I Started a new thread because the title of the old thread had the title changed to "1870's six guns question, Answered and solved"

In the original thread Bendable asked about a swing out cylinder on a revolver in the 1951 film "Fort Worth" starring Randolph Scott.

I posted a clip of the movie showing that the revolver in question was a SAA. Well, tonight I finally got around to watching the movie. In the movie, but not in the scene that Bendable described, a double action swing out cylinder revolver that was modified to look like a "cowboy gun" is shown in close up. It was either a Colt New Model Army, or a Colt New Service that had an ejector rod housing attached to the barrel.

I made a video showing what I'm writing about. It's covered in the first one and a quarter minutes. I follow with the full clip.



Link:

https://youtu.be/3XiUe87cFDk?si=Z3WijgLV-IBrZ6Ri

Tonight I watched a western from 1954 "The Last Posse"

I spotted what might be the same prop gun that was in "Fort Worth".

This one is probably a Colt New Service.



link:

https://youtu.be/W4b_r7UvImY?si=C1V3lS0yHX262baH

I had an old Gun Digest with an article about prop guns, mostly for westerns. There were a lot of double action Colts and Smiths with dummy extractor rod housings for use by actors who had not mastered the single action. I only recall a picture of one New Service with the butt reshaped to the "plowhandle" of a SAA.

The "Remington Look" was popular with webs under the barrel of Colt SAAs to look like Remington 1875s.

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Originally posted by Jim Watson:

The "Remington Look" was popular with webs under the barrel of Colt SAAs to look like Remington 1875s.

Those Colt/Remingtons show up A LOT. Often paired with Winchester 1892s that have had their hand guards removed and receivers painted gold so that they look like Henry Rifles. They must have made a bunch for a Civil War movie or something.

I just watched a movie tonight "Hangman's Knot" (1954). Nearly the entire cast of about 20 had the Colt/Remington 1892/Henry combination. It is set at the closing of the Civil War. At least they attempted to make the guns look authentic-ish. There was also a S&W No. 2, or maybe 1/2, and a small Remington (I think).

Lt. Lance Caldwell (Rock Hudson) carried a cartridge conversion Colt, in 'Seminole'. Problem was, the Seminole War was in 1835 so the prop department went to all the trouble of furnishing him a still anachronistic weapon.

Think I've posted this before. "Loading levers" crudely welded to Colt SAA's (probably Great Westerns and not Colts) to simulate black powder revolvers.