The "1911" in Movies and TV - Discussion Thread

[yrogerg]

Note: this thread is no longer the definitive list of movies and TV shows featuring the 1911. The definitive list is now a "sticky" located here (http://forum.m1911.org/showthread.php?t=49094).

This thread is now used for nominating new movies and TV shows to the list, as well as discussing existing entries.


This post originally asked "What's your favorite movie, which showed a 1911" or something to that extend.

Here is the compiled list. It was compiled from the posts, which follow in the next pages and maintained by Sentinel. It will be added as a locked sticky thread in this forum as well.

…And Justice for All* (1979)
"G" Men (1935)
100 Rifles (1969)
13 Rue Madeliene (1947)
1941 (1979)
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
48 Hrs. (1982)
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
A Bronx Tale (1993)
A Few Good Men (1992)
A History of Violence (2005)
A Man Apart (2003)
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Aberration (1997)
Above the Law (1988)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Across the Pacific (1942)
Aliens (1986)
All Through The Night (1941)
Angry Red Planet (1959)
Animal House (1978)
Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
At Close Range (1986)
Attack (1956)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Back to Bataan (1945)
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
Bananas (1971)
Bat*21 (1988)
Bataan (1943)
Batman (1989)
Batman Begins (2005)
Battle Cry (1955)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Battleground (1949)
Be Cool (2005)
Beach Red (1967)
Beachhead (1954)
Beer for My Horses (2008)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Billy Jack (1971)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Bulletproof (1996)
Bullitt (1968)
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Catch-22 (1970)
Che! (1969)
Cheong Wong (Double Tap) (2000)
City Heat (1984)
Cobra (1986)
Commando (1985)
Copycat (1995)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Dead Noon (2007)
Death Wish II* (1982)
Delta Force (1986)
Desperado (1995)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Dillinger (1973)
Dip huet seung hung (a.k.a. The Killer) (1989)
Dirty Deeds (2002)
Disaster Movie (2008)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Doom (2005)
Dr. No (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Employee of the Month (2006)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Exit Wounds (2001)
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Face/Off (1997)
Fall Time (1995)
Falling Down (1993)
Farewell To The King (1989)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Fear is the Key (1972)
Feeling Minnesota* (1996)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Fled (1996)
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Flying Tigers (1942)
Fool's Gold (2008)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Four Brothers (2005)
Friday Foster (1975)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Glimmer Man (1996)
Goldfinger (1964)
Gone Fishin' (1997)
Goodfellas (1990)
Gorky Park (1983)
Gran Torino (2008)
Gunmen (1994)
H___ in the Pacific (1968)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers* (1988)
Halloween 5* (1989)
Halloween II* (1981)
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers* (1995)
Halloween* (1978)
Halls of Montezuma (1950)
Happy Birthday, Wanda June* (1971)
Hard Luck (2006)
Hard to Kill (1990)
He Walked by Night (1948)
Heat (1995)
Heaven's Prisoners (1996)
Hellboy (2004)
High Sierra (1941)
Hitman (2007)
Hoffa (1992)
Hoodlum (1997)
Hostage (2005)
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
House of Games (1987)
I, the Jury (1982)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
In Bruges (2008)
In the Electric Mist (2009)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006)
Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006)
Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007)
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2008)
Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
King Kong (1976)
Knockaround Guys (2001)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lady in Cement (1968)
Land of Plenty (2004)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life* (2003)
Last Man Standing (1996)
Lat sau san taam (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled) (1992)
Le samouraï (1967)
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Linewatch (2008)
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Lone Star State of Mind (2002)
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
Lost Flight* (1969)
Love and a .45 (1994)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Major Payne (1995)
Man of the House (2005)
Man on Fire (2004)
Marathon Man (1976)
Margin for Murder (1981)
Margin for Murder (1981)
Marked for Death (1990)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
McHale's Navy (1994)
Meet The Spartans (2008)
Merrill's Marauders (1962)
Miami Blues (1990)
Miami Vice (2006)
Midway (1976)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
Miss Congeniality (2000)
Mitchell (1975)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Ms .45 (1981)
Murder by Numbers (2002)
My Name Is Bruce (2007)
Narc (2002)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
None But the Brave (1965)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
One, Two, Three (1961)
Operation Pacific (1951)
Out for Justice (1991)
Panic in the Year Zero! (1962)
Paycheck (2003)
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Pineapple Express (2008)
Platoon (1986)
Point Break (1991)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
Prime Cut* (1972)
Proof of Life (2000)
Pterodactyl (2005)
Public Enemies (2009)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Radical Jack (2000)
Rambo (a.k.a. Rambo 4) (2008)
Raw Deal (1986)
Red Dawn (1984)
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
Report to the Commissioner (1975)
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Revenge (1999)
Righteous Kill (2008)
Rising Sun (1993)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Ronin (1998)
Rosewood (1997)
Rules of Engagement (2000)
Running Scared (2006)
Rush (1991)
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Sahara (1943)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Saw (2004)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Scorpio (1973)
Se7en (1995)
Sergeant York (1941)
Shoot to Kill (1988)
Shooter (2007)
Short Circuit (1986)
Sin City (2005)
Skeleton Man (2004)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Smokin' Aces (2006)
Snatch (2000)
Sono Stato un Agente C.I.A. (a.k.a. Covert Action) (1978)
Spartan (2004)
Stand By Me (1986)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Starsky and Hutch (2004)
State of Grace* (1990)
Stone Cold (2005)
Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Straight into Darkness (2005)
Strange Days (1995)
Strategic Air Command (1955)
Street Kings (2008)
Sydney (a.k.a. Hard Eight) (1996)
Tears of the Sun (2003)
Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
The Angry Red Planet (1960)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Big Red One (1980)
The Blue Lightning (1986)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
The Boys in Company C (1978)
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Came to Cordura (1959)
The Cheap Detective (1978)
The Cotton Club (1984)
The Dark Half (1993)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Departed (2006)
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
The Devil's Rejects (2005)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Domino Principle (1977)
The Eagle has Landed (1977)
The Enemy Below (1957)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
The Fighting 69th (1940)
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
The Final Countdown (1980)
The French Connection (1971)
The Getaway (1972)
The Girl Hunters (1963)
The Godfather (1972)
The Great Raid (2005)
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
The Hot Spot (1990)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Hunter (1980)
The Killer Elite (1975)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Last Detail (1973)
The Last Hard Men (1976)
The Last Templar (2009)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Lost Battalion (2001)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
The Outfit (1973)
The Outfit (1993)
The Outsiders (1983)
The Package (1989)
The Phantom (1996)
The Postman (1997)
The Presidio (1988)
The Professionals (1966)
The Punisher (2004)
The Rat Patrol (1966)
The Rock (1996)
The Rocketeer (1991)
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
The Shadow (1994)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
The Survivors (1983)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
The Untouchables (1987)
The Wanderers (1979)
The Way of the Gun (2000)
The Wild Bunch* (1969)
The World is Not Enough (1999)
The Yakuza (1974)
Thelma and Louise (1991)
Them! (1954)
They Were Expendable (1945)
Thief (1981)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Thunderheart (1992)
Tigerland (2000)
Titanic (1997)
To H___ and Back (1955)
Top Secret!* (1984)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Trading Places (1983)
Training Day (2001)
Transformers (2007)
Transporter 3 (2008)
True Lies (1994)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
U-571 (2000)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Undead (2003)
Under Siege (1992)
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
Universal Soldier (1992)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Wake Island (1942)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Walk on Water (2004)
Walking the Edge (1983)
Wanted (2008)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)
War Hunt (1962)
War Wolves (2009)
Warrior of the Lost World (1983)
Watchmen (2009)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1972)
What Price Glory (1952)
White Heat (1949)
Windtalkers (2002)
Witless Protection (2008)
Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine* (2009)


[/list]The list has been updated, after our friend Tom, added all the latest submissions. Thanks Tom.

[Jim V]

First I moved this from USGI to the General forum since the topic is not correct for the original forum.

Extreme Predjudice - with Nick Nolte
The Getaway - the original with Steve McQueen not the remake
The Wild Bunch


For three, more will be added I am sure.

[garrettwc]

Ronin with Robert DeNiro, comes to mind right away.

There's a great quote in the movie about why he prefers the 1911, but I can't remember it now.

[wildon1911s]

Last Man Standing- Bruce Willis and Christopher Walken

[walangkatapat]

Thief with James Caan. Under Siege 2 with Steven Segal. Last Man Standing had lots of action.

[John]

Thief with James Caan. Under Siege 2 with Steven Segal. Last Man Standing had lots of action.
Segal movies are by far the best, as far as 1911s are concerned. The guy knows what he is doing, the pistols are very nice etc. You'll never see his finger inside the triggerguard etc. I just love his films for this reason. He is also great in knives, I remember a scene where he is fighting with a knife inside a ship's bridge, if I remember correctly, great scene.

[OD*]

Way of the Gun.

[Tom]

Ronin with Robert DeNiro, comes to mind right away.

There's a great quote in the movie about why he prefers the 1911, but I can't remember it now.


DeNiro: "Yeah, but it served my country well for a lot of years."


Tom

[Nikolai]

Greetings,
The movie "Heat" has some good scenes, as does the AGI home pistolsmithing videos. :)

A movie is a movie!

-Nikolai

[Hawkmoon]

Segal movies are by far the best, as far as 1911s are concerned. The guy knows what he is doing, the pistols are very nice etc. You'll never see his finger inside the triggerguard etc. I just love his films for this reason. He is also great in knives, I remember a scene where he is fighting with a knife inside a ship's bridge, if I remember correctly, great scene.
That was "Under Siege" -- the first one. Bad guy was Tommy Lee Jones.

