What have we here? James Bond carrying a revolver?

I recall thinking that the large revolver was a Smith model 27, because of the tapered barrel. The publicity photo did not necesarilly use the same gun that was used in the film.

Does Anyone have the movie on DVD that they could freeze frame and zoom in to look at the gun?
 
Geez, people were actually looking at the guns and at Bond.

Weren't the movies just a series of good-looking chicks getting laid and/or murdered?
 
and just for clarification, the large bore backup for his walther PPK, which replaced his beretta 5.65 (.25acp), was a smith M-42 centennial (with the grip safety)
 
The .25 ACP is the 6.35mm in Euro terms.

Boothroyd meant to suggest the Centennial for Bond's main carry gun, with the S&W M-27 .357 for the "car gun". One can immediately see the logic in that.

Fleming got his wires crossed and went with the PPk and the Centennial. Read, "Dr. No".

By the way, the guy playing Boothroyd in the film version of "Dr. No" looked nothing like the real man.

Oh: Boothroyd later told me that after the S&W stainless Chief's Special (Model 60) debuted in 1965, it would be the obvious Bond gun. But Fleming had died by then.

Lone Star
 
In that movie Roger Moore had a six inch nickeled model 29.
Now THATS a real gun!

He took a 3 inch 19 off the african american agent.

Interestingly in the books, Bond carried a snubby .38 more than he did the PPK or the Beretta .380. In the novel Spy Who Loved Me Bond carried the PPK as a back up for his .38 revolver.
He went after the dragon in Dr. No with a .38 colt and 20 rounds of ammo.
Talk about balls!

LOL...
The best books I have ever read about spies and guns are Peter O'Donnels Modesty Blaise books. The firearms info is usually accurate no matter what weapon is being discussed. Modesty's choices were a .32 Colt snubby for fast and accurate shooting, a MAB .25 for deep concealment and occassionally a .41 magnum S&W. Willie Garvin was a knife man and could barely hit the side of a barn from the inside with a pistol.
 
modesty prefered the MAB .25 because it was "enough gun if you were accurate enough" and it was quiet without having to resort to a silencer

remember though that willie was deadly with a rifle.
 
He was good with those throwing knives, too.
I recall one of Modesty's sleazy ex lovers ( a cat burglar) who packed a S&W .44 magnum too.
 
yup, a 4" .44 magnum...she tool a flesh wound to her left arm while shooting him with her .32 colt, firing across the small of her back
 
Wasn't that in Operation Sabertooth?
The ex lover was half Irish, I recall. I did not check the publication date when I read it ,but it may have been one of the earlier fictional appearances of the .44 and the .41 as she was shooting a .41 at the beginning of the book.
 
He does but remember this is a movie, that's presumably a shot from the movie on the cover, and he's probably about to use it.
 
Bond carried several revolvers in the books though not all of them were written by Fleming. I seem to recall the use of Colt Detective specials and Police Positives, various S&W's, and even a Ruger Super Blackhawk and Super Redhawk. Also, one villain (I don't remember which) used a Colt Python and the book version of the Man with the Golden Gun used both a Gold Plated Colt SAA and derringer. Finally one of the Henchmen (Tee-Hee) in Live and Let Die was relived of his S&W .38 after being killed by Bond.
 
Jack Malloy commented: "LOL...
The best books I have ever read about spies and guns are Peter O'Donnels Modesty Blaise books. The firearms info is usually accurate no matter what weapon is being discussed. Modesty's choices were a .32 Colt snubby for fast and accurate shooting, a MAB .25 for deep concealment and occassionally a .41 magnum S&W. Willie Garvin was a knife man and could barely hit the side of a barn from the inside with a pistol."

I remember a discussion of the Luger, in one of the Blaise books, lifted line for line from a comment in Guns & Ammo Magazine. Something about replacing the front sight and squaring the notch.

Geoff
Who will confess to reading G&A, Guns and other trashy works of fiction in his younger days. :rolleyes:
 
Fleming usually referred to Bonds revolver as being "sawn off" instead of "snub nosed" which always made me wonder if 007 was carryng a hacksaw special.
 
In Dr. No he used both a PPK and a S&W Airweght. I believe Airweights are usually snubbies so in a least one novel he seems to carry a proper snub. Fleming didn't seem to be much of a gun person so he may have meant to say "snub nosed" when he said "sawn off". Perhaps he got his shotgun and revolver terms mixed up.
 
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