Quiz: Spot that S&W on TV/Movies

[Doug.38PR]

Just for fun,
I am going to list a group of popular and classic S&Ws. Y'all copy and paste that list and add to it under each name as many movies and tv shows as you can think of in which these guns appeared and which characters/actors carried or used them:

Model 10

Model 13

Model 15

Model 14

Model 19

Model 25

Model 27

Model 28

Model 29 (I know this is a tough one

)

Heavy Duty .38/44

Model 36

Model 37

Model 57

Model 58

Model 586

Model 686


These are open to debate

 

[Doug.38PR]

Just for fun,
I am going to list a group of popular and classic S&Ws. Y'all copy and paste that list and add to it under each name as many movies and tv shows as you can think of in which these guns appeared and which characters/actors carried or used them:

Model 10

Model 13

Model 15

Model 14

Model 19

Model 25

Model 27

Model 28

Model 29 (I know this is a tough one

)

Heavy Duty .38/44

Model 36

Model 37

Model 57

Model 58

Model 586

Model 686


These are open to debate

 

[S. Hammer]

You forgot one. Model 681. Prominent in the movie Snatch. Sold to Tommy by Boris the Blade.

 

[kmyers]

Didn't Brody carry a model 15 in Jaws?

 

[Texas Star]

Originally posted by kmyers:
Didn't Brody carry a model 15 in Jaws?

That he did! And loaded up some ammo with garlic or something, in hopes of achieving greater lethality on the shark. May have been mercury. I think the audience was supposed to think the bullets were explosive or poisonous.

I need to watch, "Jaws" again, although the book was quite a bit better. But film has that visual impact...


Most cop and private eye shows from the mid-1950's-on used Model 36's. Examples included,"Bourbon Street Beat", "77 Sunset Strip", "Hawaii Five-O", and "Peter Gunn."

(Some of these shows also showed the cast with Colts in some episodes.)

I think M-10's were used by Heather Locklear and some others on, "T.J. Hooker", but Wm. Shatner had a Colt MK III .357, if memory serves. At least one M-10 was on, "Soldier of Fortune", carried by a senior cop in, I think, Columbia.

"Adam 12" had both Model 14's and Model 15's, the latter in later episodes. This reflected changes in LAPD issues.

I have a vague rcollection that Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. used a snub M-19 in "The FBI".

The M-66 wasn't listed by the OP, but one figured very prominently in, "Broken Arrow", a Travolta film. The cute female park ranger had it. It was in many scenes throughout most of the movie.

"Bourbon Street Beat" had a M-27 or pre-27 in the office safe. 3.5-inch barrel.The PI's took it out when they wanted something more potent than their snub .38's.

I really don't recall the other models listed as being used much. Of course, how are you going to distinguish between a M-36 and a M-37 on screen?

Oh: "RCMP" used M-10's in the episodes that I saw, which were made before the M-5946 (?) replaced revolvers on the Force. I've only seen this Canadian show on a sporadic basis, and not recently. One scene that really stuck with me was when a constable told a drunk smart alec guy to get out of a car, or he'd shoot him. In the US, that would have been murder, had he done it. I interfaced with the RCMP from an air base (USAF) in Canada, and can tell you, the Mounties left the impression that they were much more feared than are most American cops. With good cause!

I'll leave the M-29 to someone else. I think we all know it's main claim to film stardom, though.

Doug, I'm sorry. This just seemed the better way to answer your question. Maybe someone else will use your chart.

 

[danski]

Contrary to popular belief, Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" movies actually carried a 6-inch Model 19, though it was said to be something else.

That something else would have dwarfed Eastwood who is nearly dwarf sized in real life and it would have looked foolish for him to carry anything larger than the Model 19.

The script and camera angles took care of the illusion that he had something else.

Danski

 

[OFT]

Originally posted by danski:
Contrary to popular belief, Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" movies actually carried a 6-inch Model 19, though it was said to be something else.

That something else would have dwarfed Eastwood who is nearly dwarf sized in real life and it would have looked foolish for him to carry anything larger than the Model 19.

The script and camera angles took care of the illusion that he had something else.

Danski

If 6'2" is dwarf size then I must be a pixie.

 

[sjmjax]

Model 29 - perhaps a little known reference.

President's Analyst w/ James Coburn 1967

One of my favorite movies of that era. S&W's also featured in some other very funny scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcJP2qZ5UTM

 

[153]

Artie Johnson calls for 44 Mags, but that revolver looks to me like a pre-war Registered .357!!!!

 

[ischia]

I worked in Hollywood in the early 1970's with Clint Eastwood on some stuff. Mostly riding and falling down stairs as his double(from a distance) I was around 210lbs. at 6'5". Clint was 6'4" easy back then,but under 200lbs.Very lean. Really a nice guy talked to everyone. A midget? Stallone! He Could have sued the city for building the sidewalk to close to his ass(and he was a big one) Maybe 5'5" in heels.

SW

 

[fyimo]

Originally posted by danski:
Contrary to popular belief, Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" movies actually carried a 6-inch Model 19, though it was said to be something else.