From other things I've read, I believe Segal is a 1911 aficionado. I've seen most of his films, and I think he always uses a 1911

[Brian D.]

Though the 1911 had some other GREAT guns trying to steal the spotlight in The Untouchables, they held their own. That flick made me think there ought to be something like Cowboy Action matches for 1911s, Winchester '97s , and Thompson smg's. :D

[Tom]

The Colt 1911s used in the ending scenes of Titanic were beautiful. Improbably to have actually been aboard the ship at the time - but still beautiful.


Tom

[exitwounds]

Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks at the end of the movie.
U.S. Marshals - Tommy Lee Jones
Face Off - Nicholas Cage with twin Springfields.

[DienBienPhu]

"The Flight of the Intruder" has three or four nice M1911 scenes!

*a scene with actor William Dafoe cleaning and re-assembling a GI M1911A1.

* scene with William Dafoe firing his M1911 when the NVA try to capture him when he ejects from his jet. [from close observation, his M1911A1 looks like a commercial Springfield Armory? the finish is polished blued and the sides of the hammer are polished in the white

*Danny glover has a M1911A1 when he is shot down over Vietnam

"Forrest Gump"

a scene with forrest gump rescueing LT. Dan, and the LT is cursing and firing his M1911A1 into the jungle

Marathon Man starring Dustin Hoffman:

he uses a M1911A1

Platoon:

Sgt. Barnes uses a commercial polished blued M1911A1 in the VC village

Wind Talkers:

shows a scene with a Marine shooting down several Japanese soldiers with his M1911A1

[Jim V]

That was Nick Gage in Wind Talkers and by the sights on the pistol, it should have been a stock (except set up for blanks) Norinco.

[Moose63845]

You gotta have Cobra with Stalone, nothing like a cheesy 80's flick. I also liked The Punisher the new one, not the old Dalph Lundgren one. I think Segall used a Glock in Exit Wounds but I can't remember for sure, but most every one of his films he has a 1911. I have to agree with exit wounds though Nick Cage's gold plated Springfields with the dragons on em in Face Off were really cool.

[Fox]

I like the final or almost final scene in The Untouchables where Agent Ness is packing to leave his Chicago field office, and packs his gun and shoulder holster in a briefcase like he's done using it and glad to take it off, and it goes into the case with the work papers.

[John]

I like the final or almost final scene in The Untouchables where Agent Ness is packing to leave his Chicago field office, and packs his gun and shoulder holster in a briefcase like he's done using it and glad to take it off, and it goes into the case with the work papers.
This came up in the Mailing List as well. Can someone take over the role of compiling a list of all the movies mentionned here, so we can have a complete reference? I am not a movie fan, so most of them you refer to, I am not familiar with, probably have seen them, but the titles never mean anything to me, so ....

If someone can compile such a list, I would be happy to put it on the sites, for everyone to read (with full credit of course).

Rgds

[garrettwc]

Well, since we're compiling a list, let me add

"The Hunter" starring Steve McQueen.

[Sifu]

Folks -

Let's not forget the original incident where a 1911 was used, Gary Cooper in Sargeant York. The movie was based on the true WWI experience of the real Sargeant York who was later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Depending on the version you saw, Gary Cooper used an origianl German Officer's Walther pistol to dispatch 8 German Infrantrymen when he got mad after his buddy was killed. In reality, Sgt. York used a 1911. The 1911 could not be used in the movie prop because they could not get the 1911 to cycle blank rds.

The 1911 was developed for the military during the Phillipino incursion when the USMC-issued 38s were bouncing off the rubber breast plates the Phillipino guerillas were using for armor breast plates.
Trivia for your next Poker or Bridge night.

[Tom]

Sifu, you've been reading the latest Complete Book of 1911 haven't you?


Tom

[Sifu]

I'm sorry to say I havn't yet. But I will get to it. Where can I find it?

[Tom]

I got mine at the local supermarket magazine and book aisle of all places.

I asked if that's where you got your info because there's a whole article about 1911's in movies.


Tom

[Sentinel]

This came up in the Mailing List as well. Can someone take over the role of compiling a list of all the movies mentionned here, so we can have a complete reference? I am not a movie fan, so most of them you refer to, I am not familiar with, probably have seen them, but the titles never mean anything to me, so ....

If someone can compile such a list, I would be happy to put it on the sites, for everyone to read (with full credit of course).

Rgds

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Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Thief - James Caan
Under Siege 2 - Steven Segal (Most if not all Segal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
Heat - Al Pacino
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
The Punisher (New edition)
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson / Sam Elliott (Viet Nam)
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
We Were Soldiers - Sam Elliott
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Resident Evil - ?
Seven - Brad Pitt
Blackhawk Down - ?
The Rock - Ed Harris
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman

[garrettwc]

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U.S. Marshals - Tommy Lee Jones


Sorry, I should have caught this one earlier but the above is not correct. In US Marshals Tommy Lee Jones carries a Glock 22.

Well known quote from the movie is when the new guy shows up for duty with a bright shiny Taurus. Jones tells him "get rid of that nickel plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock"

The confusion comes from the publicity photo for the movie posters and the cover of the DVD. He is holding a 1911 in all the pictures, but actually had a Glock in the movie.

[Sentinel]

Sorry, I should have caught this one earlier but the above is not correct. In US Marshals Tommy Lee Jones carries a Glock 22.

Well known quote from the movie is when the new guy shows up for duty with a bright shiny Taurus. Jones tells him "get rid of that nickel plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock"

The confusion comes from the publicity photo for the movie posters and the cover of the DVD. He is holding a 1911 in all the pictures, but actually had a Glock in the movie.

Error corrected. It's been a while since I saw the movie, I couldn't recall if a 1911 made an appearance. I know it is heavy with Glocks though. Thanks for letting me know.

[Fox]

Before he was Col. Nathan R. Jessup in A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson was Billy "Bad ***" Buddusky, a U.S. Navy Shore Patrolman assigned to guard a young prisoner in transit to serve out his sentence in The Last Detail.

Buddusky tells his fellow Shore Patrolman, "No *#@!!* Navy's going to give some poor **!!@* kid eight years in the #@!* brig without me taking him out for the time of his *#@!!* life.". Good practice for the later Col. Jessup role.

As Billy "Bad ***" Buddusky in 1973, Nicholson carried an m1911 sidearm.

Edit: "Shore Patrolman" wrong terminology. The characters Navy Signalman First Class Buddusky and Gunner's Mate First Class "Mule" Mulhall were detailed as shore patrol guards.
Nicholson was nominated for 'best actor' Golden Globe and Academy Award; he won 'best actor' Cannes Film Festival and critics' awards for this in 1974. Academy Award nominations for Robert Towne, screenplay and Randy Quaid, supporting actor (as the young prisoner).

[Sentinel]

Before he was Col. Nathan R. Jessup in A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson was Billy "Bad ***" Buddusky, a U.S. Navy Shore Patrolman assigned to guard a young prisoner in transit to serve out his sentence in The Last Detail.

Buddusky tells his fellow Shore Patrolman, "No *#@!!* Navy's going to give some poor **!!@* kid eight years in the #@!* brig without me taking him out for the time of his *#@!!* life.". Good practice for the later Col. Jessup role.

As Billy "Bad ***" Buddusky in 1973, Nicholson carried an m1911 sidearm.

Updated...

[Jim V]

Sifu, Cooper used a Luger in Sergeant York.

Three more for the list:

We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson / Sam Elliott (Viet Nam)
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)

Some 1911 work, IIRC, in The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)

[Tom]

A couple 1911s were used as props in the movie - never fired, though.


Tom

[Sentinel]

Updated...

[Sifu]

JimV - You're right. My oversight. I mut have been thnking about my German Walthers as I was writing. Thanks for the correction.

[Sentinel]

Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Thief - James Caan
Under Siege 2 - Steven Segal (Most if not all Segal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
Heat - Al Pacino
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
The Punisher (New edition)
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson / Sam Elliott (Viet Nam)
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Resident Evil - ?
Seven - Brad Pitt
Blackhawk Down - ?
The Rock - Ed Harris
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
Hostage - Bruce Willis
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach

[John]

Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Thief - James Caan
Under Siege 2 - Steven Segal (Most if not all Segal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
Heat - Al Pacino
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
The Punisher (New edition)
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson / Sam Elliott (Viet Nam)
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
We Were Soldiers - Sam Elliott
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Resident Evil - ?
Seven - Brad Pitt
Blackhawk Down - ?
The Rock - Ed Harris
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
Thank you for compiling this list Sentinel. Do I have your permission to use it in M1911.ORG Home Page as well?

Rgds

[Jim V]

A couple 1911s were used as props in the movie - never fired, though.


Tom

So, they had non-speaking roles, eh?

John, if you use the list at M1911.Org, you might want to check for duplicates, I see "We Were Soldiers" listed twice.

[Sentinel]

Thank you for compiling this list Sentinel. Do I have your permission to use it in M1911.ORG Home Page as well?

Rgds

Absolutely...

[Sifu]

Last night while watching "Ace Ventura w/ Jim Carey", the corrupt policeman was carrying a government-issue 1911 in a uniformed police holster.

[thirteen]

come on guys, the Viet Nam scene in Rules on Engagement!

[Sifu]

Hostage w/ Bruce WillisKimber TLE carryed cocked-and-locked Mexican-style

[John]

Hostage w/ Bruce WillisKimber TLE carryed cocked-and-locked Mexican-style
Sentinel, will you update the list, or shall I?

Rgds

[Sentinel]

come on guys, the Viet Nam scene in Rules on Engagement!

thirteen,

Can you advise of the main actor's name? I will add to the list then.

