The Untouchables (1959) - Season 1: Difference between revisions
The Untouchables (1959) - Season 1: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
The Untouchables (1959) - Season 1: Difference between revisions
[[Image:UntouchCOP-Credits.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The opening credits of ''The Untouchables'', featuring a Colt Official Police.]]
[[Image:UntouchCOP-Credits.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The opening credits of ''The Untouchables'', featuring a Colt Official Police.]]
[[Image:UntouchCOP-101a.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Agents Martin Flaherty ([[Jerry Paris]]) and Eliot Ness ([[Robert Stack]]) with their Colt Official Police revolvers drawn in "The Empty Chair" (1.01).]]
[[Image:UntouchCOP-101a.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Agents Martin Flaherty ([[Jerry Paris]]) and Eliot Ness ([[Robert Stack]]) with their Colt Official Police revolvers drawn in "The Empty Chair" (1.01).]]
[[Image:UntouchCOP-102a.jpg|thumb|none|500px|In Florida in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.03), Eliot Ness stands with his Official Police drawn in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.03).]]
[[Image:UntouchCOP-102a.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Eliot Ness stands with his Official Police drawn in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.03).]]
[[Image:Untouch104-Colt1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Barney "Bugs" Birch ([[Charles McGraw]]) checks his Colt Official Police in "The Jake Lingle Killing" (1.04).]]
[[Image:Untouch104-Colt1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Barney "Bugs" Birch ([[Charles McGraw]]) checks his Colt Official Police in "The Jake Lingle Killing" (1.04).]]
In "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02), bank robber Fred Barker (Joe Di Reda) carries two original M1911 pistols, differentiated from the later M1911A1 model by the flat mainspring housing. In "The George 'Bugs' Moran Story" (1.03), mob enforcer George "Blackie" Anderson (Kem Dibbs) carries an M1911 in a shoulder holster.
The primary sidearm of The Untouchables is the Colt Official Police, chambered in .38 Special and carried in a shoulder holster. The Official Police is carried by Eliot Ness (Robert Stack), Martin Flaherty (Jerry Paris), Enrico "Rico" Rossi (Nicholas Georgiade), and William Youngfellow (Abel Fernandez), among others. A Colt Official Police is also prominently featured in the show's opening credits. Several Official Police revolvers are also seen in the Barker gang's arsenal in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02), one of which was handled by Lloyd Barker (Adam Williams) when he hides during Ness' first visit to the Barker home.
A Colt New Service M1909 revolver is one of the few firearms left in the Barker gang's arsenal when The Untouchables discover their Florida hideout in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02).
"Doc" Barker (Peter Baldwin) is briefly seen with an anachronistic Colt Official Police Heavy Barrel revolver with a 4" barrel and ramped front sight in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02).
Gangsters and lawmen frequently use Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolvers. A Smith & Wesson is seen in the Barker gang's arsenal in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02).
George "Bugs" Moran (Lloyd Nolan) fires at police with a Colt Police Positive in "The George 'Bugs' Moran Story" (1.03). Mob hitman Leo Vincent Brothers (James Lanphier) drops a Police Positive at the scene of the titular crime in "The Jake Lingle Killing" (1.04).
Gangsters and lawmen alike carry the M1921AC Thompson submachine gun. Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) uses one to eliminate his rivals in "The Empty Chair" (1.01). Several are part of the Barker gang's arsenal in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02), used by Ma Barker (Claire Trevor), Lloyd Barker (Adam Williams), and Fred Barker (Joe Di Reda).
During the gunfight in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02), the Thompson carried by "Untouchable" agent Martin Flaherty (Jerry Paris) alternates between a genuine M1921AC model and an obvious replica.
Several Florida state police officers accompanying The Untouchables against the Barker gang in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02) carry Winchester Model 1892 lever-action rifles.
For some reason, the funeral procession in for corrupt Chicago reporter Jake Lingle includes U.S. Navy servicemen carrying ceremonial M1903 Springfield rifles in "The Jake Lingle Killing" (1.04). It's worth noting that the real Lingle had no military history, and the show makes no mention of any military history for his fictional counterpart.
The Untouchables - especially Agent William Youngfellow (Abel Fernandez) - often use Winchester Model 1897 shotguns with riot-length barrels during their many raids. Lloyd Barker (Adam Williams) hands one off to Fred Barker (Joe Di Reda) in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02).
One of the mob hoods who corners Jack Zuta in Wisconsin in "The Jake Lingle Killing" (1.04) carries a hammerless double-barreled shotgun with a sawed-down barrel. In the same episode, a mob bootlegger appropriately riding "shotgun" carries a double-barreled shotgun for a late night liquor run.
Ma Barker (Claire Trevor) and Fred Barker (Joe Di Reda) both toss Mk 2 hand grenades at The Untouchables during the Florida gunfight in "Ma Barker and Her Boys" (1.02).
