Handguns/Firearms In Movies.....
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George Hill
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The twin Gold Springfields in FACE OFF.
hemlock0013
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I'm kinda cheating here, but I've got to mention the original comic book of "The Crow." For most of the book he used an 8" Python and a sawed-off double-barrel 20 gauge Stoeger shotgun. As the Crow offed bad guys he tied the spent .357 casings to his hair. For the final shootout he added what looked like a SIG 220 and an AK-47. Worked a katana sword and a hammer in there, too.
BTW, the comic was way better then the movie, though I liked both.
---hemlock0013
BTW, the comic was way better then the movie, though I liked both.
---hemlock0013
So how come no one in the movies ever finishes a shoot-out and sez "Goll-dang, that was LOUD. I think I'm DEAF" "WHAT?" "I said, having 6 fully automatic weapons fired in this confined space is making my EARS RING louder than the Libery Bell" "WHAT?"
Favorites? M-1s being used on Nazis in "Saving Private Ryan".
Favorites? M-1s being used on Nazis in "Saving Private Ryan".
Mr. Blonde
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Thanks jnix...
I almost forgot, you gotta love the gold springfields in Faceoff.... seeing those things makes me happy.
Bam Bam, what was that nice little (sort of) full-auto Hanks was carrying?
I almost forgot, you gotta love the gold springfields in Faceoff.... seeing those things makes me happy.
Bam Bam, what was that nice little (sort of) full-auto Hanks was carrying?
handsome frank
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hey, you guys know that the full auto in saving private ryan, that tom hanks had, was an m1a1 thompson right? comon, you guys didnt know that? or is there something i am missing? ive seen that movie so many times, but ive only seen him shoot the m1a1 and his pistol after he gets shot...what i didnt get is why he didnt use his pistol ammo to fill up another mag for his m1a1, it seems like it would have been a lot more useful than keeping it for the pistol...btw, some of the gun scenes in the omega man are awesome, i love the swedish k1(i think) that chuck takes everywhere with him..or could it be one of the smith and wesson smg's?
Mr. Blonde
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I thought it was an M1 frank, thanks.
BamBam I was talking about the beginning (Beach Invasion).
That was a badass sniper.
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"Chi Chi.... Chi Chi, Get The Yayo" - Tony Montana
"Get rid of that nickel plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock" - Tommy Lee Jones
BamBam I was talking about the beginning (Beach Invasion).
That was a badass sniper.
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"Chi Chi.... Chi Chi, Get The Yayo" - Tony Montana
"Get rid of that nickel plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock" - Tommy Lee Jones
My favorites:
(1) Gary Cooper's '03 in "Sergeant York" (What can I say - I love old movies
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(2) Quigley's Sharp
Ran this question by my wife - a sympathetic non-shooter (so far - I'm working on her...). Her favorite scene was from a 1984 movie named "Thief of Hearts", where Steven Bauer teaches Barbara Williams how to shoot a 1911. If I remember correctly, they started off in the isosceles position and ended up doing the horizontal mambo.
(1) Gary Cooper's '03 in "Sergeant York" (What can I say - I love old movies
)(2) Quigley's Sharp
Ran this question by my wife - a sympathetic non-shooter (so far - I'm working on her...). Her favorite scene was from a 1984 movie named "Thief of Hearts", where Steven Bauer teaches Barbara Williams how to shoot a 1911. If I remember correctly, they started off in the isosceles position and ended up doing the horizontal mambo.
George Hill
Staff Alumnus
Tom Hanks in Private Ryan?
That was the mighty Thompson Submachinegun - loving called the TOMMY GUN. The military variant used stick mags as they are more reliable than the '20 famed Drum magazine... and it also had a straight fore end rather than the vertical grip.
That was the mighty Thompson Submachinegun - loving called the TOMMY GUN. The military variant used stick mags as they are more reliable than the '20 famed Drum magazine... and it also had a straight fore end rather than the vertical grip.