[Sentinel]

Blackhawk Down - ?
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Heat - Al Pacino
Hostage - Bruce Willis
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
Resident Evil - ?
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Rules of Engagement - Tommy Lee Jones/Samuel L. Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
Seven - Brad Pitt
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Punisher (New edition)
The Rock - Ed Harris
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Sum of all Fears - Ben Affleck
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Thief - James Caan
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Under Siege 2 - Steven Segal (Most if not all Segal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson / Sam Elliott (Viet Nam)
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage

[Tom]

thirteen,

Can you advise of the main actor's name? I will add to the list then.

Probably either Tommy Lee Jones or Samuel L. Jackson.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160797/


Tom

[Hawkmoon]

Probably either Tommy Lee Jones or Samuel L. Jackson.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160797/


Tom
Equal billing. Both played key parts.

Reviews in the link panned the movie, which just shows that the reviewers were not veterans, and did not understand what they saw.

[Sentinel]

Blackhawk Down - ?
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Heat - Al Pacino
Hostage - Bruce Willis
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
Resident Evil - ?
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Rules of Engagement - Tommy Lee Jones/Samuel L. Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
Seven - Brad Pitt
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Punisher (New edition)
The Rock - Ed Harris
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Thief - James Caan
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Under Siege 2 - Steven Segal (Most if not all Segal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson / Sam Elliott (Viet Nam)
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage

[Sifu]

The Sum of all Fears w/ Ben Affleck

http://www.sumofallfearsmovie.com/images/splashindex_10.jpg

[stumbler]

How many of the "1911's" were actually Llama 9mm's? For a period of time it was hard to get the 1911 to work with blanks, but a 9mm worked and the Llama "looked" close enough.

[mrjata]

If I am not mistaken, what about Al Pacino, "Scent of a Woman" HOO HAAA! :eek:

[Sentinel]

If I am not mistaken, what about Al Pacino, "Scent of a Woman" HOO HAAA! :eek:

I've not seen this movie. Isn't it a romantic comedy? How does the 1911 play a part?

[Sentinel]

Blackhawk Down - ?
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Heat - Al Pacino
Hostage - Bruce Willis
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
Resident Evil - ?
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Rules of Engagement - Tommy Lee Jones/Samuel L. Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
Seven - Brad Pitt
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Punisher (New edition)
The Rock - Ed Harris
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Sum of all Fears - Ben Affleck
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Thief - James Caan
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Under Siege 2 - Steven Segal (Most if not all Segal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson / Sam Elliott (Viet Nam)
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage

[stumbler]

I've not seen this movie. Isn't it a romantic comedy? How does the 1911 play a part?

Al Pacino plays a blind retired military officer. There is one interesting scene almost dedicated to the 1911.

[Sentinel]

Al Pacino plays a blind retired military officer. There is one interesting scene almost dedicated to the 1911.

Thanks Stumbler. I guess I need to see the movie now...

[Sentinel]

Blackhawk Down - ?
City Heat - Clint Eastwood/Burt Reynolds
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Heat - Al Pacino
Hostage - Bruce Willis
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
Resident Evil - ?
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Rules of Engagement - Tommy Lee Jones/Samuel L. Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Scent of a Woman - Al Pacino
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
Seven - Brad Pitt
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Punisher (New edition)
The Rock - Ed Harris
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Sum of all Fears - Ben Affleck
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Thief - James Caan
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Under Siege 2 - Steven Seagal (Most if not all Seagal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson / Sam Elliott (Viet Nam)
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage

[mrjata]

In this movie Al Picino is a retired Army(?) colonel? and is blind considering suicide. He strips and re-assembles a 1911 army issue colt for the quickest time. The whole movie is kind neat. Picture a bilnd man driving a Farari(sp). HOO HAA( had to see it). Older cheap rental.........get it.




Dan Wesson Dave Pruit ser. no. #93

[John]

If I am not mistaken, what about Al Pacino, "Scent of a Woman" HOO HAAA! :eek:
Yes, very correct, an excellent film!

[Sifu]

Tagline: Col. Frank Slade has a very special plan for the weekend. It involves travel, women, good food, fine wine, the tango, chauffeured limousines and a loaded forty-five. And he's bringing Charlie along for the ride.

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated. A very moving piece.

Al Pacino (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199/)... Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade

[Sentinel]

Blackhawk Down - ?
City Heat - Clint Eastwood/Burt Reynolds
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
Flight of the Phoenix - Dennis Quaid
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Heat - Al Pacino
Hostage - Bruce Willis
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
Resident Evil - ?
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Rules of Engagement - Tommy Lee Jones/Samuel L. Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Scent of a Woman - Al Pacino
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
Seven - Brad Pitt
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Punisher (New edition)
The Rock - Ed Harris
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Sum of all Fears - Ben Affleck
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Thief - James Caan
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Under Siege 2 - Steven Seagal (Most if not all Seagal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson/Sam Elliott (Vietnam)
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage

[Wes Janson]

For what it's worth, the new Flight of the Phoenix has Dennis Quaid shooting several nomads with what is likely an old M1911A1. The distances involved were moderately far, for a pistol, but seemed fairly plausible. What's interesting is his reaction when he goes to shoot the last nomad, riding away on horseback. I'm not certain if he was hesitating, or maybe was actually out of ammo (due to a bad slide stop/magazine interaction). I didn't count, but I believe he fired no more than 7 or 8 shots, which is fairly plausible as well.

[Sentinel]

Bat 21 - Gene Hackman
Blackhawk Down - ?
City Heat - Clint Eastwood/Burt Reynolds
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
Flight of the Phoenix - Dennis Quaid
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Heat - Al Pacino
Hostage - Bruce Willis
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
Resident Evil - ?
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Rules of Engagement - Tommy Lee Jones/Samuel L. Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Scent of a Woman - Al Pacino
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
Seven - Brad Pitt
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Punisher (New edition)
The Rock - Ed Harris
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Sum of all Fears - Ben Affleck
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Thief - James Caan
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Under Siege 2 - Steven Seagal (Most if not all Seagal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson/Sam Elliott (Vietnam)
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage

[garrettwc]

I just though of another one.

Gene Hackman in Bat21. It's about an Army officer whose observation plane gets shot down behind enemy lines in Vietnam. He spends several days trying to E&E and get back to friendly territory.

[Sentinel]

Bat 21 - Gene Hackman
Blackhawk Down - ?
City Heat - Clint Eastwood/Burt Reynolds
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
Flight of the Phoenix - Dennis Quaid
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Heat - Al Pacino
Hostage - Bruce Willis
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
Resident Evil - ?
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Rules of Engagement - Tommy Lee Jones/Samuel L. Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Scent of a Woman - Al Pacino
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
Seven - Brad Pitt
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Mummy
The Mummy 2
The Punisher (New edition)
The Rock - Ed Harris
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Sum of all Fears - Ben Affleck
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Thief - James Caan
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Under Siege 2 - Steven Seagal (Most if not all Seagal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson/Sam Elliott (Vietnam)
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage

[dsk]

Don't forget The Mummy & Mummy 2.

[eddailey]

I just watched "Man on Fire" with Denzel Washington, there were a couple of 1911s shown.

Ed

[Sentinel]

I just watched "Man on Fire" with Denzel Washington, there were a couple of 1911s shown.

Ed

I know Glocks made a huge appearance but I don't immediately recall a 1911. Can you refresh my memory?

[Sentinel]

Bat 21 - Gene Hackman
Blackhawk Down - ?
City Heat - Clint Eastwood/Burt Reynolds
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
Flight of the Phoenix - Dennis Quaid
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Heat - Al Pacino
Hostage - Bruce Willis
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
Man on Fire - Denzel Washington
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
Resident Evil - ?
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Rules of Engagement - Tommy Lee Jones/Samuel L. Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Scent of a Woman - Al Pacino
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
Seven - Brad Pitt
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Mummy
The Mummy 2
The Punisher (New edition)
The Rock - Ed Harris
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Sum of all Fears - Ben Affleck
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Thief - James Caan
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Under Siege 2 - Steven Seagal (Most if not all Seagal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson/Sam Elliott (Vietnam)
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage

[walangkatapat]

That was "Under Siege" -- the first one. Bad guy was Tommy Lee Jones.

From other things I've read, I believe Segal is a 1911 aficionado. I've seen most of his films, and I think he always uses a 1911

True. One of the gun rags years ago did an article on Segal. Here's a little of what I could find: http://www.tusseycustom.com/articlecustompistolsss.htm

[eddailey]

I know Glocks made a huge appearance but I don't immediately recall a 1911. Can you refresh my memory?
When he went to buy his "arsenal" there were 2 on the table. When he took down "The Voice's" brother he used a shotgun and a Commander length 1911.

Ed

[RickB]

Someone identified the gun in Marathon Man as a M1911A1; it was a Commander.
The nickel-plated pistols in both Pulp Fiction and Untouchables were Stars. I think the latter might be referred to in the flick as a 9mm, indicating that it wasn't supposed to be a stand-in for a "Colt .45", as is usually the case.
I watched Thief the other night, just because I'd heard it featured some 1911 play, and because James Caan apparently spent some time at Gunsite preparing for the role. Well, the gun was certainly cool, a very shiny long-slide Colt, and Caan certainly looked "tactical" as he cleared the mob boss' house, but his grip (two thumb up) and stance (modified Weaver) looked really forced and unnatural. Oh, well.

