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Posted on 09/03/2009 5:50:55 PM PDT by Chasaway
Started another thread about getting sights for my 1911. And it got me thinking that another thread might be worthwhile...
What are some films that use the 1911 prominently? Terrific (or sucky!) movies that have the ole standby as the handgun of choice?
Tell me, tell me, tell me...
Best movie ever using 1911’s is “Last Man Standing” starring Bruce Willis, or my dad at the range.
Try “Ronin” with Robert De Niro?
The Getaway.
Dude!
Someone else on ANOTHER thread mentioned that movie!
I am so totally all over getting that show now.
Peace.
Nick Nolte; Extreme Prejudice
RLTW
In the MUMMY movies Brendan Fraser packs two of them.
Get it - they used all the bullets in Hollywood on that movie.
Regards,
Janey
It’s Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo except with Americans and guns. Definitely worth checking out.
They didn’t HAVE any bullets in Hollywood! They musta borrowed from Chicago or Texas....
Or maybe shot blanks...
I also like "The Lost Battalion."
Rick Schroeder did a great job in that film, and he uses a Colt 1911 throughout.
Holy cow!!!
Either you folks really know your .45 lore...
Or you really need to get a life!
[joke]
Amazing! I’ve already got a bunch of shows I’ve gotta procure now...
The Wild Bunch
It is one of Steven Segal’s favorite guns and he features it every chance he gets.
Movie synopsis: In Prohibition Era Texas, a mysterious character (later identifying himself as "John Smith") drives into Jericho, a town mere miles from the Mexican border. Gang violence between the resident Irish gang (headed by Doyle) and Italian gang (headed by Strozzi) has decimated the town and left few legitimate citizens remaining, aside from the bartender Joe Monday, an undertaker and a corrupt sheriff, all of whom make their living by catering to Jericho's criminal elements. Smith immediately establishes a reputation by outdrawing and killing Doyle's top shooter, a brazen act that gets the attention of both gangs. Smith promptly hires himself out to Strozzi's gang for what Strozzi predicts is an upcoming gang war following the impending dissolution of an uneasy ceasefire. He dispatches Smith to oversee an operation where the corrupt Mexican soldiers guarding Doyle's illegal alcohol smuggling change alliances mid-operation and murder Doyle's men, stealing the product and trucks in the process. Amidst constant bickering and accusations by Strozzi's hotheaded cousin Giorgio and unwanted attempts at investigating his past, Smith quits Strozzi's gang. Doyle returns to Jericho and immediately asks Smith to join his gang, which Smith politely declines. Smith later tells Strozzi a rumor about the Mexican soldiers returning to Doyle's ranks, forcing Strozzi to send Giorgio down to smooth things over. Later, Hickey (Christopher Walken) returns to Jericho and informed of the Mexican soldiers' betrayal, travels to Mexico and ruthlessly guns down the soldiers, several of Strozzi's men and an American police officer. Hickey leaves Giorgio alive as a hostage. An exchange is arranged between the two gangs, where Giorgio will be exchanged for money. At the swap, Hickey shoots Strozzi's bagman, revealing the contents of the suitcase to be newspaper. When Doyle threatens to kill Giorgio unless Strozzi surrenders and leaves Jericho, Strozzi pulls out Felina, Doyle's mistress whom he previously abducted and demands a clean exchange for Giorgio. The exchange is made and the two gangs scatter, leaving Smith standing alone over the discarded body of Strozzi's bagman and newspaper blowing in the desert wind. Hours later Smith receives a visitor, Captain Tom Pickett of the Texas Rangers, who informs Smith that an American federal police officer, in reality a Immigration Inspector in Mexico was killed, presumably by one of the two gangs in Jericho. He warns that he can tolerate one gang in Jericho, but not two and if more than one remains in Jericho in ten days time, he will bring a squad of Rangers into Jericho and wipe out both gangs. On his way out, Captain Pickett warns Smith that he himself should also leave Jericho. The next day Smith joins Doyle's gang and warns of the risk an abducted Felina is to Doyle's gang, relaying a false rumor that Strozzi is bringing in a squad of excellent shooters for the impending war. Doyle orders Smith to the safehouse where Felina is guarded by eight men. Smith promptly shoots them in a brief yet fierce gun battle, vandalizes portions of the safehouse and sets Felina free with a car and money Smith received from Doyle. Felina gives him her crucifix necklace as a memento and disappears into the desert. Doyle arrives in the morning and enraged at the abduction of his mistress, ignites the Irish-Italian gang war that had been simmering for months. Days later in a quiet Jericho, Hickey corners Smith, revealing that Felina was spotted in a Mexican town and sold the car from the safehouse for a couple of hundred bucks to travel on to her husband and child. Finally