J
Jeff, CA
Guest
2) John Wayne and the coach-gun-in-the-shower scene in "Big Jake".
BG: No hard feelings, huh?
JW: *BOOM* The hell there ain't!
BG: No hard feelings, huh?
JW: *BOOM* The hell there ain't!
George is correct
Hanks had a M1A1 Submachine gun designed by General Thompson.
The Thompson Model 1921 could use both box and drum magazines and could shoot 800rds/min, had nice sites and a compensator to reduce muzzle climb. It was redesigned for use by the marines in 1928, reduced its volume of fire to 600rds/min, standarized compensator and still could take a box and drum magazines.
It was redesigned and simplified in 1941, no compensator, fired only from box magazines and had simplified sites. This became Submachine gun 45ACP M1A1.
~bamf
Hanks had a M1A1 Submachine gun designed by General Thompson.
The Thompson Model 1921 could use both box and drum magazines and could shoot 800rds/min, had nice sites and a compensator to reduce muzzle climb. It was redesigned for use by the marines in 1928, reduced its volume of fire to 600rds/min, standarized compensator and still could take a box and drum magazines.
It was redesigned and simplified in 1941, no compensator, fired only from box magazines and had simplified sites. This became Submachine gun 45ACP M1A1.
~bamf
Dean Speir
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Originally posted by Jim V:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Well, the 1911A1 used by Nick Nolte in EXTREME PREJUDICE. Blue steel government with stag grips carried in a Threeperson holster on a "river belt."[/quote] I think that if you look again you'll see that it was a Colt Commander… and in 9 X 19mm, at that! (Which has more to do with reliability with blanks than anything else.)
Originally posted by Ezeckial:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>For an older flick, "Thief" with James Caan, had some great 1911 handling.[/quote] In the DVD edition of Thief with an SAP by Caan and Michael Mann, they speak on three separate occasions of the former having attended "Jeff Cooper's Gunsite."
In point of fact, Cooper, apprised of the nature of the protagonist, declined to instruct Caan in the Modern Technique (to the extent that it had progressed circa 1980, sayng that as a longtime convict and then a career criminal, the character "Frank" would not have been exposed to it.
Gunsite's D.Ops at the time, Chuck Taylor, took the commission privately, and spent 24 hours teaching Caan how to look like he knew what he was doing. (Caan later repaid Taylor by off-handedly mentioning on a radio 'phone-in show: "Some Nazi took me into the desert and showed me some stuff.")
Caan was an otherwise good pupil, making only one discernable gun-handling mistake in Thief, that being the magazine change-out during the final shootout on the lawn after killing "Leo" inside the house. (Lotsa good guns in that film, from the Hoag long-slide 1911-style [with the S&W K-frame sights, the hot set-up for the day] to Belushi's M1 Carbine [when he had the high ground watching Caan's back¹ during the first meet with "Leo"] to Denis Farina's rare High Standard Model 10 [bullpup] shotgun.)
And 20 years later, Caan has retained his instruction if anyone has seen The Way of the Gun, one of the finest firearms films in terms of authenticity of ordnance and technique, that I've ever seen. I only spotted one error in the entire movie, and that had credits-to-credits gunplay. (There may have been more, but the freakin' projector exploded toward the end of the final reel, and we lost five minutes of shootout… I'm going back to see it again this week, all-the-way-through, this time!)
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<LI> When Mann remade Thief 15 years later as Heat, he shot this scene in a deserted drive-in movie, with Val Kilmer on the high ground covering "Neil" during the abortive exchange. Heat's ordnance was considerably more sophisticated by this time.
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• Dean Speir, jus' visiting from The Gun Zone
[This message has been edited by Dean Speir (edited September 18, 2000).]
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Well, the 1911A1 used by Nick Nolte in EXTREME PREJUDICE. Blue steel government with stag grips carried in a Threeperson holster on a "river belt."[/quote] I think that if you look again you'll see that it was a Colt Commander… and in 9 X 19mm, at that! (Which has more to do with reliability with blanks than anything else.)