[OD*]

John Travolta used this 1911A1 Auto Ordnance .45 ACP pistol that has been chromed and given pearl grips, serial #AOC10681.
http://www.longmountain.com/movieguns/PulpFiction/DSCN9967.jpg

Samuel L. Jackson used this Star Model B 9mm pistol that has been chromed and given pearl grips, serial #B257963.
http://www.longmountain.com/movieguns/PulpFiction/DSCN9968.jpg

James Caan used a Jim Hoag longslide in Thief

Kevin Costner carried a 1911A1 during the movie, but in the firing scenes he used a Star Model B 9mm. Ellis Props & Graphics, serial #366356.
http://www.longmountain.com/movieguns/TheUntouchables/DSCN9995.jpg

[Sentinel]

Bat 21 - Gene Hackman
Blackhawk Down - ?
City Heat - Clint Eastwood/Burt Reynolds
Cobra - Slyvester Stallone
Extreme Predjudice - Nick Nolte
Face Off - Nicholas Cage and John Travolta
Farewell To The King - Nick Nolte (South Pacific WWII)
Flight of the Phoenix - Dennis Quaid
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks
Heat - Al Pacino
Hostage - Bruce Willis
I, the Jury - Stacy Keach
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis
Magnum P.I. - Tom Selleck
Man on Fire - Denzel Washington
Marathon Man - Dustin Hoffman
Miami Blues - Alec Baldwin
Platoon - Tom Berenger/Willem Dafoe
Pulp Fiction - John Travolta
Resident Evil - ?
Road To Perdition - Tom Hanks
Ronin - Robert DeNiro
Rules of Engagement - Tommy Lee Jones/Samuel L. Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - Tom Hanks
Scent of a Woman - Al Pacino
Sergeant York - Gary Cooper (Used 1911 in war, Luger in movie)
Seven - Brad Pitt
SWAT - Samuel L. Jackson
The Big Lebowski - John Goodman
The Flight of the Intruder - Danny Glover
The Getaway - Steve McQueen
The Hunt for Red October - Alec Baldwin
The Hunter - Steve McQueen
The Last Detail - Jack Nicholson
The Lost Battalion - Rick Schroder (WWI)
The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart (as props only)
The Mummy
The Mummy 2
The Punisher (New edition)
The Rock - Ed Harris
The Sand Pebbles - Steve McQueen (China)
The Sum of all Fears - Ben Affleck
The Untouchables - Kevin Costner
The Wild Bunch - William Holden
Thief - James Caan
Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford
Titanic ("Improbable but beautiful")
Under Siege 2 - Steven Seagal (Most if not all Seagal movies)
Way of the Gun - Benicio Del Toro
We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson/Sam Elliott (Vietnam)
Wind Talkers - Nicholas Cage

[Nakanokalronin]

The newest Punisher movie had some really nice looking 1911s in them. After looking at a close up picture of one I kinda want to set up mine the same way.

[dsk]

Funny thing, but I was watching the animated film The Incredibles and noticed how the film was set around the 1960's or so. During the scene where Mr. Incredible and Frozone get cornered by the police inside the jewelry store, I can only surmise that the pistols the cops were using were 1911's.

Alright alright, time to go to bed now.

[Sabre]

dsk, in the 60's, shouldn't the police have been using .38 Special revolvers?

Or could you clearly see that they were automatics? I havn't seen the movie, but I've heard great things...

[White]

The Untouchables. The whole Capone Crew had Flashy Blue 1911's, exception of the guy wearing white all the time. He sported a Nickel plated pistol. Elliot Ness had one to.

[dsk]

dsk, in the 60's, shouldn't the police have been using .38 Special revolvers?

Or could you clearly see that they were automatics? I havn't seen the movie, but I've heard great things...

Well, being an animated movie the guns were very crudely drawn, but they definitely had the feature characteristics of 1911's. I find it interesting how in many feature-length animated films, the characters are often drawn/rendered in exacting detail but the "props" around them are often quite crude. It shows just how tedious it is to make an animated film, and how often shortcuts are made wherever it is felt they can get away with it.

[gwalchmai]

Has anyone mentioned Stand by Me yet? Wil Weaton carries a 1911 on their camping trip.

Also Terminator ("long slide, please") and Terminator 2

[papashah41]

Didn't see "Training Day" on the list.

Twords the end of the move, Ethan Hawke's character jumps on the hood of Denzel Washington's Monte Carlo (from about 2 stories up! LOL). Washington pulls a 1911 from under the dash. Hawke eventually gets the Colt...and eventually shoots Washington in the a$$ with said Colt!
....rather "hollywood" of 'em to show a single action 1911 being fired....then later having a character manually "thumb-cock" the same pistol (for "effect", I assume).....

[MrBusiness]

I think in Falling Down (Michael Douglas, Robert DuVall) the scene where Douglas' character, Foster, and the shop keeper go into the store room the shop keeper pulls out a 1911. I also think later in the movie when Foster is talking to the road construction worker (about to fire the rocket down the tunnel) he lifts up his shirt to reveal a 1911. (The same gun from the surplus store)

This will need confirmed though, as I was pretty tired while watching.

[papashah41]

I think in Falling Down (Michael Douglas, Robert DuVall) the scene where Douglas' character, Foster, and the shop keeper go into the store room the shop keeper pulls out a 1911. I also think later in the movie when Foster is talking to the road construction worker (about to fire the rocket down the tunnel) he lifts up his shirt to reveal a 1911. (The same gun from the surplus store)

This will need confirmed though, as I was pretty tired while watching.
Close......the Army/Navy store shopkeeper had a 9mm Beretta..........HOWEVER, Douglass does end up with a 1911 which he flashes to the construction worker. This is the same pistol that he has on the pier at the end of the movie. I think he got the Colt from the gymbag-o-guns.

Just bought the DVD at "Wally World" for $7! Not a bad deal!

[Aaron]

You guys need to check out Sin City. 1911's all over the place, with lots of nice close ups. Oh yeah, they are all stainless Springfield GI models. Poor Benecio Del Torro, OUCH!!!

[MrBusiness]

Also, doesn't Mira Sorvino in The Replacement Killers, rip out a 1911 from under her desk? Been awhile since I've seen this one.

[dep2386]

Man of the House:Tommy Lee Jones (AL Gore's College Roommate) Plays a Texas Ranger guarding college cheerleaders. He carrys a 1911. It's a funny movie.

[hipshot percussion]

The Getaway the remake even it the poliltics of the two stars make you want to puke, there were some excellent 1911 scenes.

[Sifu]

Jewel of the Nile, 1985 w/ Michael Douglas. When Douglas is approached to go after the jewel, the guy is holding a 1911 Govt model on him. Danny Devito has been stuck to the wall with Knives. They blow up his boat, he get p*ssed and accepts the challenge to go after the jewel of the nile.

[Nakanokalronin]

Also, doesn't Mira Sorvino in The Replacement Killers, rip out a 1911 from under her desk? Been awhile since I've seen this one.

Its definatly not a 1911 but some sort of other Auto. I saw it a few months ago and the main bunch of the guns in it a Beretta 92FS's. The gun under the desk was either a Glock or a H&K.

[Sifu]

SAW w/ Danny Glover on DirecTV Pay Perview now. Good movie with a real twist toward the end. After his partner is killed and Danny has his throat cut, he's retired on a Medical discharge but won't give up on the case and tracks the doctor he thinks is guilty. His CCW is a 1911.

[Moose63845]

I don't think anyone mentioned Goodfella's yet. Nother mobster movie with 1911's.

[John]

Sentinel,

Did any one draw your attention to this thread (http://forum.m1911.org/showthread.php?p=28267#post28267) on the "Sin City"?

Time for you to add some more titles!

[Tom]

MrsKey actually deserves the credit for spotting this one:

Miss Congeniality. In the final scenes, Agent Eric Matthews draws his weapon and attempts to ascend a spiral staircase, clearly brandishing a 1911. If the moviemakers were accurate, it should be a Springfield Professional model. In the movie, most of the same details are visible: rear sights, trigger, hammer, stainless barrel bushing. The only things not clearly visible are markings on the slide.


Tom

[Icculus]

Howdy!

This is actually my first post on the bulletin board (not my last!). There is one excellent movie which features some 1911's that I have on DVD (you should be able to rent it at the video store). In the movie "Love and a .45" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110395/), Gil Bellows' character, Watty Watts, carries one.

"Only 2 things you need in life to get by on this planet: love and a .45"

[John]

MrsKey actually deserves the credit for spotting this one:

Miss Congeniality. In the final scenes, Agent Eric Matthews draws his weapon and attempts to ascend a spiral staircase, clearly brandishing a 1911. If the moviemakers were accurate, it should be a Springfield Professional model. In the movie, most of the same details are visible: rear sights, trigger, hammer, stainless barrel bushing. The only things not clearly visible are markings on the slide.


Tom
Are you sure you saw it too? Maybe Mrs. Key was day-dreaming of the gun you promised her?

[Tom]

Are you sure you saw it too? Maybe Mrs. Key was day-dreaming of the gun you promised her?

LOL No, I saw it, too. I'm a huge Sandra Bullock fan. :)

But seriously, I'm trying to convince her to trade in her Taurus Millennium 9mm "girlie gun" for a brand new Springfield Micro-Compact G.I. we saw at a local pawn shop. :D


Tom

[John]

LOL No, I saw it, too. I'm a [i]huge[/i[ Sandra Bullock fan. :)

But seriously, I'm trying to convince her to trade in her Taurus Millennium 9mm "girlie gun" for a brand new Springfield Micro-Compact G.I. we saw at a local pawn shop. :D


Tom
Convince her? Is that so difficult? I wouldn't have think so, but then you never know how a woman's mind works.

LoL

[Tom]

John,

You're assuming that a woman's mind works? My jury is still out on that one. :D


Tom

Oh wait! I'm at work now. MrsKey is home with the .45 and 50 rounds of JHP. I really didn't calculate the odds of this succeeding this time.

[Dog Off Leash]

"Black Hawk Down - ???"

You can clearly see the 2 Delta snipers (Gordon & Shughart) using 1911's to defend Durant's crash site, right before they're both killed.

