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

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Don't you just love the clickety-click when he spins the open cylinder? :rolleyes: 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!
 
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.
 
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 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.
 
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.
 
Nic Cage uses his big 29 as an interrogation tool in "The Bad Lieutenant -Port of Call New Orleans".

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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".

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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.
 
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danski said:
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.
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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.
 
IIRC the main BG in the movie "Road Warrior" had an 8 3/8" in a PC he tried to stop Mel Gibson with.
 
NFrameFred said:
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.
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As I recall at the time, the advertising copy referenced .44 Magnums.
 
I don't recall which movie, but even "Scorpio" Andy Robinson carried one in an early to mid '70s action fick.
 
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.
 
I believe the bad guy in "Blue Steel" picked up a 29 after witnessing a foiled robbery. Jamie Lee Curtis was the star in that movie.

I can't be certain, but I think a 6" 629 is used in the Nirvana video for "Come as you are". Could be a model 66, but I'm sure it was a
Smith.

Just watched "Come as you are" again. Now I'm almost certain it's a 66.
 
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John Eilertson said:
I don't recall which movie, but even "Scorpio" Andy Robinson carried one in an early to mid '70s action fick.
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If you are thinking of "Charley Varrick" I think he actually had a Model 14 K-38 in that one. If I remember correctly. It's been a long time. Charley Varrick is a 1973 crime film directed by Don Siegel (who directed Dirty Harry) starring Walter Matthau. Andy Robinson was also in the film.
 
I read on IMFDB that he had a 29. I haven't seen that flick in a long time so you could be correct. BTW, DeNiro fires his 29 left handed in the final shootout of "Taxi Driver." I think he's a righty, tho'. I have one, but havr never tried it with the opposite hand.
 
slowburninsteve said:
Also Nick Nolte's gun in 48 Hours, with 4 inch barrel.
Steve
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Was that Nick Nolte's gun, or was it James Remar's (Albert Ganz)? I knew next to nothing about guns when I saw that movie. I don't remember Nolte's gun, but Remar was packing a huge revolver.

Edit: I have my answer. Remar took it from Nolte.
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/48_Hrs.
 
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John Eilertson said:
I read on IMFDB that he had a 29. I haven't seen that flick in a long time so you could be correct. BTW, DeNiro fires his 29 left handed in the final shootout of "Taxi Driver." I think he's a righty, tho'. I have one, but havr never tried it with the opposite hand.
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On the database there is a fairly good photo of Andy Robinson with his revolver, and it looks more like a Model 14 than a Model 29. Also, not shown, is that at least one of the deputies had a Diamondback, which he wore in a left-handed holster clearly showing the Diamondback's distinctive grip cut that the Python didn't have.

I got "Charley Varrick" today and I guess we'll be watching it tonight. So I will try to SEE if my memory was correct or not. I saw the movie a few times a long time ago...but I did enjoy it and think I am remembering clearly.
 
NFrameFred said:
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.
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I watched Hickey and Boggs about 2 weeks ago on a VHS tape that I recorded from cable ... 20 years ago. I saw it in the theater in 1972, too. It did not hold up well - the movie or my VHS.

Anyway... Culp has a 83/8 29 or 57; definitely not a 27. Cosby has a 6 inch Colt Official Police.
 
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Well, the revolvers in Charley Varrick are Model 14's, not Model 29's. I watched it last night. Incidently, I was wrong about the Diamondback being there, those were Pythons. I don't know WHY I thought I had seen the distinctive Diamondback grips, but the last time I saw the film I was not in any position to FREEZE the image or ZOOM in on it. DVD has changed all that. Good movie.
 
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