Originally posted by Ezeckial:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>For an older flick, "Thief" with James Caan, had some great 1911 handling.[/quote] In the DVD edition of Thief with an SAP by Caan and Michael Mann, they speak on three separate occasions of the former having attended "Jeff Cooper's Gunsite."
In point of fact, Cooper, apprised of the nature of the protagonist, declined to instruct Caan in the Modern Technique (to the extent that it had progressed circa 1980, sayng that as a longtime convict and then a career criminal, the character "Frank" would not have been exposed to it.
Gunsite's D.Ops at the time, Chuck Taylor, took the commission privately, and spent 24 hours teaching Caan how to look like he knew what he was doing. (Caan later repaid Taylor by off-handedly mentioning on a radio 'phone-in show: "Some Nazi took me into the desert and showed me some stuff.")
Caan was an otherwise good pupil, making only one discernable gun-handling mistake in Thief, that being the magazine change-out during the final shootout on the lawn after killing "Leo" inside the house. (Lotsa good guns in that film, from the Hoag long-slide 1911-style [with the S&W K-frame sights, the hot set-up for the day] to Belushi's M1 Carbine [when he had the high ground watching Caan's back¹ during the first meet with "Leo"] to Denis Farina's rare High Standard Model 10 [bullpup] shotgun.)
And 20 years later, Caan has retained his instruction if anyone has seen The Way of the Gun, one of the finest firearms films in terms of authenticity of ordnance and technique, that I've ever seen. I only spotted one error in the entire movie, and that had credits-to-credits gunplay. (There may have been more, but the freakin' projector exploded toward the end of the final reel, and we lost five minutes of shootout… I'm going back to see it again this week, all-the-way-through, this time!)
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<LI> When Mann remade Thief 15 years later as Heat, he shot this scene in a deserted drive-in movie, with Val Kilmer on the high ground covering "Neil" during the abortive exchange. Heat's ordnance was considerably more sophisticated by this time.
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• Dean Speir, jus' visiting from The Gun Zone
[This message has been edited by Dean Speir (edited September 18, 2000).]
"Heat" is not really a remake of "Thief" although they do share some similar elements. Heat was actually a decade in the making and the script, almost in its final form was aired on television in 88-89 as the pilot episode of "LA Takedown" which was never picked up by NBC. Until the ending and excepting profanity it is nearly shot for shot and word for word. It did feature the bank heist although obviously less ambitious, but did include the headshot that kills Micheal Cimino.
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Aloha!
John
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Aloha!
John
...and speaking of Mann...
Not really a movie, but to this day I still really need a Stainless Bren Ten in a Galco rig and a Dectonics Combat Master. (and a Ferrari Daytona GTB Sptder too)
Later Sonny carried a S&W 645 but we won't go there!!
How about Ash's "S-mart" Remington from "Army of Darkness?" This is my BOOMSTICK!! Good, Bad, I'm the guy with the gun...
Or how about Scott Glenn in "Silverado" shooting the quills off a cactus with a Henry rifle? Or Kevin Costners two-gun rig?
Harrison Ford had a pretty cool handgun in "Bladerunner"
Robocop's Beretta 93R (heavily disguised)
And the battle rifle to end all battle rifles...M41A PUlse Rifle from "Aliens"
Not really a movie, but to this day I still really need a Stainless Bren Ten in a Galco rig and a Dectonics Combat Master. (and a Ferrari Daytona GTB Sptder too)
Later Sonny carried a S&W 645 but we won't go there!!
How about Ash's "S-mart" Remington from "Army of Darkness?" This is my BOOMSTICK!! Good, Bad, I'm the guy with the gun...
Or how about Scott Glenn in "Silverado" shooting the quills off a cactus with a Henry rifle? Or Kevin Costners two-gun rig?
Harrison Ford had a pretty cool handgun in "Bladerunner"
Robocop's Beretta 93R (heavily disguised)
And the battle rifle to end all battle rifles...M41A PUlse Rifle from "Aliens"