[wwfeatherston]

"Though the 1911 had some other GREAT guns trying to steal the spotlight in The Untouchables, they held their own. That flick made me think there ought to be something like Cowboy Action matches for 1911s, Winchester '97s , and Thompson smg's. "

We are planning one for next month at our club!- a CAS event, but with 1911's and pump shotguns. (thompsons being too much fun for the powers-that-be, to allow here in NZ )

[DonS]

That was "Under Siege" -- the first one. Bad guy was Tommy Lee Jones.

From other things I've read, I believe Segal is a 1911 aficionado. I've seen most of his films, and I think he always uses a 1911

I saw one of his 1911s at a gun show . . . but I can't stand the guy. Too much ego.

Anyone mention "The Wild Bunch"? Best damn movie ever made.

[DonS]

Well, since we're compiling a list, let me add

"The Hunter" starring Steve McQueen.

"The Getaway", also staring McQueen.

[DonS]

There was a Van Damm movie set in a small town in the US SouthWest where he used a 1911 (and drove a Harley, IIRC). It was the only Van Damm movie I ever saw that I liked . . .

[Sifu]

Check out all those movies mentioned over on the sightm1911 site. Too many to mention.http://www.sightm1911.com/MovieGallery.htm

[T.Sensei]

Did anyone mention Sin City yet? There were some gorgeous shots of the 1911 in that movie.

[hipshot percussion]

agent jackson in lone wolf mcquade, and the nasty cuban both carry 1911. texas ranger jj mcquade (chuck norris) packs a smith 29.

[Brian D.]

Next time you update the list, please add Spartan, with Val Kilmer. Never thought of David Mamet directing an "action flick", much less one with such good weaponcraft--or as I like to call it, "Gun Fu"!

[Tom]

Did anyone mention Sin City yet? There were some gorgeous shots of the 1911 in that movie.

Yeah, back on Page 8. There's even an entire thread on that movie, too:

http://forum.m1911.org/showthread.php?p=28267#post28267

[wwfeatherston]

"Though the 1911 had some other GREAT guns trying to steal the spotlight in The Untouchables, they held their own. That flick made me think there ought to be something like Cowboy Action matches for 1911s, Winchester '97s , and Thompson smg's. "

We are planning one for next month at our club!- a CAS event, but with 1911's and pump shotguns. (thompsons being too much fun for the powers-that-be, to allow here in NZ )



Well, the day was a great success!

Two stages, with one magazine change for the 1911's and one with a part reload for the pump guns. We set up two sets of plates between 10 and 25 metres for the pistol and five plates for the shotgun, at about 10 metres.

Very fast moving, with the all stages completed in well under 60 seconds per shooter.

To keep a level playing field, magazine capacity was set at seven rounds for the pistol and five for the shotgun- and no optical sights.

We will be making this shoot a regular event!

[John]

Make sure you invite a good moovie director and your club will be featured in this thread soon. LoL

[Dale]

I can't belive "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Jacket" haven't been mentioned.

[John]

Hey Sentinel, are you updating the list my friend? I assume it's about time we copy it to its own thread, and make it a sticky.

Rgds

[Tom]

I got one I want to add: Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Looks to be a couple 1911 pistols (along with lots of other fun toys) featured prominently.

[Land]

"Be Cool," based on Elmore Leonard's book of the same title and the follow-up to "Get Shorty" with John Travolta as Chili Palmer, has a bunch of 1911s in the scenes when the record producer played by Cedric the Entertainer brings his crew of enforcers around (one of the gansta guys is prone to negligent dicharges).

In addition to Travolta and Cedric, the movie has Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughan, Danny Devito, James Woods, Steven Tyler (yes, of Aerosmith), Harvey Keitel, Gene Simmons, Anna Nicole Smith, Joe Perry -- heck, all these people:check out he IMdb for the huge cast (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377471/fullcredits)

Regards,
Chris

[ArmyCop]

What did Tom Cruise use in the scene where he wacked two muggers who had taken his briefcase?

Clip for this scene?

[Jeffrey]

What did Tom Cruise use in the scene where he wacked two muggers who had taken his briefcase?

Clip for this scene?

If I'm not mistaken they were HK USP's.

[Hunter]

Not to get off topic but post #11 by Brian D and his idea of action shooting using 1911s, Thompsons, and 1897 Winchester sounds like that could be real fun. They are all some of my most favorite guns.

[Brian D.]

Well Hunter, truth be told one of the founders of the Single Action Shooting Society ('Judge Roy Bean' a/k/a Harper Creigh) may have thought up the "Roaring '20s" idea a little before me. We were discussing other shooting sports over a Jameson's and the subject came up. Apparently we think along the same lines, when it comes to having fun.

[Tom]

Caught Point Break on TV last week. There's a scene towards the end where the bad guys are robbing a bank, and it looks as though Patrick Swayze's character is carrying a long-slide 1911.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102685/

[Hunter]

I watched the movie remake of the T.V. show of Starsky and Hutch and the character of Starsky carried a 1911. I never got a good look at the pistol but I think it was a Kimber.

[The Sheriff]

Last Man Standing does a great job with it. It's not exactly realistic, but it's a hell of a lot of fun to watch.

[Chaindog7777]

Desperado, Once upon a time in Mexico, Kill Bill Volume 2

[Hunter]

Delta Force with Chuck Norris.

[John]

Please folks, when you post a movie, post the name of the actor who was holding the 1911 as well.

[Chaindog7777]

I apologize John,
Desperado: Guy who plays Bucho...
Once upon a time in Mexico: One of the Mariachi's two friends.
Kill Bill Volume 2: Uma Thurman

[Tom]

There's a new movie coming out called "A History of Violence". In just the previews you can clearly see a 1911 being brandished about by the bad guy. And here is a copy of the movie poster. Damn if that doesn't look like a Springfield Mil-Spec. :D

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0399146/history45.jpg

[Hunter]

Stand by me. Wil Wheaton shoots it once toward the beginning of the movie and defends himself and his friends at the end with it.

[Tom]

Looks like the link from IMDb.com isn't working. Sorry about that. Here's an Apple QuickTime link to the preview:

http://movies.apple.com/movies/newline/ahistoryofviolence/ahistoryofviolence_480.mov

[Jeffrey]

Not a big movie buff, especially what they show nowadays, but correct me if I'm wrong here because I know he was famous for carrying revolvers. What about the movie Patton? Was he shooting at the German planes with a 1911?

[Tom]

What about the movie Patton? Was he shooting at the German planes with a 1911?

Good point! It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I believe you are correct. I do recall his firing at the plane was with a semi-automatic - and that would have to be a 1911.

Maybe he borrowed it from Omar Bradley so he wouldn't have to get his precious wheel guns dirty. :)

I'll have to rent the movie and check that out. If you're right, good eye there, Wingwiper. :D

[Jeffrey]

Also, At Close Range with Christopher Walken and Sean Penn.

[OD*]

Originally Posted by usafsog
What about the movie Patton? Was he shooting at the German planes with a 1911?

I believe he was using a 1903 Pocket Hammerless, it wasn't a 1911.

[Jeffrey]

I believe he was using a 1903 Pocket Hammerless, it wasn't a 1911.

I stand corrected. :o Thanks OD*. :)

[KungFu954]

The Getaway (remake)-Alec Baldwin Kim basinger

[mike193inf]

Hi all,
First post here for a long-time lurker. Brian D. above mentioned "Spartan" and I second that one. The reason the pistol work is so good is that a guy by the name of Eric Haney was the tech. advisor. Eric is a retired Army Delta type, but also served in regular units- where I met him- he was my battalion Sgt. Major in Panama in the late 80's. His book "Inside Delta Force" was/is a big seller. He loves 1911's as most professionals do. Look for a show on TV this fall that he's co-producing- tenatively called "The Unit" it's about a Delta-like spec-ops unit that goes after various evil-doers. Look for lots of 1911 action. He was talking Fox but I think CBS ended up buying the show.

[Hunter]

I just watched the movie Sin City mainly to see all the Springfields mentioned. Really did not care for the movie. It was a little far fetched and too much violence toward women.

[The Sheriff]

A little far fetched? It was absolutely crazy. It was supposed to be. Does Sin City have a lot of Springfields? I saw it a while ago and didn't really pay much attention. It's nearly like looking for Colts and Remingtons in a western.

[Hunter]

Exit Wounds, Steven Segal

[triggercontrol]

Alien vs. Predator.
and Resident Evil.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/wingedliberty/mila2.jpg

[jslobum]

I gotta watch more than the Disney channel.

[Chaindog7777]

Resident Evil, Michelle Rodriguez packs a Springfield 1911. It is sezzy, you get a great view of it on the train when Milla blasts the Hunter.

[0311 George-Az]

My neighbor gave me a "Wild Bunch" tape. Takes place in the early 1900's. Water cooled machine guns and Colt auto-pistols. William Holden, Ben Johnson, Tom Ryan and a bunch of others. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Even tho it is a early 70's movie it seems current and pretty violent in the Tarantino way.

Seagal tried/hung out with Seal Team 5 in the early 90's. He treated the men pretty well but after a while I think the boys kinda tired of him. This is only second hand info, as I hung around Coronado a while myself.

[rlltdjpr]

There are a lot of 1911 shots in this movie/show, but I don't know any actors' names from it.

--there is a scene in the last portion where a GI has shot British soliders and shoots another GI with his 1911, I'll try for actor's names.

[Tom]

Everything you wanted to know about Band of Brothers:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185906/

[rhtwist]

The Thing from Another World. Kenneth Toby, Ann Sheriden and James Arness as the Thing. Also use of an M2 carbine.

[Tom]

The Thing from Another World.

LOL Sounds like something that should have been spoofed on MST3K!

