gunnery Sergeant/machinist and his young Smith buddies, who talked me thru getting the worn out Colt P2 to work, about a double in 460 S&W Mag.
They thought an over and under might be interesting/better with respect to barrel regulation for long range shooting of a 460 and a 458.

SMSgt, did you leave out a "0" or two? :D

When asked what the 458 No.1H was like, I would reply that it's sorta like a 12 gauge shotgun.
When they would ask to try it I added... like 4 going bang at once but faster.
My Rem 870 SuperMag with 3.5 HVs is fun as well.
 
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I remember an episode of Perry Mason, where a circus clown was murdered with a .357. Lt. Tragg was on the stand, explaining the power of "a long barrel 3-5-7 magnum revolver".
 
Sig220.45 shows what I believe
to be the first magnum revolver
featured in a movie, "The Killet
Is Loose."

A mention of it is made by a cop
early in the film as probably being
an overkill weapon.
 
I made the page for The Killer Is Loose (1956) on IMFDB. It was filmed in the Fall of 1955 (the Highway Patrolman was brand new on the market) and I am the person who identified the revolver as the Model 28. Mainly because it has a 4" barrel. I haven't found any movie that features a .357 Magnum revolver (Colt or S&W) before that date. If there are I haven't found any references. It appears the film was the first one.
 
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I don't pay great attention to the guns used in movies, being more interested in the film itself, so I don't remember the Highway Patrolman revolver or any other guns in the movie.

However, the "The Killer Is Loose" is sort of an obscure film few have seen but it's worth watching - once. It's not excellent nor is it memorable. It's unusual in that it's a "B" movie but with a fairly good cast; seems like the film business did this at times in the '50s and '60s. Several of the actors and at least one actress also did "A list" work fairly regularly.
 
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I don't know what was first but I do remember in the movie Magnum Force where the M.E. looks into the car at a murder victim and says " looks like he used a magnum"
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That’s hilarious
 
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