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[[Image:S&W-Model-1917.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Smith & Wesson M1917 Revolver (Military issue with lanyard ring) - .45 acp]]
The '''M1917 Revolver''' refers to two .45 ACP revolvers with the same designation used by the United States during World War I. During World War I, the official sidearm of American forces was the [[M1911|M1911 Government .45 Automatic]], however supply shortages forced the U.S. Army to ask two major gun manufacturers, [[Colt]] and [[Smith & Wesson]], to each update their existing commercial heavy frame revolvers and build a version that could be fielded as a supplement to the standard M1911.
[[Image:ColtModel1917.jpg‎|thumb|450px|right|Colt M1917 Revolver (Military issue with lanyard ring) - .45 acp]]
The '''M1917 Revolver''' was a six shot revolver, chambered for the .45 acp round - a rimless round that required half  (or full) moon clips to load the cartridges. During World War One, the official side arm of American forces was [[M1911 pistol series#M1911 Government .45 Auto|M1911 Government .45 Automatic]], however supply shortages forced the U.S. Army to ask two Major Gun Manufacturers, '''Colt''' and '''Smith & Wesson''' to each update their existing Commercial heavy frame revolver and each build a version that could be fielded as a supplement to the standard M1911.


Colt already had an offering to the military, their M1909 heavy revolver, but it was chambered for the antiquated .45 long colt round.  They rechambered the revolver for the newly adopted .45 acp round (calling the commercial variant "the Colt New service Revolver").  Smith & Wesson rechambered their own Second Model .44 Hand Ejector revolver as well.
Colt already had an offering to the military, their M1909 heavy revolver, but it was chambered for the antiquated .45 Long Colt round.  They re-chambered the revolver for the newly adopted .45 ACP round (calling the commercial variant "the [[Colt New Service]] Revolver").  Smith & Wesson re-chambered their own [[Smith_%26_Wesson_44_Hand_Ejector_Series#44_Smith_.26_Wesson_2ND_Model_.281915-1940.29|Second Model .44 Hand Ejector]] revolver as well. Thus there are two versions of the Model 1917 revolver that are externally very similar, one built by Colt and one built by Smith & Wesson.


Thus there are TWO versions of the Model 1917 revolver that are externally very similar, one built by Colt and one built by Smith & Wesson.
Smith & Wesson continued the M1917 with the Model of 1950, later renamed [[Smith & Wesson Model 22]] and [[Smith & Wesson Model 25]].


The .45 ACP was a rimless round, and thus the revolvers required half (or full) moon clips to load the cartridges.