That something else would have dwarfed Eastwood who is nearly dwarf sized in real life and it would have looked foolish for him to carry anything larger than the Model 19.

The script and camera angles took care of the illusion that he had something else.

Danski

I had heard that it wasn't a model 29-2 that was used in the movie "Dirty Harry" but a Model 57 41 Magnum. That would make sense as I just watched the movie and there are several scenes were you see the end of the barrel and the hole is certainly larger then 357 but a 41 could pass as a 44.

 

[Texas Star]

Ads for a movie, "Telephon", showed Charles Bronson with an M-28, and the Arab terrorist in, "Black Sunday" had one in the scene where he was being pursued along a beach by Robert Shaw's character.

Both of these guns had four-inch barrels.

The movie of Fleming's, "Live and Let Die" had Roger Moore (James Bond) with several S&W's. He is holding a Model 10, four-inch standard barrel, on the cover of his autobiography. ("My Word is My Bond.")I bought a used copy last week, and the gun leaped out at me. It is also shown in the photo section.

A female CIA agent in that film had a snub M-19, but Bond referred to it as "a custom .38." I laughed at the time, but we now know that S&W has made some .357's in .38, for special sales.
Still, I think that was a movie gaffe.

T-Star

 

[Doug.38PR]

quote:
Originally posted by kmyers:
Didn't Brody carry a model 15 in Jaws?



That he did! And loaded up some ammo with garlic or something, in hopes of achieving greater lethality on the shark. May have been mercury. I think the audience was supposed to think the bullets were explosive or poisonous.

I need to watch, "Jaws" again, although the book was quite a bit better. But film has that visual impact...

He carried a Model 15 in both Jaws and Jaws 2. Texas Star, you are think of Jaws 2 in regard to the poison in the hollow points. He was dropping some kind of poison into semi-jacketed hollowpoints and capping them with wax. He used them to shoot up a school of bluefish on the beach thinking it was a shark.
In the first one he unloaded his Model 15 into the shark as it swam past Quint's boat at one point. Little effect except to make the shark bleed a bit

 

[Texas Star]

Originally posted by Doug.38PR:

quote:
Originally posted by kmyers:
Didn't Brody carry a model 15 in Jaws?



That he did! And loaded up some ammo with garlic or something, in hopes of achieving greater lethality on the shark. May have been mercury. I think the audience was supposed to think the bullets were explosive or poisonous.

I need to watch, "Jaws" again, although the book was quite a bit better. But film has that visual impact...

He carried a Model 15 in both Jaws and Jaws 2. Texas Star, you are think of Jaws 2 in regard to the poison in the hollow points. He was dropping some kind of poison into semi-jacketed hollowpoints and capping them with wax. He used them to shoot up a school of bluefish on the beach thinking it was a shark.
In the first one he unloaded his Model 15 into the shark as it swam past Quint's boat at one point. Little effect except to make the shark bleed a bit

Thanks. I think the only wayto kill a big shark with a .38 would be to use a hard-cast SWC bullet with a Plus P load, and fire directly down into that Y-shaped brain. Whether this would suffice on a shark THAT big is highly questionable.

Elmer Keith once went on a trip where he shot at sharks with his .44 Magnum. He said that his basic load of a hard lead SWC at some 1400 FPS worked better than factory softpoint loads. He said that the latter tended to glance off the surface of the ocean more, I think.

But unless a shark is alongside, shooting at it with a handgun is probably useless.

My son killed one gray reef shark with a knife, and I've encountered other cases of sharks being knifed successfully, but they were all smaller than a big white.

 

[Farmer17]

In the movie Jaws they are shooting at it with a M-1 Garand and it had no effect at all. They finally had to blow it up with a scuba tank but I think an M-1 30-06 FMJ round would handle the biggest shark quite easily.

 

[TN RAT]

Extreme Prejudice starring Powers Boothe with an N frame in a big bore and magnaported. When he shoots some guy in the head you can even see the ports working.

Michael Ironside had a 4 inch 686.

In that first doll movie about Chuckie the cop carries either a 10 or 13, and thumbs back the hammer at the end to shoot Chuck in the heart.

 

[jp zanoya]

One of my favorite shows was MIAMI VICE. Rico Tubbs carried a Bodyguard and Crockett, in later seasons, carried a 645, then a 4506 (because of too many problems with his Bren Ten).

 

[Wyo]

Jodie Foster in "The Silence of the Lambs" used a Model 13. Treat Williams and Chris Christopherson in "Flashpoint" were border patrolmen using 4" Model 28s:

 

[Buford57]

2 1/2" 66 Carried by Eastwood in "The Gauntlet"

6" M28 carried by Al Lettieri as the heavy in the Steve MCQueen/Ali McGraw version of "The Getaway"

2" M&P with which Pacino shot Al Lettieri in "The Godfather".

 

[Gunsandguitars]

Nick Nolte also carried a 4" Model 29 for the first few minutes of 48 Hours. He lost it to the bad guy and had to use a borrowed 1911. Eddie Murphy had either a Model 66 or 19 (I forget which) with a 2.5" barrel that he'd "appropriated" at the end of the film.