They wouldn't let me pick it up for display, so I had to take a not-very-good shot of it through glass at the NRA convention. It's purported to be the revolver (or one of the revolvers) used by Clint Eastwood in the movie Dirty Harry.
The "Dirty Harry" revolver
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Racegunner
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I'm skeptical.
I thought there were only two. One is in the possession of Milius and the other is owned by Eastwood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBhm64WrQQ
What is that marking on the frame in front of the cylinder? looks like "5 IN"
I also don't think any of the Dirty Harry 29s had diamond grips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jicw94_aXiQ
Also, please don't post that it was a model 57 or 25. We all know this was not the case. Both were 29s, it's been discussed to death on countless forums.
I thought there were only two. One is in the possession of Milius and the other is owned by Eastwood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltBhm64WrQQ
What is that marking on the frame in front of the cylinder? looks like "5 IN"
I also don't think any of the Dirty Harry 29s had diamond grips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jicw94_aXiQ
Also, please don't post that it was a model 57 or 25. We all know this was not the case. Both were 29s, it's been discussed to death on countless forums.
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Racegunner,
Like you, I'm somewhat skeptical on this one, but just reporting what was placarded. It's a 6.5" barrel, not a 6" as indicated.
Also, it's pretty beat up. It may be that it was used as a prop gun for dropping, hardscrabble scenes, etc. That would be my best guess.
Like you, I'm somewhat skeptical on this one, but just reporting what was placarded. It's a 6.5" barrel, not a 6" as indicated.
Also, it's pretty beat up. It may be that it was used as a prop gun for dropping, hardscrabble scenes, etc. That would be my best guess.
2000Z-71
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That booth was worth every second that I waited in the crowd to get in and see. Lots of cool stuff, John Wayne's shotgun from "Big Jake", his '92 from "True Grit", Eastwood's Walker Colt from "Outlaw Josey Whales", and of course Paladin's holster rig...
hberttmank
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I still cringe when I watch that scene in Dirty Harry at the cross in the park. Scorpio makes Harry pull his gun out and toss it down, you can hear it hit the concrete. AAAGGGHHH!
mod29fan
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Yep, the sound of that 29 hitting the deck sends shivvers up my spine.
Racegunner
Member
Yeah, I was actually wondering about the gun he dropped in the park while I typed that and thought which of the two, if any, it might have been. I hate to think what concrete would do to that nice blueing!
That whole scene with Scorpio in the ski mask, "ooh, that's a big one!" sort of weirds me out.
calmex
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In an interview on the History Channel (I think) I heard John Milius talk about that scene. He said they had a mattress for the gun to land on, but because Clint threw it with his left hand -- he missed. Clunk. Ooops.
Marshall 357
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I watched Mc Q a few months back,it looked to me like John Wayne used a 1911 ?
Texas Star
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Doesn't Hollywood usually use rubber guns for that kind of abuse. The foley guys put in sound effects so it sounds real.[/QUOTE]
I was a big fan of the cancelled TV show, "THe Lost World", filmed in Queensland, Australia.
Members of the show's main fan site were offered a chance to buy the prop guns, not the real ones used in scenes where they were fired. They were rubber. Some seem to have been some sort of plastic or resin. They looked to be casts of the real guns they replicated.
In one scene filmed in a cavern, Lord Roxton dropped his .416 Rigby on the floor, and the sound was clearly that of the plastic replica. The Foley guys missed that.
In an episode where blonde cutie Finn was fighting some bad guys, she got hold of one of Roxton's MK VI .455 Webleys. She ran around with it tucked in her stretch knit brief shorts. A steel Webley would have fallen out of her shorts.
She also cocked the hammer of a real Webley that had something done to the mechanism that let the cylinder revolve when she spun it. I think the clicking noise as she spun it was a Foley effect. But when she shot at Zoth, the creep she was trying to kill, the bullet (?) kicked wood off a tree trunk just fine.
TV and movies use an eclectic mix of real and fake guns.
T-Star
I was a big fan of the cancelled TV show, "THe Lost World", filmed in Queensland, Australia.
Members of the show's main fan site were offered a chance to buy the prop guns, not the real ones used in scenes where they were fired. They were rubber. Some seem to have been some sort of plastic or resin. They looked to be casts of the real guns they replicated.
In one scene filmed in a cavern, Lord Roxton dropped his .416 Rigby on the floor, and the sound was clearly that of the plastic replica. The Foley guys missed that.
In an episode where blonde cutie Finn was fighting some bad guys, she got hold of one of Roxton's MK VI .455 Webleys. She ran around with it tucked in her stretch knit brief shorts. A steel Webley would have fallen out of her shorts.
She also cocked the hammer of a real Webley that had something done to the mechanism that let the cylinder revolve when she spun it. I think the clicking noise as she spun it was a Foley effect. But when she shot at Zoth, the creep she was trying to kill, the bullet (?) kicked wood off a tree trunk just fine.
TV and movies use an eclectic mix of real and fake guns.
T-Star
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