They (or a variation thereof) can be seen in the following:
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==Specifications==
==Specifications==
*Weight: 2.5 lb (1.1 kg) (Colt)
*Weight: 2.5 lb (1.1 kg) (Colt),  2.25 lb (1 kg) (S&W)
*2.25 lb (1 kg) (S&W)
*Length: 10.8 in (274 mm)
*Length: 10.8 in (274 mm)
*Barrel length: 5.5 in (140 mm)
*Barrel length: 5.5 in (140 mm)
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*Action: double action, solid frame with swing-out cylinder
*Action: double action, solid frame with swing-out cylinder
*Muzzle velocity: 760 ft/s ( 231.7 m/s)
*Muzzle velocity: 760 ft/s ( 231.7 m/s)
*Feed system: six-round cylinder, loaded singly or with two three-round half-moon clips
*Feed system: six-round cylinder, loaded singly (.45 Auto Rim) or with two three-round half-moon clips (.45 ACP)
*Sights: blade front sight, notched rear sight
*Sights: blade front sight, notched rear sight
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=Smith & Wesson M1917 Revolver=
[[File:S&W-Model-1917.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Smith & Wesson M1917 Revolver (Military issue with lanyard ring) - .45 ACP. Note the ejector-rod socket, common of a S&W revolver. Also note the S&W style cylinder release latch and half-moon front sight. These are the most easily distinguishable external differences between the Colt and S&W versions.]]
==Film==
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[The Heart of Humanity]]'' || [[William Stowell]] || John Patricia || || 1918
|-
| ''[[The Big Parade]]'' || || American officers ||  || 1925
|-
|''[[All the King's Men (1949)|All the King's Men]]''||||police officer||||1949
|-
| ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' || [[Kirk Douglas]] || Colonel Dax ||  || 1957
|-
| ''[[Farewell, Friend]]'' || [[Alain Delon]] || Dino Barran ||  || 1968
|-
| ''[[Farewell, Friend]]'' || [[Charles Bronson]] || Franz Propp ||  || 1968
|-
| ''[[Farewell, Friend]]'' || [[Olga Georges-Picot]] || Isabelle Moreau ||  || 1968
|-
| ''[[Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia]]'' || [[Kris Kristofferson]] || A biker ||  || 1974
|-
| ''[[Great Gatsby, The (1974)|The Great Gatsby]]'' || [[Scott Wilson]] || George Wilson ||  || 1974
|-
| ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' || [[Harrison Ford]] || Indiana Jones || Shortened || 1981
|-
| ''[[Batman (1989)]]'' || [[Jack Palance]] || Carl Grissom ||  || 1989
|-
| ''[[Last Man Standing]]'' || || Thugs ||  || 1996
|-
| ''[[Newton Boys, The|The Newton Boys]]'' || [[Vincent D'Onofrio]] || Dock Newton ||  || 1998
|-
| ''[[Newton Boys, The|The Newton Boys]]'' || [[Dwight Yoakam]] || Brentwood Glasscock ||  || 1998
|-
| ''[[American Soldiers: A Day in Iraq]]'' || || Iraqi police officer ||  || 2005
|-
| ''[[All the King's Men (2006)]]'' || [[Mark Ruffalo]] || Dr. Adam Stanton ||  || 2006
|-
| ''[[Spirit, The|The Spirit]]'' || [[Eva Mendes]] || Sand Saref ||  || 2008
|-
| ''[[The Good, the Bad, the Weird]]'' || [[Jung Woo-sung]] || Park Do-won ||  || 2008
|-
| ''[[The Good, the Bad, the Weird]]'' ||  || Henchman ||  || 2008
|-
|''[[Fury (2014)|Fury]]''||[[Brad Pitt]]||Staff Sergeant Don "Wardaddy" Collier||  ||2014
|-
| ''[[Fury (2014)|Fury]]'' ||[[Logan Lerman]]|| Norman Ellison|| M3A1 ||2014
|-
| ''[[Hacksaw Ridge]]'' || [[Hugo Weaving]] || Tom Doss ||  || 2016
|-
| ''[[Hacksaw Ridge]]'' || [[Andrew Garfield]] || Desmond Doss ||  || 2016
|-
|''[[The Highwaymen]]''||[[Kevin Costner]]||Frank Hamer||  ||2019
|-
|}
==Television==
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|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="80"|'''Air Date'''
|-
| ''[[Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The|The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' || [[James Handy]] || Det. Frank Brady || Ep. "Spring Break Adventure" || 1992-1994
|}
==Video Games==
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|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Game Title'''
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|-
| ''[[BloodRayne]]'' || W&S 1917 ||  || 2002
|-
| ''[[Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault]]'' || ||  || 2004
|-
| ''[[Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth]]'' || ||  || 2005
|-
| ''[[Sniper Elite III]]'' || ||  || 2014
|-
|''[[Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 ]]'' || "S&W Revolver" || || 2015
|-
| ''[[Rising Storm 2: Vietnam]]'' || || || 2017
|-
| ''[[Enlisted]]'' || || Smith & Wesson M1917 || 2021
|-
|}
=Colt M1917 Revolver=
[[File:ColtModel1917ArmyEx.jpg|thumb|450px|right|Colt M1917 Revolver (Military issue with lanyard ring) - .45 ACP. Note the unsupported ejector rod - common of Colt revolvers of the period, as well as the Colt-style cylinder release latch and blade front sight. Smooth walnut grips were used on all WWI issue Model 1917 specimens]]


==Film==
==Film==
* Mr. Daniels ([[Cory Johnson]]) carries and uses two [[M1917 Revolver#|Colt New Service]] revolvers in ''[[The Mummy]]''
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
* Used by Liam Neeson as Michael Collins in ''[[Michael Collins]]''  (Colt New Service Revolver)
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
* Brendan Gleeson as Liam Tobin in ''[[Michael Collins]]'' (Colt New Service Revolver)
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Title'''
* Bonnie Parker [[Faye Dunaway]]), Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty), and Frank Hamer ([[Denver Pyle]]) use Colt New Service revolvers in Arthur Penn's [[Bonnie and Clyde]].
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
* Indiana Jones ([[Harrison Ford]]) uses a shortened S&W M1917 in [[Raiders of the Lost Ark]].
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
* Indiana Jones ([[Harrison Ford]]) Originally thought to be a rubber Colt M1917 that is droped out of the car window during the opening get away scene in [[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]], new documentation and photographic evidence shows it most likely to have been a 5 inch [[Smith & Wesson Model 10]] M&P Revolver.
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
* Appears in [[The Good, The Bad and The Ugly]] as one of the biggest firearm anachronisms in the history of cinema.
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
|rowspan=2|''[[Journey's End (1930)|Journey's End]]''|| [[Colin Clive]] || Capt. Denis Stanhope ||  ||rowspan=2|1930
|-
||Ian Maclaren || Lt. Osborne ||
|-
| ''[[Gun Crazy]]'' || [[John Dall]] || Bart Tare ||  || 1950
|-
| ''[[Halls of Montezuma]]'' || [[Reginald Gardner]] || Sgt. Johnson || With pearl grips, in shoulder holster || 1951
|-
| ''[[Amphibian Man (Chelovek-Amfibiya)]]'' || [[Mikhail Medvedev]] || Zurita's boatswain || || 1961
|-
| ''[[The Oil Prince]]'' || [[Stole Arandjelovic]] || Prince's henchman ||  || 1965
|-
|  ''[[El Dorado]]'' ||[[Robert Mitchum]]|| Sheriff J.P. Harran || Modified to look like a Colt SAA || 1967
|-
| ''[[Battles Without Honor and Humanity]]'' || [[Hiroshi Hatano]] || Police ||  || 1973
|-
|''[[Mulholland Falls]]''||[[Michael Madsen]]|| Det. Eddie Hall ||  || 1996
|-
| ''[[The Mummy]]'' || [[Cory Johnson]] || Mr. Daniels || Two revolvers || 1999
|-
| ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'' || [[Neal McDonough]] || Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan ||  || 2011
|-
| ''Rust'' || [[Alec Baldwin]] ||Harland Rust || film indefinitely suspended production || N/A
|-
|}


