Best movie for revolvers?

Some great movies mentioned here.

My favorite [that hasn't been mentioned] is Wasabi. It is a french film with Jean Reno playing a loner cop who is a former member of some security service for France and is brutal [yes, like Dirty Harry]. However, the fighting scenes are more funny than accurate: like the scene where he punches a man and he flies 15 feet backward. It is deliberately shot that way to be funny, not just stupid fight choreography.

Anyway, he doesn't carry a S&W model 29, but an 8+" barrel S&W .357mag [I forget if it was 686 or 686+] at the beginning, and a Taurus Raging Bull later.

I like Jean Reno and found this a fun movie with some great [humourous] action scenes. That is why Wasabi gets my vote!
 
Not a movie but a current cable TV series called "The Walking Dead"

The highway patrolman/hero/leader of a group of survivors goes around slaying zombies with headshots every episode with a Colt Python.

I have always been a Smith and Wesson fan but watching it makes me want to go out and find an old Colt Revolver!
 
Death Wish

The first one. Bronson and a Colt Police Positive get the job done, and if memory serves, the action was fairly realistic.
 
I like Val Kilmer in "Thunderheart" who played an FBI agent investigating murders on an Indian Reservation. He had a couple of shootouts with his 2.5 inch Smith&Wesson K frame revolver. Those K frames look a bit big compared to a traditional J frame "snubby".
 
Magnum force is the best revolver movie. There is an old cop movie from the same year called Seven Ups with Roy Scheider. Quite a few revolver scenes including the final shoot out where the bad guy uses an N frame with either a four inch barrel or a 3 1/2 inch.
 
For sentimental reasons I like the Indiana Jones scenes where he wields that old S&W Model 1917. My 1917 was my grandad's sidearm in WWI.
 
It's not a movie but Chuck Norris used a revolver in the first and second seasons of Walker Texas Ranger. Kinda wish he stuck with it through the whole series.

I think he carried on in Lone Wolf McQuaid as well.

What kind of revolver was it? It looks like a Smith and Wesson 44 mag of some sort.
 
I'm a fan of old movies, especially serials. The last serial was made around 1954 or 1944. Automatics showed up sometimes but mostly the hero used a double-action revolver unless it was a western, in which case he used--well, just guess. Invariably the DA revolver is a Smith & Wesson M&P, often as not carried without a holster. A five-inch barrel is often seen but those were nearly always carried in a holster. In even older movies, I am amused when they pull a revolver with a six-inch barrel from a shoulder holster.

One of the last serials featured a lead who only carried a Colt Detective Special, so ever since then I've figured that a .38 snub nose revolver was sufficient armament for most folks. I don't have one. The serial also featured very prominently some brand new Fords.
 
Does it have to be realistic?

If not: Malcolm Reynolds' single action from Firefly/Serenity (should I ever win the lottery I am having one made), Jayne's LeMat cap & ball/shotgun revolver from the same series/movie, and Vash's inverted barrel .45 Colt top break:D from Trigun
 
I just watched "The Enforcer" again just to see Tyne Daly's 2.5" Python.
Nice gun!

Per the wiki on Tyne Daly, that movie begat a TV version of a Harry Callahan knockoff and female leo partner called "Hunter". I don't recall it.

My question is did that TV spinoff have some cool revolvers in it (a la Dirty Harry)?

Also, did Cagney and Lacey not have revolvers?
 
Yep, I forgot 'Hunter'.

I think the actors' name was Fred something or other.

It was ok.

He didn't carry a revolver, if I remember right. I only watched it 6 or 7 times back in the 80s, so I'm really reaching for an answer.
 
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