Indiana Jones' Gun????

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Prof Young

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Have you ever noticed that Indiana Jones goes through at least three hanguns in Raiders of the Lost Ark? He starts with a revolver that he surrenders to Beloch. Then he tosses another revolver into his suitcase. In the bar fight in Tibet he is using a semi auto. Hmmmm.

What I'm really wondering is if anyone recognizes the revolver he tosses into the suit case?

See what happens to your brain when you stay up too late.

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Prof Young
 
He also switches pistols mid-fight in the bar scene in Tibet...
revolver, 1911, revolver, within about 20 seconds.
 
I found this info at http://www.theraider.net/information/indy_gear/revolver.php:

The revolver carried by Indiana Jones has changed from film to film, and in some cases from scene to scene. In Raiders, Indy carries a Smith & Wesson Hand Ejector II. This was a revolver chambered for .45 caliber rounds and introduced a few years before World War I. Normally made with a five or six inch barrel, the two examples used in Raiders had barrels cut down to four inches in length. This gun can also be seen in the 1985 film, The Aviator, starring Christopher Reeve.

Briefly in Raiders, during the Raven Bar scene and the Bantu Wind scene, Indy can be seen using a Browning HP semi-automatic pistol, common in Europe in the late 1930s.

In the brief moments that Indy has a gun in Temple of Doom, he carries the same Smith & Wesson revolver. Although there are sources that say this gun changes immediately once it plummets from the car window. The dropped gun has been argued by some to be a Colt New Service M1917, another World War I era revolver, but this has been debated.

In Last Crusade, Indy trades up the American makes for a British weapon. The massive revolver he carries is the famous Webley MKVI. Webley revolvers were used extensively throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Besides being used throughout the British colonial campaigns in the Middle East, Africa and India, the pistol was heavily used in World War I in its final major incarnation, the Mark VI. In World War II, many Webley MKVIs, officially deemed too large and heavy for use as a sidearm, still found service in the war against Hitler.
 
In the bar scene of Raiders..

the scene starts with a GM, .45, then switches to a HP.
the frontal photos show the .45, the over-the-right shoulder show the HP.
 
That is common in movies when the Propmaster isn"t paying attention. I remember an episode of Streets of San Francisco where the guy is holding a snub nose and after commercial it starts up with him holding a Semi-Auto.

Darn finally broke 1000
 
I've watched the movies extensively, specifically for weapons identification purposes (I supplied some of the info that was on the indygear website, years ago). There are two Hand Ejectors used in Raiders. One has a barrel band attachment of the front sight, and the other doesn't. Not always easy to tell which is on screen. The 1911 story persists, but even looking specifically for evidence of it, frame by frame, I've never seen a 1911. Maybe I need to see it in HD? The gun that Mrs. Spielberg fumbles out the car window in Temple of Doom is not only a (rubber?) Colt New Service, but it has a six-inch barrel, so is obviously neither of the S&W revolvers.
 
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