Movies for revolver fans

[Mack]

The Last Hard Men, Charlton Heston and James Coburn, set early in the century it had some good Colt New Service action. Heston is a retired lawman who has to rescue his daughter from Coburn and a group of escaped convicts. A very dark movie, I saw it one time at the theater when it came out in 1976 and can still recall quite a bit of the story line which is more than I can say about a lot of movies I have watched lately.

 

[jhvaughan2]

Misquote:

Since this thread has awoken let me just chime in on a pet peeve of mine.

"We don't need no stinking badges." is not a quote from Treasure of the Sierra Madre it is from the a spoof of it found in Blazing Saddles

The original (less remembered correctly) quote is "I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges"

On topic, if you are a Colt fan or a Pinto fan you have to checkout Robert Blake's Python in Electraglide in Blue

 

[ACP230]

Did anybody notice Don Cheadle with the nickeled Bodyguard in "Family Man."
Got my attention since I am a Bodyguard fan.

 

[RedBerens]

Red Heat - Jim Belushi's character carries a snub nosed model 629, and later loans a 6" barreled model 29 to Danko when his Podbyrin 9.2mm is taken away.

 

[Scary Gary]

That's a great picture, JHVaughan2! Another good Bogie flick where a revolver comes in handy is To Have and Have Not.

A more modern gangster movie featuring revolvers is True Romance. The plot is preposterous, but hey, it's hollywood.

When the women at work start talking chick flicks I refer them to True Romance . It just sounds like a chick flick. I love that movie.

 

[sjmjax]

For something fun and campy, check out "President's Analyst" with James Coburn.

Captures the culture and paranoia of the 60's and has some amusing scenes with S&W revolvers

YouTube - the president's analyst trailer 1967

 

[stantheman86]

Tubbs in "Miami Vice" (the real show not the newer movie) has a blued S&W Bodyguard. He makes some outrageous shots with it, he can drop a bad guy at like 100 yards with 2 rounds shooting from the hip with that thing He always shoots twice too, after yelling something............ he'll be like "Crockett!!!"....POW POW and drop some guy with a MAC 10 that snuck up behind Crockett Love that show! The two sexy female detectives also carry some kind of snub revolvers, and also Castillo uses various wheelguns throughout the series, the last one I saw he whipped out what looked like a 6" Model 29. It also seems the Miami-Dade Sheriff Dept. carries 6" M28's or 27's......a lot of times when the random Deputies show up to help clean up after Crockett and Tubbs take out 30 bad guys, they have some kind of big 6" revolvers in their holsters with what look like S&W target grips. Look bigger than 6" 19's, more like N-frames.

 

[Scary Gary]

The best movie ever !
THEY LIVE
Well ? It's the best movie that Rowdy Roddy Piper ever starred in.
Amongst other things I seen I think a 686 S&W a 19 S&W and a 37 Ithaca.

 

[Stophel]

"Die Hard". "Al" (Reginald Vel Johnson) drops the last bad guy with his .38 Masterpiece.

 

[David LaPell]

I remember Chuck Norris's Nickel 6 inch Model 29 in Lone Wolf McQuade, but also the character of Dakota with what appeared to be either a 3 1/2 or 4 inch M27 or M/28.

 

[seattleM29]

Alien Nation with James Caan..he uses a scoped Freedom Arms .454 Casull

Escape from NY..Kurt Russell uses a scoped S&W Model 67

the old tv show Simon & Simon.. Rick uses a Model 29 and A.J a Model 66.

Public Enemies..lots of revolvers used in it.

Stick...movie with Burt Reynolds where the bad guy uses a nickel Model 29

I'm Gonna Get You Sucka..spoof movie but lots of S&W's used in it.

 

[DCWilson]

I think the .500 S&W first appeared in "Crank" with Jason Statham, the one bad guy has a .500 short barreled S&W.

Just to keep the 500 thing going, it also appears in Southland Tales as the preferred personal weapon of Christopher Lambert (remember him? So promising as Tarzan, so invisible thereafter...), a kind of military Good Humor Man who drives the streets of an alternate reality Los Angeles selling firearms out of what seems to be a converted ice cream truck.

 

[sniperecho6]

Not A movie but I have been enjoying the replays of TJ hooker, model 19's poppin...

 

[MERV5-5505]

Sorry if this has been mentioned, but: "The Salton Sea" (has a nice homage to an 8 shot S&W) and "True Romance" (Gary Oleman's Pimp character meets his end via wheel gun.)

 

[stevieboy]

Both Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are revolver fans. In Deathproof (Tarantino), one of the heroines uses a Smith snubby (probably a 60) to shoot Kurt Russell. In From Dusk 'til Dawn -- one of my favorite films -- (Rodriguez) George Clooney carries a revolver that he refers to as "Mister .44", probably a 4" 29, although it could be a 22. In "Planet Terror" Freddy Rogriguez fires a whole series of revolvers, including what appears to be either a 27 or a 29.

Also, check out the films of Rob Zombie, another revolver fan. My favorite is The Devil's Rejects, which includes various revolvers, many of which are N frames.

 

[Slyk54]

Maybe I missed this one and it was already mentioned; but I recall a movie with Sylvester Stallone and, maybe Billy Dee Williams as detectives, and I think Rutger Houwer (sp) played the bad guy...at the end, Stallone pulls some monster revolver out of the dishwater in a plastic bag...I have no idea what revolver it was but it was a wild image

 

[clang444]

The Stallone movie was Nighthawks. Great soundtrack featuring Rossington Collins Band.

I think Black Sunday had a great running gun battle with a 2.5" Model 19 in Robert Shaw's hands. Even used speedloader reloads.

 

[pilgrim6a]

Jim Rockford kept a model 36 in the coffee jar. He lived on the beach and said it kept the gun from rusting.

 

[gkitch]

Burt Reynolds actually packed a 3.5" Model 27 in "Seamus" , with Dyan Cannon. Weak 70's movie with a memorable Smith.
"Silver Streak" featured a large bore DA taken from a Sheriff, but I could not tell if it was a S&W or Colt.
Tom Hanks carried revovers in both "Dragnet" (Python) and "Turner & Hootch" (M-13??)

 

[gkitch]

One of the best revolver scenes was from the beginning of "The Wind and the Lion". The anonymous gentlemen tool careful aim before running a bit short of ammo.