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I need a little help guys. We all know that Dirty Harry used a S/W model 29 in his movies, but there was one movie he used a stainless steel Wildey. Does anyone know which movie?
Thanks you.
 
They were not all 29's

Smith & Wesson did not have a Model 29 in stock at the time one was requested for filming. Instead, they used a Smith & Wesson Model 57 in .41 Magnum

In the scene where Callahan drawis his revolver for the first time, the gun used was a Smith and Wesson Model 29 in .44 Magnum with an 8 3/8" barrel, but subsequent shooting (both with the cameras and the gun) was conducted using a Smith and Wesson Model 25 in .45 long colt with a 6" barrel.
 
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the hammer said:
I need a little help guys. We all know that Dirty Harry used a S/W model 29 in his movies, but there was one movie he used a stainless steel Wildey. Does anyone know which movie?
Thanks you.
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I think you saw the movie Sudden Impact. Dirty Harry says

"Well, this is the .44 Magnum Auto-Mag and it hold a 300-grain cartridge. And, if properly used, it can remove the fingerprints."

More information here
http://www.reloadbench.com/cartridges/p44auto.html
 
Yes he did. And the 29 availability problem was for the second DH movie not the first. The first movie was the reason there was a run on 29s. Also, depending on angle, they used 6.5 barreled and 8 3/8" barreled revolvers for various shots. We really need a DH stickey I think, these questions keep coming up. - dan
 
Callahan's gear

Hoping some pics may help this topic. Dirty Harry's gear:


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Callahan used the following:

S&W Model 29 .44 Magnum 6 1/2 in. bbl (1956 Mdl 29 pictured)
Leather shoulder holster (Original Lawman Leather SH pictured)
3 speedloaders (sorry for only 2 showing...)
Said that he used ``light 44 Special loads``...

Mark
(yes it took a while to find an early M29 like this & an original ``dirty Harry`` shoulder holster)
 
Actually in the first Dirty Harry movie, Lieutenant Detective Harry Callahan did used a .41 Remington Magnum 6½" barrel S&W Model 57 revolver... :runaway:Why?:confused: At this moment the movie production could not find a 6½" barrel Model 29 because these guns were factory back ordered. The big .41 bore look the same on the movie sceen. Hollywood did the same with the movie "Vanishing Point". The 426 HEMI Dodge Challenger engine was in fact a disguised 440 because of the same back order problem.;)
 
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vanishing point, if you listen to the dialogue ON THE MOVIE, says it's nothing but a 360 4 barrel, four speed-i've got the movie on tape, watched it many times-
 
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vanishing point, if you listen to the dialogue ON THE MOVIE, says it's nothing but a 360 4 barrel, four speed-i've got the movie on tape, watched it many times-
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They used five cars for the movie... four 440/4 barrels Challenger and one 383/4 barrels Challenger with a with automatic transmission witch was used in the camera runs. I have a 1/18th Official repro model and it is indicated HEMI on the air filter. The 360 wasn't yet introduced in 1970. At this time the existing Chrysler's small blocks were the 318 and the 340 respectively.;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_Point
 
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Actually in the first Dirty Harry movie, Lieutenant Detective Harry Callahan did used a .41 Remington Magnum 6½" barrel S&W Model 57 revolver... :runaway:Why?:confused: At this moment the movie production could not find a 6½" barrel Model 29 because these guns were factory back ordered. The big .41 bore look the same on the movie sceen. Hollywood did the same with the movie "Vanishing Point". The 426 HEMI Dodge Challenger engine was in fact a disguised 440 because of the same back order problem.;)
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I'd sure like to see one of those 6 1/2" 41 mag S&Ws. - dan
 
Few years ago I did shoot a S&W 6½" Model 57 .41 of my late best freind. Smooth recoil and accurate shot after shot.
 
I'd bet money it was a 6", not a 6.5", I've not seen a 6.5 model 57 in 40 years of shooting. Not saying they never made one (S&W custom shop would whip up practically anything back in the day), but they never sold them in that length as a standard option. Also, seeing as how there was very little demand for 29s until after the first movie was made, I fail to see why there would have been a backlog on them. FWIW - dan
 
A bit off the subject, but there was a hollywierd TV movie that featured "cop killer bullets" In the final scene, apparently able to shoot the bad guy THROUGH the dozer blade of a D8 Cat! (these were supposedly the "black Rhino" bullets that NEVER exsisted.)
I am often amazed that actors who make their living expending thousands of rounds of blank ammo, are anti-gun. That includes EVERY actor who played James Bond
 
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