Old time TV guns
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mule69
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My favorite guns were the ones Dale Evans carried when she was with Roy Rogers.
The Avengers was made at Elstree Studios - the studio, which was in dire straits financially, like most of the British film industry at that time, only seems to have had a small number of guns as the same ones turn up again and again. A Beretta M1934 (they seem to have had two of these as there are occasionally two in the same shot) and a Colt Dick Special are the most common. A P38 often shows up, and occasionally a Polish Radom/Viz when they needed something extra. Patrick MacNee hated guns, and repeatedly said so, despite having worked in North America for most of his career and becoming a US citizen in the 1960s. His character frequently avoided using them.
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Roger Moore wasn't very happy with them either. He always flinched while shooting them. Liam Neeson REALLY hates guns.
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Starts at about a minute and a half into this clip.
You're right. Looks like a Smith hand ejector.
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Patrick McGoohan appeared to be no fan of guns in the Danger Man show. His character rarely used one. However, his real beef was with the sexual content entering TV and film back in the early 60s. Watching his character fend off the attentions of various hot actresses in character is a great laugh, even today.
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I've not yet watched Danger Man. I have the whole series in my computer along with dozens of others to watch. Maybe next year. How was it? Any good?
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If you remember the series The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan from 1968, Danger Man (broadcast as Secret Agent on CBS...Johnny Rivers sang the theme song) was the immediate predecessor to that series. While McGoohan denied it, there are too many character similarities for John Drake from Danger Man NOT to be Number 6 from The Prisoner. It was a unique series; Drake didn't get along with his superiors...didn't get the girl...and was issued the cheapest equipment his agency could give him. His victories were often at a high cost...he didn't always win in the accepted sense.
The Prisoner was one of my favorites...think George Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World but with McGoohan's character fighting them.
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The Prisoner with Pat McGoohan was the weirdest show I ever saw. I've watched it several times and also have a couple of books about the series. I also have the Jim Caviezel 2009 series too but haven't watched it yet.
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On an old episode of Gunsmoke {is there any other kind} Chester is cleaning Matts revolver. Chester tips up the 45 and empties the cylinder one bullet at a time. They show the bullets laying on Matts desk and there are 7 of them. I always knew Matt had a trick up his sleeve.
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That happened a lot in those vintage westerns.... the actors couldn;t thumb a SAA very fast so for scenes such as you describe they used DA Colt revolvers. Hombre, one of my favorites, has Paul Newman with a New Service in his hand at the death scene whereas when he started the trip it was an SAA.
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I don't know, he didn't have too many qualms about using guns in The Saint.
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One of the best I saw where they made it obvious obvious. Five Card Stud. Dean Martin is out in the middle of nowhere having a little target practice at a windmill. I'm sure that the rancher that was using that thing to work his pump appreciated that.
He's shooting quickly. Pow pow pow pow pow pow. And then he opens the cylinder and dumps out the empties and reloads and closes the cylinder. He doesn't even try to pretend it's not a double action revolver.
In El Dorado, hungover sheriff Robert Mitchum busts through the door of the church and shooting very quickly kills two bad guys. With a New Service with a fake ejector rod on it. But when he's outside the church about 3 minutes later trying to load his gun, and he's too hungover to do it so Duke has to do it for him, it's a Single Action Army.
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Wasn't much he could do about it, it was in the script. At that time he wasn't the superstar he became in the 70's and 80's.
He had one blow up in his hands in his younger days so I can understand his dislike. Don't forget that the British are not just like us. They didn't have access to firearms like we did in the U.S. We are used to it but for them it might be similar to getting
into a 2000 hp (or what ever) dragster and tearing down the track at over 300 mph for the first time.
Why James Bond Star Roger Moore Hated Using Guns
Why Roger Moore wasn't a fan of guns.
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If there was EVER an actor, "out-of-place" in a movie, it was Robert Vaughn!
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He played the exact same character is a cheesy Sci-Fi 1980 movie called "Battle Beyond the Stars".
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Anybody else recall William Conrad's Cannon character? Never missed with his Colt DS (I think) even with his patented squint…. 
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