[rhtwist]

I'm unfamiliar with the MST3K reference. What was/is that?

rhtwist

[Tom]

You live under a rock?!? :) MST3K - also known as Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show that would heckle and add running commentary to really bad movies. In fact, we just watched their take on Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, probably one of the worst movies ever made.

If you've ever watched a bad movie and muttered comments about it under your breath, you owe it to yourself to look for MST3K episodes.

[rhtwist]

You live under a rock?!? No just South Florida :) Now I remember hearing about that show. "The Thing from another World" is the name for the movie commonly called "The Thing". B&W, future star of TV's Gunsmoke as the creature, based on the short story "Who goes there". Unfortunately, the venerable .45 proves ineffective.

[jdr american]

Just a minute . AS soon as I get this boulder off me, I'll see if I can dig this out in my mined.

[mistermullens]

Sin City - Benicio Del Toro and Mickey Rourke (Same gun and it was a Springfield)

[Moose63845]

3,000 Miles to Graceland, Kevin Costners character carries 2 nickel plated 1911's.

[Tom]

I've got one to add: The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen as an American sailor in 1926 China. Standard sidearms were the 1911!

[Moose63845]

The Blues Brothers with Belushi and Akroyd one of the IL State Troopers is carrying one, points it at the Good Old Boys after they crash into each other.

[3006mv]

"Sin City", basically a Springfield Armory commercial. and A good small release, soon out on dvd look for it 'The Great Raid"

[Hunter]

Animal house when Flounder shoots the blank at Needlemier's horse in the deans office. good movie

[Bluey]

About the Wild Bunch, I'm not sure if anyone has picked up on it but I was reading an article on 1911's usage in the movies and I was surprised to find the .45s hardly worked with the old style blanks unless you had fully crimped blanks that simulates ball ammo. So, at the time The Wild Bunch was made, they used Spanish Star Model B 9MM because they mimic the 1911s and it had to work reliably with blanks.

[Bluey]

BTW, Dash Mihok was his name who played Doll in 'The Thin Red Line' and he used the 1911 in assaulting the bunker.

[Tom]

. . . they used Spanish Star Model B 9MM because they mimic the 1911s and it had to work reliably with blanks.

Another work-around employed by Hollywood was substituting the Model 1902 Colt .38 in place of the 1911 since both pistols look similar. The Fighting 69th starring James Cagney used that trick.

[jok]

Hard to Kill-Steven Seagal

[jridg]

Add to the list

The Flight of the Intruder - Willem Dafoe

[madmatt]

The first of the great John Woo “two-handed” .45 action films, The Killer (1989) starring Chow Yun Fat. Is easy to see why Hollywood wanted Woo for their action films.

[Slimbo]

the actor in love and a .45 was gil bellows.

[Pepe308]

For Black Hawk Down, don't know the actors two delta snipers who used the 1911 to rescue the pilot Mike Durant but in honor of the two brave souls R.I.P, they are sgts. Randy Shugart and Gary Gordon.

[AnimalKracker]

Man of the House ---Tommy Lee Jones

[AnimalKracker]

True. One of the gun rags years ago did an article on Segal. Here's a little of what I could find: http://www.tusseycustom.com/articlecustompistolsss.htm
That's the link I was looking for. I'd seen it awhile back. Thanks

[Sgt. Quincannon]

"A Bridge Too Far", (WW II) Sean Connery and James Caan. Caan threatens an Army doctor with his .45 to get him to operate on his wounded captain. Connery kills a German soldier with his.

[HiVelSword]

I'm sorta embarrased about this.

Paul Walker in the end of The Fast and the Furious. Was a smaller than 5" 1911.

[RickB]

"A Bridge Too Far", (WW II) Sean Connery and James Caan. Caan threatens an Army doctor with his .45 to get him to operate on his wounded captain. Connery kills a German soldier with his.

I recall Connery with a Hi-Power, in that one.

[ADaughen]

The Shadow (1994) Alec Baldwin as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow sports two Nickel plated .45s with pearl grips.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) Jude Law as Joe "Sky Captain" Sullivan as well as some others use 1911s.

[HiVelSword]

The Shadow (1994) Alec Baldwin as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow sports two Nickel plated .45s with pearl grips.

.

Those were NOT standard 1911's. Those were longslides but not standard ones. Looks like the dustcover as well as the slide was elongated. Looked weird.

[Tom T Bosee]

Whew! I got dizzy reading through all these films that had 1911's in them. One movie that no one mentioned was "Dr. Strangelove". General Jack D. Ripper clearly has one on his desk, and Slim Pickins issues them to the flightcrew on the B-52.

[Moose63845]

There are 3 Bond films with 1911's that I can think of, the first official Bond film Dr. No the assain comes into the room with a silenced 1911 and fires into the bed. Sean Connory incorrectly says "That's a Smith and Wesson and you've had your six." Then in the opening sequence of The Man with the Golden Gun the mafia hitman uses a 1911 when he goes after Scaramonga. Then in The World is Not Enough towards the end the villian bond girl whose name I can't remember has Bond captured in a strangulation chair and uses a 1911 that he takes over after escaping.

[ADaughen]

Those were NOT standard 1911's. Those were longslides but not standard ones. Looks like the dustcover as well as the slide was elongated. Looked weird.

I noticed they looked longer than normal. I'll have to do some research on it.

Sadly, the best picture I could find (so far):
http://www.theshadowfan.com/pictures/international/hungary/TheShadowVHScover.jpg
http://www.theshadowfan.com/pictures/shadowposter94-cine.gif

yahoo > google :p

http://www.shadowsanctum.net/screen/screen_1994/cinema_1994-steve-karnes-interview.html

LAR Grizzly was only company that was making an oversized 1911 type pistol. The Prop Master then explained that what they needed for a pistol and the .45 Win Mag was chosen. As a one off item, LAR had to back date their pistols to a 1930s look. The frame was extended forward to the relief cut on the slide. Then the slides had 2 inches added to them to match the length of the barrel. Also, they left off the lightning cuts that parallel the slide and installed Colt 1911 sights. Afterwards they were polished and then plated with bright nickel. A motion picture armory could have built the pistols; they would have started with a Grizzly and modified it, but that would have been more work than just making them new by LAR.

[AFH]

"The Phantom;" 1996, Billy Zane as Kit Walker. Classic comic book hero graduated to movies with paired GI .45s...if you said ".45" in the 1930s, likely "Kit Walker" would have been the response...

Doc H.

[OD*]

Enemy of the State
Gene Hackman used a Colt Model 1911 U.S. Army-marked .45 ACP pistol, serial #357414.

http://www.longmountain.com/movieguns/EnemyoftheState/DSCN9966.jpg

[ADaughen]

I don't think these were listed:
Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever
Dick Tracy - Warren Beatty

True Lies - Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://i.imdb.com/mptv1.gif

Doom (on weapons rack in lab)
http://www.propstore.com/images/products/865/doom-yasilverpistol1.jpg

[HiVelSword]

The remake of Assault on Precinct 13 - Ethan Hawke

Four Brothers - Mark Whalberg

[HiVelSword]

Titanic - Billy Zane

Boondock Saints - Billy Connelly

Narc - Jason Patric

[scooter]

Its been a loooooong time since Ive watched it but I seem to recall seeing one somewhere in it.......Oh when the sgt hits the black kid over the head for threatening the cptn.

[HiVelSword]

48 hours - Nick Nolte

The Devil's Rejects - Bill Moseley

Shoot to Kill - Clancey Brown. A 9mm Commander I might add. They mentioned the caliber in the movie and the bore looked correct but it could have been a super. I say that because Hollywood knows that non gun people have heard of 9mm. Most haven't heard of .38 Super.

But I like to believe it was a 9mm :D

[Shipwreck]

Chris Rock in Lethal Weapon 4 - When he was sitting in the back of the car talking to Leo

[HiVelSword]

Chris Rock in Lethal Weapon 4 - When he was sitting in the back of the car talking to Leo

Besides having every cop in that movie not act like a cop, could LW4 have contained any more anti gun crap?!?!

1. Beginning psycho had a .223 shorty in full auto and a flame thrower. What does Riggs say? "Who's this guy? A spokesperson for the NRA?"

2. In the beginiing on the boat Riggs asked if Leo had a permit for his pistol. Leo said yes. Riggs said, "Permit or no permit, you don't deserve a piece like that (or something to that exchange). He then threw the pistol overboard!

3. Shortly afterwards during the boat chase, Leo asked Riggs if that was a new gun. 1st, the only thing different were the Lasergrips. I guess Leo was very observant. Anyway, Riggs then said, "Yeah, you want some laser surgery" and proceeded to wave the gun with the laser activated in Leo's face with his finger on the trigger!

4. At the precinct the next day you will notice in the background a poster. It's the letters NRA. Around the NRA is a red circle with a diagonal line through it.

5. Chris Rock's character pointed a 1911 at Leo and then cocked the hammer because Leo thought he was a perp.

WHAT-E-VER :mad:

I am SO glad I didn't pay to see this movie.

[Moose63845]

2. In the beginiing on the boat Riggs asked if Leo had a permit for his pistol. Leo said yes. Riggs said, "Permit or no permit, you don't deserve a piece like that (or something to that exchange). He then threw the pistol overboard!
And it was a 1911 too :scared: , what kind of idiot throws a perfectly good 1911 into the Ocean? :mad:

[Hunter]

The movie Survivors with Jerry Reed and Robin Williams showed several 1911s.

[OD*]

Alec Baldwin in Heaven's Prisoners.

[HiVelSword]

And it was a 1911 too :scared: , what kind of idiot throws a perfectly good 1911 into the Ocean? :mad:

I thought it was an officer's model. Either way, I'd make Mel jump in the ocean to retrieve it.

