Model 29 wasn't just Dirty Harry's gun....

[rdcl]

The S&W .44 wasn't just Dirty Harry's gun. In another 70's movie it was Travis Bickles main weapon of choice. Very gritty violent downbeat film about a pyscho-vigilante cab driver taking on local bad guys.
YouTube - Taxi Driver - buying guns

 

[slowburninsteve]

Also Nick Nolte's gun in 48 Hours, with 4 inch barrel.
Steve

 

[ladder13]

you talkin' to me?

 

[rdcl]

Don't you just love the clickety-click when he spins the open cylinder? Hollywood.
Gotta wonder where that exact gun is today. I wonder if the film crew borrowed it from a shop.....maybe it belonged to someone working on the film. Who knows.



It is fascinating to speculate, that IF that particular gun circulated the legitimate used gun market years ago......an unsuspecting owner with a pre-owned 8 3/8th, blued m29 might just have the "Travis Bickle" 29 today and not even know it!

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Lee Marvin and Mel Gibson in Point Blank. 4" in original and remake. Sledge Hammer which someone brought up on the forum before. Maybe Chuck Norris in Lone Wolf McQuade.

 

[danski]

Regarding Travis Bickle, the taxi driver---did he truly do that wipe-out or was that just in his fanciful mind? You might want to consult Martin
Scorcese on that.

A companion film to Taxi Driver, in a sense is King of Comedy. Just what
do you see that's supposed to be real and what's actually imagined in a
nut case's mind.

 

[flop-shank]

My gun too, but in stainless. 5" 629.

That cat has cross eye dominance issues.

 

[Farmer17]

That gun salesman reminds me of some of the guys that work at my local gunshops. The Colt .25 he talks about was actually a S&W Escort and the "Walther .380 with an 8 shot" clip was an Astra Constable.

 

[cmort666]

Also Nick Nolte's gun in 48 Hours, with 4 inch barrel.
Steve

I bought an identical gun because of that movie.

I sold it when I needed money. It took me ten years to get it back. It ended up being completely refinished... a VERY long story...

 

[cmort666]

Robert Culp and Bill Cosby in "Hickey and Boggs", 8 3/8" guns.

The ever dreadful Roger Moore in "Live and Let Die", 6" nickeled.

 

[sigp220.45]

Nic Cage uses his big 29 as an interrogation tool in "The Bad Lieutenant -Port of Call New Orleans".

This is how he carries it through the whole movie. I'd call BS, but he's an NOPD copper in this film and in my experience with those boys its "anything goes".

 

[NFrameFred]

I know some of the internet sites list the guns in "Hickey & Boggs" as 44's, but I seem to remember they were model 27's with 8 & 3/8" barrels. Culp carried his in a paper bag sometimes in the movie.

I need to find a print of that - may as well buy VHS because the only DVD out there was taken from poor VHS splices and the DVD quality sucks.

EDIT _ just found out why the DVD is supposed to be so bad - some say the movie was never even released on VHS because Cosby was trying to present a more squeeky clean image and didn't want it released - don't know about that. But apparently someone cobbed together a DVD from taping it off of a TV screen and the quality , naturally, is pretty bad and edited as well for airplay.

Too bad, That's one one I would like to see again.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Regarding Travis Bickle, the taxi driver---did he truly do that wipe-out or was that just in his fanciful mind? You might want to consult Martin
Scorcese on that.

A companion film to Taxi Driver, in a sense is King of Comedy. Just what
do you see that's supposed to be real and what's actually imagined in a
nut case's mind.

That comparison of those two films is dead on since they have the same themes. In both we watch a guy (DeNiro both times) slowly sink into a delusional fantasy insanity, but in the end they both are completely redeemed in the eyes of the public. Taxi driver becomes a hero and the other nut gets his own show.

 

[44forever]

The Pesident's Analyst

with James Coburn. All the (FBI take off) agents carried Magnum .44's.

 

[29aholic]

IIRC the main BG in the movie "Road Warrior" had an 8 3/8" in a PC he tried to stop Mel Gibson with.

 

[bwickens]

Chuck Norris in "Lone Wolf Mcquade".

 

[bwickens]

Dwight Yoakum uses one to get Nic Cage's undivided attention in "Red Rock West".

 

[cmort666]

I know some of the internet sites list the guns in "Hickey & Boggs" as 44's, but I seem to remember they were model 27's with 8 & 3/8" barrels. Culp carried his in a paper bag sometimes in the movie.

As I recall at the time, the advertising copy referenced .44 Magnums.

 

[John Eilertson]

I don't recall which movie, but even "Scorpio" Andy Robinson carried one in an early to mid '70s action fick.

 

[Dr.-d]

I remember in Red Heat with Arnie and Belushi, Belushi hands him one from the cars glovebox. Also I think in Beverly hills cop 2 there was a sighting along with a .44 Automag that the bad guy had.