==Television==
==Television==
* ''[[The Professionals]]''
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
* ''[[The Lost Battalion]]''
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Show Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Air Date'''
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Fantômas (1980)|Fantômas]]'' || [[Jacques Dufilho]] || Inspecteur Juve || rowspan=2|Ep.2 || rowspan=2|1980
|-
| [[Jean-Paul Zehnacker]] || Lupart
|-
| ''[[Tales from the Crypt]]''||[[Eric Douglas]] || Lt. Kalthrob || episode: "Yellow" (S3E14) || 1991
|-
| ''[[The Lost Battalion]]'' || [[Jay Rodan]] || Lt. Leak ||  || 2001
|-
|''[[Agent Carter - Season 1|Agent Carter]]''||[[Neal McDonough]]||Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan|| "The Iron Ceiling" (S01E05)||2015
|-
| ''[[Westworld]]'' || [[Ben Barnes]] || Logan ||  || 2016
|-
|''[[Man in the High Castle, The - Season 3|The Man in the High Castle  - Season 3]]''||[[Jason Beaudoin]]||Griggs||||2018
|-
|}


==Video Games==
==Video Games==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="400"|'''Notation'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|''' Release Date'''
|-
| ''[[Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine]]'' || ||  || 1999
|-
| ''[[Forgotten Hope 2]]'' || "M1917 Colt" || Added in v2.2 (2009) || 2007
|-
| ''[[ State of Decay]]'' ||"M1917" ||  || 2013
|-
| ''[[Heroes & Generals]]'' || ||  || 2016
|-
| ''[[State of Decay 2]]'' || ||  || 2018
|-
| ''[[Beyond The Wire]]'' || "Colt M1917" |||| 2022
|-
|}
==Animation==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Voice Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Characters'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="350"|'''Notation'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="80"|''' Date'''
|-
| ''[[What If...? - Season 1]]'' || [[Neal McDonough]] || Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan||holstered; "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?" (S1E01) || 2021
|-
|}
<br clear=all>


* ''[[Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth]]''
==See Also==
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb]]''
* [[Smith & Wesson]] - A list of all firearms manufactured by Smith & Wesson.
* [[Colt's Manufacturing Company]] - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt.


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The M1917 Revolver refers to two .45 ACP revolvers with the same designation used by the United States during World War I. During World War I, the official sidearm of American forces was the M1911 Government .45 Automatic, however supply shortages forced the U.S. Army to ask two major gun manufacturers, Colt and Smith & Wesson, to each update their existing commercial heavy frame revolvers and build a version that could be fielded as a supplement to the standard M1911.

Colt already had an offering to the military, their M1909 heavy revolver, but it was chambered for the antiquated .45 Long Colt round. They re-chambered the revolver for the newly adopted .45 ACP round (calling the commercial variant "the Colt New Service Revolver"). Smith & Wesson re-chambered their own Second Model .44 Hand Ejector revolver as well. Thus there are two versions of the Model 1917 revolver that are externally very similar, one built by Colt and one built by Smith & Wesson.

Smith & Wesson continued the M1917 with the Model of 1950, later renamed Smith & Wesson Model 22 and Smith & Wesson Model 25.

The .45 ACP was a rimless round, and thus the revolvers required half (or full) moon clips to load the cartridges.