assembling the pieces together and discovering Felina's necklace in Smith's possession, Doyle imprisons Smith and beats him to find out where Felina is. Throughout the beating, Smith refuses to cooperate. Later that night, he escapes by killing two of Doyle's men, seeking help from the bartender who conceals him in a large ice box and along with the Sheriff's help relocates him to the church where Felina prayed outside of town. While the Doyle gang is searching for Smith, the Sheriff falsely informs them that Smith is hiding with the Strozzi gang at Slim's roadhouse; the Doyle gang confronts the Strozzi gang there and sets it ablaze, shooting anyone who escapes into the streets. Strozzi and Giorgio are the last two to die. Two days later the Sheriff arrives at the church, informing Smith that Doyle has discovered the bartender's complicity in Smith's escape and will probably torture him to death to find him. Smith re-arms himself with a large bread-knife. The Sheriff gives him his dual 1911 Colt semi-automatic pistols instead. Smith goes back to the Red Bird Saloon, collects his hat and extra magazines then storms Doyle's mansion, gunning down a dozen men before freeing the bartender. He mounts a tommy gun onto the shattered remains of the mansion, signaling Doyle and Hickey to meet him at Slim's Roadhouse at sunset. In the final scene, Doyle, Hickey and Bob the Deputy meet Smith and the bartender. Doyle, happy with his victory over Strozzi, is despondent over the loss of Felina and begs Smith to tell him where to find her. The bartender promptly shoots Doyle and Smith shoots Bob before he can retaliate. Hickey raises his hands and asks if Smith is going to have the bartender shoot him too. The bartender lays his gun down and watches how Smith and Hickey will react. Hickey expresses no desire to die in Texas ("Chicago maybe") before turning back on Smith. With lightning speed he quickdraws a pistol from his holster (just as he had done before when he killed the Border Patrol officer), but Smith is faster, and kills Hickey. With all the gangs dead, Smith holsters his gun, steps into his car, and drives off into the sunset.
Best...gun...ever. I’ve got two. ;-)
Just a little.
Oh, man...
Not to double-time someone else on here, but I think I love you, too.
C
Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.
(simulated 1911 shown)
We were Soldiers Once.
Sam Elliot’s character, CSM Plumley.
Awesome movie.
HA!
Scary bastard. Even with his finger.
And Yojimbo's really Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest" except with samurais and swords. Then there's "Fistful of Dollars", which is Yojimbo and Red Harvest, but with Clint Eastwood, a bunch of Italians, and six-shooters.
"Last Man Standing" is the only version that's at least set in the same era as the book.
Knew Fist Full of Dollars, but didn’t know Red Harvest.
I think that Gary Cooper in “Sergeant York” had a few scenes with a 1911. A wonderful movie with a lot nuance. The contrasts between the back country up in the hollers religious faith and the strains of an arming America in WW1 are very well done!
Featuring the Continental Op, the original Man With No Name. Hammett really is the starting point of the American style of crime fiction. He pretty much invented “hard boiled.”
The Survivors, Walter Mathau, Robin Williams, and Jerry Reed as the hitman with the .45. Great movie.
Real life bad-ass right there. Plumley fought in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Combat jumps in WWII and Korea too if I am not mistaken.
'Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves.'
We were soldiers once is a great book too- should anyone want to read a great account of a battle.
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground.
I just pulled Red Harvest off the shelf last month and read it for the fourth or fifth time. Always a good read every three years or so.
Well, .45 with Mila Jovovich... It’s the title of the film. It’s a hard film to like though.
Is this a 1911 she's holding?
Public Enemies
"....it shoots through schools."
Personally, I’m excited that the new James Ellroy is supposed to come out this fall. Of course, I’ve been hearing that for like the last three years.
I remember Jimmy cagney had pockets full of them in one of his gangster movies - empties them all and throws one at the end.
Put your seat belt on boy! I don't ride with anybody unless they wear their seatbelt. It's one of my rules.
Otto, going through Lite's briefcase, picks up gun.
LITE
Put that damn gun down boy. It ain't no toy.
Platoon with the girl and old woman
Phantasm.
Used a .45 against the dwarves.
Y’all talking ‘bout death?
Looks like a Taurus 9mm in the Beretta 92 configuration.
I might have to watch that movie again and freeze the frame on a good picture of the gun to see what it actually is. Supposed to be a .45. Hollywood is really bad about getting guns wrong though.
Just saw that on DVD, never remember even hearing about it when it was in theaters.
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