Quiz: Spot that S&W on TV/Movies

[Milpolice]

Didn't (I'm dating myself here) Broderick Crawford, "The Highway Patrol" have a model 36?

 

[CelticSire]

I can't believe it's 5 pages and no one has mentioned Sledge Hammer and his 629!

"Trust me, I know what I'm doing."

 

[DCWilson]

Originally posted by haggis:
In the movie "Hickey and Boggs", Boggs (Robert Culp) used a supposed model 29 with an 8-3/8" barrel, while Hickey (Bill Cosby) used what I think is a model 14 with an 8-3/8" barrel.

Pretty gritty film noire, if you haven't seen it.

Buck

Thanks for reminding me of this movie, which I heard about years ago but never saw. Got it from Netflix and watched it last night. Yes, Robert Culp has a long tube 29 and jokes at one point that "I can never hit anything with this; I gotta get a bigger gun."

Cosby's gun is more interesting, it looks like a Military and Police -- fixed sights with a big half round front, medallion service grips, pre-War hammer style and a long barrel. When you see the chamber end of the barrel when he's loading it, it looks like a small caliber -- .32? I'm not yet sure what this gun is, but I'd like to know more about it.

David W.

 

[shawn mccarver]

Originally posted by BigBoreShooter:
The model 29 was also used prominently in 48 Hours (Nick Nolte & Ganz) and in Blue Steel (Ron Silver).

A 6" 629 was used buy James Bond in Live an Let Die.

Jamie Lee Curtis used the Model 10, of course, in Blue Steel. Roger Moore did not use the 6 inch 629, as it had not yet been introduced when Live and Let Die was filmed. Since the 629 did not come along for several years after that film, it was obviously a nickel 6 1/2 inch Model 29.

 

[shawn mccarver]

Originally posted by sbachler:
Does anyone know what kind of gun Jack Webb used in Dragnet?

Scott,

nice thread btw.

Sgt. Friday (Webb) carried the two inch square butt Model 10 and Bill Gannon, played by Harry Morgan, carried the 4 inch Model 15.

 

[S. Hammer]

Originally posted by CelticSire:
I can't believe it's 5 pages and no one has mentioned Sledge Hammer and his 629!

"Trust me, I know what I'm doing."

Let's not forget his partner with the Bodyguard and Capt. Trunk carried a Model 60.

 

[LoadedRound]

Originally posted by Miss Fire:
I need bigger memory chips, can anybody remember what Angie Dickenson(aka Pepper Anderson) carried in the show Police Woman?

Colt. Detective Special or Cobra.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I was watching "Cannon" with William Conrad back in the 80's I think. A small plane took off. Cannon pulles a chief special (2" 38) and shoots the plane down. Andy Garcia carries a 4" M&P in the untouchables plus a nickeled Dick Special. Don't know if they existed then.The Colt I mean.

 

[Massad Ayoob]

They sure did. Eliot Ness indicated to his biographer that he carried a Colt Detective Special (would've been a First Issue square butt probably) in a shoulder holster as his primary weapon.

Dang...I thought Garcia used a 4" Colt plus a Dick Special in the movie. Reason enough to see it again.

 

[Doug.38PR]

^
Garcia DID use a Colt Official Police at the gun range in the beginning establishing to us what a crackshot he was and a nickle Detective Special as a backup gun (as he...showed...Sean Connery)
Later however in the train station he is using a 4 inch S&W M&P and tossed his DS BUG to Ness.

 

[Bill Bates]

How about the M&P at the beginning of the old Superman TV series ...you know ..."faster than a speeding bullet".

 

[Doug.38PR]

In the first two black and white seasons, it was (or at least it looked like) a Colt Official Police without an ejector rod cap. In the more cartoonish colored seasons it was a S&W M&P.


....I wonder sometimes if I just watch too much TV...

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Did anyone mention "The Seven Ups" yet? Roy Shneider carries a model 36 (I think) with a pair of grips as big as a tree trunk. The bad guy has more sense and uses a 3 1/2" Model 27.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Thanks, doug38pr. I forgot about Andy Garcia's O.P. Colt at the beginning. In Romancing the Stone, Douglas and Turner go into a village where everyone has nickled S&W's in thier wastebands. Then Michael Douglas gets a mint condition New Model Three aimed at his face. Also nickle. In LA Confidential the Police Chief has what looks like a Combat Masterpiece.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I just remembered. In Lonesome Dove Gus is being chased and shot at by a bunch of renegades. I swear one of them is shooting a Model 10.

 

[Doug.38PR]

^
I remember that scene. It's the halfbreed Kiowa leader with the yankee blue army jacket. I remember it was some kind of DA revolver...but a M-10? I'll have to go back and check. Sure it wasn't something like a British Webley? What were some early DA revolvers?

 

[Doug.38PR]

Originally posted by Wyatt Burp:
Thanks, doug38pr. I forgot about Andy Garcia's O.P. Colt at the beginning. In Romancing the Stone, Douglas and Turner go into a village where everyone has nickled S&W's in thier wastebands. Then Michael Douglas gets a mint condition New Model Three aimed at his face. .

You don't remember what kind of S&W Zolo, the bad guy, was using after he got off the bus and held up the girl do you? Seems like it was a M-19. Michael Douglas comes along and saves her pulling his shotgun and gets into a shootout

 

[sigp220.45]

I remember that scene. It's the halfbreed Kiowa leader with the yankee blue army jacket. I remember it was some kind of DA revolver...

I think Blue Duck used a Colt SAA - maybe you're thinking about this gent and his New Service?

 

[Chuck Jones]

In the movie Homicide (1991) Det. Bobby Gold (Joe Mantegna) uses a 2 1/2 inch S&W mod 19. The cool part I heard was, it's really Joey's gun and not a prop.


/c

 

[Doug.38PR]

Originally posted by sigp220.45:

I remember that scene. It's the halfbreed Kiowa leader with the yankee blue army jacket. I remember it was some kind of DA revolver...

I think Blue Duck used a Colt SAA - maybe you're thinking about this gent and his New Service?

No I wasn't thinking of Blue Duck. He was using a SAA. I was thinking of the one with the beard who had a blue US army jacket on. The one that scalped the guy you have in the picture later.
But yes, the guy you have in the picture here is the scene I was thinking of. For some reason I just though the Kiowa leader mentioned above was holding the gun.
The guy you have here I think is the one that took out the Buffalo Gun trying to take out Gus (before Gus gave him a belly ache with his Henry)