Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel by Julia Keller

Others beat me to Rooster Cogburn, which combined a Gatling and Nitroglycerin to good effect.

Another movie with Gatlings would be The Last Samurai, where Gatlings wipe out the samurai faction.

Hey, wait, I forgot about The Internet Movie Firearm Database. For their listing of Gatling guns in movies: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Gatling_Gun

Film
Title Actor Character Note Date
The Real Glory David Niven Lt. Terence McCool Model 1883 1939
The War Wagon Bruce Cabot Frank Pierce mounted in turret 1967
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Union Army 1966
Guns of the Magnificent Seven Bernie Casey Cassie 1883 model 1969
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid . Pinkertons . 1972
The Outlaw Josey Wales Union Army 1975
3:10 to Yuma (2007) cart gunners
Rooster Cogburn John Wayne Rooster Cogburn 1975
Rooster Cogburn Katharine Hepburn 1975
Two Mules for Sister Sara French Troops
Young Guns Union Army 1988
Batman Returns 1992
Bad Girls Madeleine Stowe Cody 1994
Nostromo 1996
Wild Wild West 1999
American Outlaws Union Army 2001
The Last Samurai Imperial Japanese Army Model 1874 2003
Van Helsing weapons tester 2004
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins Michael Gross Hiram Gummer 2004
The Book of Eli Carnegie's men 2010
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows . Austrian Army Ammo fed from Broadwell drums 2011
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It looks better on the linked page, as the quoted info was in a table that wouldn't copy over to this thread.
 
Hey BlueTrain... Custer might have been right about them slowing him down. The exact ones ending up Slowing down Terrys column several times..
 
Hey ideaworks76, welcome Now I do have to say that if you are chopping telephone poles in half, I think the only Christian thing to do is send a few photos, if not a u-tube.. :D


So I am assuming that it is 45/70.. How many rounds does it take to cut through..??? Also did you rent the gun to the movie.. Any info on how that works...??? Do you baby sit with it during production.. Or do you just get it back after use????
 
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i had forgotten that the GAU-8 (Warthog cannon) was a Gatling gun. I had the privilege of working on the ammo when I was at the Old Honeywell.

Thanks for the memory.
 
Well, I started the book a few days ago in earnest and finished it today. In a nutshell, it is about the man and his times with some mention of the gun. Contrary to my statement that the author does not mention the use of electricity to power the gun, she does. If you want to learn about the gun, Paul Wahl and Don Toppel's book, The Gatling Gun is superior.
 
Rough Riders with Tom Berenger as T.R. shows Lieutenant Parker's Gatling Guns in asction. And that is historically correct.
 
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