Oh, and remember LW3? When those "9mm copkiller" bullets went through the scoop of a bulldozer and killed the baddie?

I bet there were many people that saw that and thought it was possible.

I HATE RICHARD DONNER!!! :mad:

[Moose63845]

Another Bond film the best one Goldfinger, Odd Job uses a silenced one to kill a mafia member.

[IndianaDean]

The Phantom used dual 1911s, if I'm not mistaken.

In a (non?)related scenario, the original Batman in the comic book of the late 30s/early 40s carried a 1911.

Also, a stainless Springfield Armory 1911 in Sin City.

[OD*]

L.A. Confidential - Kevin Spacey

[103]

I don't know if this counts, but I am sitting here waiting for Family Guy and I'm watching X-Files. Scully and Mulder are using some form of 1911A1. Maybe the .38 Super? They were usually out of focus, but they looked like non-polished stainless maybe?

EDIT: nevermind, they looked like BHP's with adjustable sights... odd.

[John]

These guys are too politically correct to use 1911s or P-35s. The best I've seen them with, are Sig Sauers.

[rhtwist]

"The Day the Earth Stood Still", apparently carried condition 2 by the military personnel. Shot what was to be a gift to the President, injuring Clatu.
rhtwist

[Dr. Dickie]

"The Day the Earth Stood Still", apparently carried condition 2 by the military personnel. Shot what was to be a gift to the President, injuring Clatu.
rhtwist

Klaatu. As in: "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"

Sorry, just the geek in me.

[rhtwist]

Klaatu. As in: "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"

Sorry, just the geek in me.

Gratiously accepted. Gracious geek in me. Is that quote from the original movie or "Army of Darkness"? :)
rhtwist

[OD*]

Patricia Neal said it first in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

[rhtwist]

Also I think they left out the "Gort!" in "Army of Darkness" :)
rhtwist

[OD*]

I believe you're correct. :D

[JDL]

Did anyone mention A Few Good Men?

[Dr. Dickie]

Patricia Neal said it first in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
You joke?
You mean Michael Rennie, of course.

[OD*]

True, bad chocie of wording.

Rennie said it first in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Patricia Neal said it in The Day the Earth Stood Still, before Bruce Campbell quoted it in Army of Darkness.
Better?

[Dr. Dickie]

True, bad chocie of wording.

Rennie said it first in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Patricia Neal said it in The Day the Earth Stood Still, before Bruce Campbell quoted it in Army of Darkness.
Better?

Okay.....this time :p

[rhtwist]

True, bad chocie of wording.

Rennie said it first in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Patricia Neal said it in The Day the Earth Stood Still, before Bruce Campbell quoted it in Army of Darkness.
Better?
As long as we are being precise, wouldn't it be INCORRECTLY quoted in Army of Darkness :D
rhtwist

[RickB]

I don't know if this counts, but I am sitting here waiting for Family Guy and I'm watching X-Files. Scully and Mulder are using some form of 1911A1. Maybe the .38 Super? They were usually out of focus, but they looked like non-polished stainless maybe?

EDIT: nevermind, they looked like BHP's with adjustable sights... odd.

For a while, I was watching X-Files twice a day, and never saw them with 1911s. At one time, Scully packed a SIG .380 while Mulder had something larger than that. They both carried stainless Smith & Wessons (probably what you saw) for a while (including one episode where Scully cleaned her gun while she chatted with Mulder on the phone. I'd never before been so . . . affected by a barrel scrubbing :) ). In the later episodes, they both packed Glocks. I could never figure out how Scully hid that thing.

[OD*]

IIRC, in the beginning, Mulder carried a Glock, Scully a Walther, then the Smiths and finally they both carried Sigs.

[HiVelSword]

For a while, I was watching X-Files twice a day, and never saw them with 1911s. At one time, Scully packed a SIG .380 while Mulder had something larger than that. They both carried stainless Smith & Wessons (probably what you saw) for a while (including one episode where Scully cleaned her gun while she chatted with Mulder on the phone. I'd never before been so . . . affected by a barrel scrubbing :) ). In the later episodes, they both packed Glocks. I could never figure out how Scully hid that thing.

You think THAT'S bad?!? How about Mitzi Kapture in that late nite cop show "Silk Stalkings". She's 5 foot nuthin, 100 pounds, dressed in tight outfits but when she needs a gun, out comes the Beretta 92!!!

Hollywood.

[HiVelSword]

IIRC, in the beginning, Mulder carried a Glock, Scully a Walther, then the Smiths and finally they both carried Sigs.

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it was a SIG 230, not a Walther. Spot on with everything else.

[Moose63845]

I didn't see it yet so Batman, the one with Micheal Keaton has several 1911's.

[JDL]

Ok, one more time... A Few Good Men - Actor JT Walsh (Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson) shoots himself with a nickle plated pistol. I believe it was a 1911 or Browning HP. at the very least. It's a fast scene but you can see it. Sorry if it was mentioned, I didn't see it on the list.

[ArmedsouthernEr]

dont know if you consider this a movie but wasnt there a couple of scenes with a 1911 in the HBO series Band of Brothers

[jeff1124]

Just finished watching "Last Man Standing" again, what a great movie! Although I was unaware of the availability of high cap Mags in the early '30's, LOL!

[Racephysics]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911_in_Popular_Culture

there is a lot covered by the above, just thought i'd mention it also. :)

EDIT for an example=
A Colt Commander .45 was pulled out of the dead hands of a town member in movie Red Dawn. This happens in view of a bumper sticker that reads "They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

[Racephysics]

---------From the movie, Ronin.
<Irishman> what do you use? weapons-wise?

<Ronin> hm?

<Irishman> weapons? i'm a... weapons man.

<Ronin> a weapons guy, eh.

<Irishman> yeah, they tend to settle the argument. <pause> so what do you favor?

<Ronin> eh you know... its a toolbox, i don't care, you use the tools that do the job that's all.

<Irishman> what?

<Ronin> you know i actually favor the ole 1911.

<Irishman> <nods> fourty-five.... old gun.

<Ronin><nods affirmativly> served my country well. long time.

<Irishman> your country... not done to well have you... last few wars.

<Ronin>perhaps not, but at least we don't go around whining about it.

<Irishman> you ex-military?

<Ronin> no i got my job through the new york times.

<frenchman in french> don't let him get you down.

<Ronin> don't mean nothing to me.

[Racephysics]

---Equilibrium (futuristic 1911 types, a stretch but i had to quote this)

DuPont: The gun katas. Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element. The gun kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increase to lethal proficiency makes the master of the gun katas an adversary not to be taken lightly.

[HiVelSword]

From the movie, Ronin.
<Spence played by Sean Bean> what do you use? weapons-wise?

<Sam played by Robert DeNiro> hm?

Ronin is a general term. Not what Sam was. What they ALL were.

[HiVelSword]

---Equilibrium (futuristic 1911 types, a stretch but i had to quote this)

DuPont: The gun katas. Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element. The gun kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increase to lethal proficiency makes the master of the gun katas an adversary not to be taken lightly.

One of my favorite movies. I was actually lucky enough to see it on the big screen even tho it was only open on less than 400 nationwide.

Anyway, they were modified Beretta 92's, not 1911's.

[jeff1124]

I have the movie equilibrium and I believe the handguns were desert eagles.

[HiVelSword]

I have the movie equilibrium and I believe the handguns were desert eagles.

I bought it as well. They are not. They are heavily modified Beretta 92's

[HiVelSword]

I saw it in the theater and I knew they were Beretta's but I thought they were modified 93R's. I was wrong, just modified 92's.

Scroll halfway down this link.

http://www.freewebs.com/equilibrium-movie/gunkata.htm

[The Sheriff]

Yeah, Equilibrium guns are definitely just Berettas 92's with a bunch of goofy junk attached. Or they're ridiculously modified... either one. It looks like they put on an AR-15 selector switch too. And the bullets fly out of the top, which looks pretty crazy; really, you could only pull that sort off with the Beretta's open-top slide. Certainly not 1911's, and definitely not Desert Eagles.

[HiVelSword]

Still, no matter how unlikely the action scenes were and forget that the magazines seem to hold 40 rounds before a reload, those sequences were beyond cool.

I love that movie.

[jeff1124]

I am guilty of not paying attention to detail once again!

[plws88]

Sorry to interject -- I had read "the list" and saw "Face Off" on there. I had not seen it until the other day on USA -- very nice pair of gold plated Springers.

[HiVelSword]

Sorry to interject -- I had read "the list" and saw "Face Off" on there. I had not seen it until the other day on USA -- very nice pair of gold plated Springers.

I agree. I generally hate gold looking guns but those were awesome. Had the V-12 ports too.

[Tom]

My family and I often see these "gold" plated guns at the local gun shows. One classic example we see a lot are Beretta/Taurus M9-clones with gold accented safeties and slide stops. Does anyone actually own any of these guns, and if they do, USE them?

[Hunter]

My family and I often see these "gold" plated guns at the local gun shows. One classic example we see a lot are Beretta/Taurus M9-clones with gold accented safeties and slide stops. Does anyone actually own any of these guns, and if they do, USE them?
Tom I see several of the gold plated/gold accented guns at shows as well. Most of them are the Beretta 93FS and the Taurus copy. Usually they will be chromed with gold slide stop, safeties, and a few other minor parts with faux pearl grips and gold medallions. I am not a fan of the 92FS but it paines me to see such a travesty to what was once a nice looking pistol

[MrsKey]

Tom I see several of the gold plated/gold accented guns at shows as well. Most of them are the Beretta 93FS and the Taurus copy. Usually they will be chromed with gold slide stop, safeties, and a few other minor parts with faux pearl grips and gold medallions. I am not a fan of the 92FS but it paines me to see such a travesty to what was once a nice looking pistol

Thank you! I have a Taurus PT99 and every time I see my guns younger siblings all "pimped out" with their gold accents I cringe!