The M1917 Revolver and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Specifications

  • Weight: 2.5 lb (1.1 kg) (Colt), 2.25 lb (1 kg) (S&W)
  • Length: 10.8 in (274 mm)
  • Barrel length: 5.5 in (140 mm)
  • Cartridge: .45 ACP, .45 Auto Rim
  • Action: double action, solid frame with swing-out cylinder
  • Muzzle velocity: 760 ft/s ( 231.7 m/s)
  • Feed system: six-round cylinder, loaded singly (.45 Auto Rim) or with two three-round half-moon clips (.45 ACP)
  • Sights: blade front sight, notched rear sight

Smith & Wesson M1917 Revolver

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Smith & Wesson M1917 Revolver (Military issue with lanyard ring) - .45 ACP. Note the ejector-rod socket, common of a S&W revolver. Also note the S&W style cylinder release latch and half-moon front sight. These are the most easily distinguishable external differences between the Colt and S&W versions.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
The Heart of Humanity William Stowell John Patricia 1918
The Big Parade American officers 1925
All the King's Men police officer 1949
Paths of Glory Kirk Douglas Colonel Dax 1957
Farewell, Friend Alain Delon Dino Barran 1968
Farewell, Friend Charles Bronson Franz Propp 1968
Farewell, Friend Olga Georges-Picot Isabelle Moreau 1968
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Kris Kristofferson A biker 1974
The Great Gatsby Scott Wilson George Wilson 1974
Raiders of the Lost Ark Harrison Ford Indiana Jones Shortened 1981
Batman (1989) Jack Palance Carl Grissom 1989
Last Man Standing Thugs 1996
The Newton Boys Vincent D'Onofrio Dock Newton 1998
The Newton Boys Dwight Yoakam Brentwood Glasscock 1998
American Soldiers: A Day in Iraq Iraqi police officer 2005
All the King's Men (2006) Mark Ruffalo Dr. Adam Stanton 2006
The Spirit Eva Mendes Sand Saref 2008
The Good, the Bad, the Weird Jung Woo-sung Park Do-won 2008
The Good, the Bad, the Weird Henchman 2008
Fury Brad Pitt Staff Sergeant Don "Wardaddy" Collier 2014
Fury Logan Lerman Norman Ellison M3A1 2014
Hacksaw Ridge Hugo Weaving Tom Doss 2016
Hacksaw Ridge Andrew Garfield Desmond Doss 2016
The Highwaymen Kevin Costner Frank Hamer 2019

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note Air Date
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles James Handy Det. Frank Brady Ep. "Spring Break Adventure" 1992-1994

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notation Release Date
BloodRayne W&S 1917 2002
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault 2004
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth 2005
Sniper Elite III 2014
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 "S&W Revolver" 2015
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam 2017
Enlisted Smith & Wesson M1917 2021

Colt M1917 Revolver

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Colt M1917 Revolver (Military issue with lanyard ring) - .45 ACP. Note the unsupported ejector rod - common of Colt revolvers of the period, as well as the Colt-style cylinder release latch and blade front sight. Smooth walnut grips were used on all WWI issue Model 1917 specimens

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Journey's End Colin Clive Capt. Denis Stanhope 1930
Ian Maclaren Lt. Osborne
Gun Crazy John Dall Bart Tare 1950
Halls of Montezuma Reginald Gardner Sgt. Johnson With pearl grips, in shoulder holster 1951
Amphibian Man (Chelovek-Amfibiya) Mikhail Medvedev Zurita's boatswain 1961
The Oil Prince Stole Arandjelovic Prince's henchman 1965
El Dorado Robert Mitchum Sheriff J.P. Harran Modified to look like a Colt SAA 1967
Battles Without Honor and Humanity Hiroshi Hatano Police 1973
Mulholland Falls Michael Madsen Det. Eddie Hall 1996
The Mummy Cory Johnson Mr. Daniels Two revolvers 1999
Captain America: The First Avenger Neal McDonough Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan 2011
Rust Alec Baldwin Harland Rust film indefinitely suspended production N/A

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note Air Date
Fantômas Jacques Dufilho Inspecteur Juve Ep.2 1980
Jean-Paul Zehnacker Lupart
Tales from the Crypt Eric Douglas Lt. Kalthrob episode: "Yellow" (S3E14) 1991
The Lost Battalion Jay Rodan Lt. Leak 2001
Agent Carter Neal McDonough Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan "The Iron Ceiling" (S01E05) 2015
Westworld Ben Barnes Logan 2016
The Man in the High Castle - Season 3 Jason Beaudoin Griggs 2018

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notation Release Date
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine 1999
Forgotten Hope 2 "M1917 Colt" Added in v2.2 (2009) 2007
State of Decay "M1917" 2013
Heroes & Generals 2016
State of Decay 2 2018
Beyond The Wire "Colt M1917" 2022

Animation

Title Voice Actor Characters Notation Date
What If...? - Season 1 Neal McDonough Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan holstered; "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?" (S1E01) 2021


See Also

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