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Always liked the scene from the Good Bad and the Ugly, where Tuco takes parts from several revolvers and assembles the best into one gun, then goes "out back" and trys it out.

Civil war era with the first Richards convirsions from black powder to cartridge.

Virgil B.

I have to admit that Dirty Harry is a big one for me but the 45 and how it was used in "Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia " was pretty impressive.

Greg

Robert Duvall has a couple of good scenes in Lonesome Dove. Loved it when he raised the ladder sight on his 1873 and drilled the Comanchero ala Billy Dixon.

One of my favorites is "Smoking Aces"

The scene near the end of 'Quigley Down Under' makes it a handgun movie.

"The Untouchables", fancy 1911's and Hi-powers.

I liked the part in the "The Professional" when Gary Oldman
takes the pills before entering the apartment to kill the
man and his family and the other cops are afraid of him.

Collateral
Heat
Tombstone
Ronin
Taken

Henry.

Richards conversions didn't come out until several years after the war was over. The same mistake can be seen in Josey Wales as well. It's curious that Wales uses a more modern gun dug out of the smoking remains of his cabin ostensibly before the actual war began than his pistols he later carries after the war.

In Distant Drums, set during the 1840's, Gary Cooper is carrying a Colt single action, and the army troops are using trap door rifles. WTH!!! I'm sure it happens a lot, and not many notice.

The Shootist. Loved the Great Westerns.

I was thinking that the conversions didn't come out untill after the war, but this was still a great scene with a handgun, even if not historicaly correct.

Virgil B.

In a slightly different vein, in the movie "Zulu" there are a few anachronisms as well. The officers are carrying break open revolvers, but of a period later than 1876. Plus, in the scene where the flying squad is advancing by sections from within the compound to repel the Zulus that had broken through the barricade, they are using bolt action French Lebels.

I think John Milius movies are more historically correct.

"Taken" is a good gunplay film.

Oops, my bad.

Only seen it once.

Speaking of John Milius, there is a pretty cool handgun scene near the first of "The Wind and the Lion." It's mostly a long gun movie though.

Though I am no fan of Tom Cruise, Collateral has to have some of the finest handgun skills I have seen in a movie. The movie Shooter has some fair handgun skills as well. As far as single action revolvers go, Silverado has some pretty good footage in it.

Sort of a "handgun" was in the John Wayne movie El Dorado where James Cann couldn't hit anything he shot at and John wayne fixed him up with a double barreled shotgun (12" barrels) and a holster to carry it on his hip. Sort of neat.