[Hunter]

I know this is a movie discussion forum so I will be brief. I have a shooting buddy that carries the Beretta 92FS and know another fella with the Taurus PT99. If they are left alone it is not a bad looking pistol and I have shot the Beretta several times without any trouble and from what I understand the Taurus is just as reliable. I am used to the 1911 so I have a hard time with the transition to the double action wider frame 9mm. That is why I am not a fan so please do not think I was implying anything bad about those 9mms. To see one butchered up with all the gold/chrome makes the pistol look ridiculous. I saw some Desert Eagles this past show this past show in .44mag. One was gold plated totally and the other was gold and chrome similar to the Beretta and I cannot understand why in the world someone would do that to a weapon. It is hard for me to take those seriously. It must be some sort of gimmick.(so much for being brief :D )

[jeff1124]

Look at this thing!!! This is slightly off topic, sorry, it just seemed to fit here.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b138/RONJ38/65d8515f.jpg

[The Sheriff]

In related news, did you know that most humans feel nausea after looking at the color pink too long? With that pistol, I think "too long" was 5 seconds. However, it's probably a very effective means of self-defense, because I don't think anyone wants to get shot with that thing.

As for gold stuff, there are ways to make some pistols look good with it, but apparently it's way too easy to go over the line and make a gun look gaudy and ugly. Those Desert Eagles some of you were talking about are a good example. Even some of the more interesting ones such as the tiger-stripe Desert Eagles are only interesting to look at for a little bit; actually owning one and having to use it more than once seems unbearable. Maybe I'm just not up with the "bling" movement despite my youth, and maybe I just don't like two-tone things (aside from 1911 mags, of course) but nothing says "tacky" to me like chrome with gold accents. Some look okay if you do it right, but Face-Off's Castor Troy 1911's are probably as far as anyone should ever try to go. And really, they only work because he has two of them... and hey, who's going to argue against two 1911's?

[jeff1124]

...is thinking how much it cost someone to make that thing pink!

[The Sheriff]

I would say that it would cost a soul, but no one with a soul could ever want to do that to a 1911.

[Racephysics]

One of my favorite movies. I was actually lucky enough to see it on the big screen even tho it was only open on less than 400 nationwide.

Anyway, they were modified Beretta 92's, not 1911's.
my bad my bad.

i heard the quote before i saw the movie and that's what i get for believing a glock guy about what he thinks he saw about another pistol. i stand corrected.

@ HiVelSword, the movie Ronin is just like your signature, it's just semantics.
;)

[Moose63845]

In response to the gold guns, Gold is the new Nickel/Stainless.

[The Sheriff]

The Shadow had a main character with what looked to be two shiny 1911's. I say "looked" because I never really saw much of the movie, the TV was small, and he never actually used them. He pretty much took them out and dropped them half a minute later so that he could throw glass with his mind....

[CharlieinKansas]

Does anybody know which 45's Tom Selleck used in the Jesse Stone made for tv movies? They looked to be 4" models.

[jeff1124]

I believe Tom Selleck and his partner carried 1911's in the "futuristic" robot movie; Runaway. I saw it on cable yesterday and they looked like SS 1911's.

[Tom]

I got one! I was watching an MST3K rerun of "Mitchell" starring Joe Don Baker. IN the opening scene, a burglar looks through a gun case with several 1911's, and John Saxon's character blows away the intruder with another 1911 hidden in a drawer. Later, as the police arrive, he identifies the intruder's gun as a "Colt".

[Tom]

Oooh! Got a second one. Another MST3K episode, "Warrior of the Lost World" starring Robert Ginty and Persis Khambatta (the bald woman from Star Trek The Motion Picture but this time with hair). There's a scene where she draws and shoots a stainless 1911. Very hot!

[jeff1124]

I take it the Honey-do list hasn't shrunk this weekend, eh Tom??

[Tom]

Nope. Just got an early start on it. But as I come across more MST3K episodes with 1911's in them, I'm obliged to report them.

[The Sheriff]

I'm pretty sure Uma had a 1911 near the end of Kill Bill 2.

[rhtwist]

Elijah Wood carried two. You also left out "The Thing from Another World" with all the military carrying especially Kenneth Tobey.
rhtwist

[OD*]

I think you mean Elisha Cook Jr.
Elijah Wood was in Lord of the Rings, etc. ;)

[rhtwist]

Good Call OD*, Cooks the one. Too much recoil for hobbits.

[OD*]

Mr. Cook t'weren't much bigger than a hobbit. ;)

Did you know, he was the first person to be "blown" off their feet when shot in a movie? In Shane, when Jack Wilson shot Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey.

[Cactus]

Mr. Cook t'weren't much bigger than a hobbit. ;)

Did you know, he was the first person to be "blown" off their feet when shot in a movie? In Shane, when Jack Wilson shot Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey.


You would have thought that "stonewall" was hit in the chest with a ground to air missle, the way he was picked up and 'thrown back' and slamed into the mud ! If my 45LC did that, on the business end, i can't imagine the recoil, on the grip end. Hollywood has sure given the viewers the idea that bullets, from 9mm/up, will throw a guy backward, and through a wall or glass window. It sure is fun to watch though ain't it ! ;)

On the old "B" westerns, we got just the opposite effect. Remember how the "good guy," took a hit in the gut, or chest, with a 45, would make a sour looking face, grab his wounded area, and walk over, get on his horse, manage to get to help, and some friendly soul with a sharp knife, would cut the slug out, and he would mend in a week, and be out in the saddle again. BUT, if the "bad guy" got hit, he grabbed his chest stumbled around for a minute or two, and then fell in a heap!

There must be good guy, and bad guy bullets! Wonder where you get those? :D


Cactus

[Prof. A. Wickwire]

I didn't see this one on the list:

The Last Hard Men (1976)
James Coburn as Zach Provo gets what looks like a 1911 after the jail break and the first time he uses it, he shoots a telephone.

Sincerely,

Prof. A. Wickwire

[jeff1124]

I just watched "Gunmen" made in 1994 w/ Christopher Lambert and Mario Van Peebles. In one scene Lambert loses Van Peebles 1911 and he refers to it as a 9mm with pearl handles. In another scene, with possibly the worst film editing I've ever seen, Lambert holds a 1911 on VP and when the cameras switch he is holding a revolver on him instead and then they proceed to switch 2 more times, each time with the gun switch as well! Pretty lame for anyone with an eye for weaponry.

[Rio Vista Slim]

Perhaps someone on the forum can answer a question that has been "bugging" me since all of the newer movies featuring the 1911 have come out.

Historically, actual .45 caliber 1911 type pistols might be featured in a movie, but when it came to firing the guns, a "stand-in" would have to be used (a Star or some similar pistol) because a 1911 will not function reliably using property department blanks.

Does anyone know if Hollywood (or someone else) has figured a way around this? Do the directors of movies such as "SIN CITY", which prominently feature 1911 type pistols throughout the story, have to call in the "Stunt" 1911 whenever the gun is fired?

Inquiring minds want to know....... :)

[scooter]

Perhaps someone on the forum can answer a question that has been "bugging" me since all of the newer movies featuring the 1911 have come out.

Historically, actual .45 caliber 1911 type pistols might be featured in a movie, but when it came to firing the guns, a "stand-in" would have to be used (a Star or some similar pistol) because a 1911 will not function reliably using property department blanks.

Does anyone know if Hollywood (or someone else) has figured a way around this? Do the directors of movies such as "SIN CITY", which prominently feature 1911 type pistols throughout the story, have to call in the "Stunt" 1911 whenever the gun is fired?

Inquiring minds want to know....... :)
Iread somewhere(dont remeber where) they have converted some to just blowback actions and use them,locked breech dont workie with blanks very well.I wont say this is fact just something I vaguely remember......

[Mad Martigan]

You would have thought that "stonewall" was hit in the chest with a ground to air missle, the way he was picked up and 'thrown back' and slamed into the mud ! If my 45LC did that, on the business end, i can't imagine the recoil, on the grip end. Hollywood has sure given the viewers the idea that bullets, from 9mm/up, will throw a guy backward, and through a wall or glass window. It sure is fun to watch though ain't it ! ;)



Or that first guy Bruce Willis shot in Last Man Standing. He unloaded on him and the guy flew backwards out of a building, across the sidewalk, did a back flip, and landed in the middle of the street. :D

[Tom T Bosee]

Perhaps someone on the forum can answer a question that has been "bugging" me since all of the newer movies featuring the 1911 have come out.

Historically, actual .45 caliber 1911 type pistols might be featured in a movie, but when it came to firing the guns, a "stand-in" would have to be used (a Star or some similar pistol) because a 1911 will not function reliably using property department blanks.

Does anyone know if Hollywood (or someone else) has figured a way around this? Do the directors of movies such as "SIN CITY", which prominently feature 1911 type pistols throughout the story, have to call in the "Stunt" 1911 whenever the gun is fired?

Inquiring minds want to know....... :)
Check out 1ABCstore.com. They sell 1911 blank guns they say fire as fast as you can pull the the trigger. 10-round mags, blow-back action.

[Moose63845]

Those are real 1911's, they convert them to fire blanks. The technology has advanced far enough so that they can use real 1911's and not those ugly blank guns. Just like the simunition conversions, a few part changes and you've gotta working blank whatever gun. They can also convert anygun to full auto easily if needed, or to whatever level of fire is needed. Like Robo Cop's modified Beretta 93R which was delayed to give it that effect. If you have the DVD's of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, or The Mummy Returns they have some special features on the firearms and you can see the blanks they are using in some scenes. Not sure which version of the DVD's they are on though.