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| ''[[Sergeant York]]'' || || || Mocked up to look like Kentucky Rifle || 1941 | | ''[[Sergeant York]]'' || || || Mocked up to look like Kentucky Rifle || 1941 | ||
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| ''[[Red River]]'' || [[John Wayne]] || Thomas Dunson || || 1948 | |||
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| ''[[Fort Apache]]'' || || Native American || || 1948 | | ''[[Fort Apache]]'' || || Native American || || 1948 | ||
Revision as of 14:40, 9 May 2013
Specifications
Type: Rifle
Caliber: .45-70
Capacity: 1 round
Fire Modes: Single shot
The Trapdoor Springfield refers to a series of breech loading rifles developed by Springfield, beginning with the Springfield Model 1868 (chambered in .50-70) up to the Springfield Model 1870 (.45-70) and then the most famous Model 1873, which was adopted by the U.S. Army (chambered in .45-70), and the later Models 1877, 1884 and 1888.
The Model 1873 (full sized or cavalry carbine version) is the most likely variant of the Trapdoor Springfield rifle to appear in movies or television shows.
The Trapdoor Springfield (1873) has been seen in the following:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sergeant York | Mocked up to look like Kentucky Rifle | 1941 | ||
| Red River | John Wayne | Thomas Dunson | 1948 | |
| Fort Apache | Native American | 1948 | ||
| Fort Apache | US Cavalry | Cavalry Carbine | 1948 | |
| Fort Apache | Hank Worden | recruit | Cavalry Carbine | 1948 |
| Fort Apache | Pedro Armendáriz | SGT Beaufort | Cavalry Carbine | 1948 |
| Fort Apache | George O'Brien | CPT Collingwood | Cavalry Carbine | 1948 |
| Fort Apache | Ward Bond | SGM Michael O'Rourke | Cavalry Carbine | 1948 |
| Fort Apache | John Agar | 2LT Michael Shannon O'Rourke | Cavalry Carbine | 1948 |
| Fort Apache | Victor McLaglen | SGT Festus Mulcahy | Cavalry Carbine | 1948 |
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Ben Johnson | Sergeant Tyree | Cavalry Carbine | 1949 |
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | US Cavalry | Cavalry Carbine | 1949 | |
| Rio Grande | US Cavalry | Cavalry Carbine | 1950 | |
| Rio Grande | Ben Johnson | Trooper Travis Tyree | Cavalry Carbine | 1950 |
| Rio Grande | Harry Carey Jr. | Trooper Daniel "Sandy" Boone | Cavalry Carbine | 1950 |
| Rio Grande | Fred Kennedy | Trooper Heinze | Cavalry Carbine | 1950 |
| Rio Grande | Claude Jarman Jr. | Trooper Jefferson Yorke | Cavalry Carbine | 1950 |
| Rio Grande | Chill Wills | Dr. Wilkins | Cavalry Carbine | 1950 |
| Rio Grande | Steve Pendleton | CPT Prescott | Cavalry Carbine | 1950 |
| Winchester '73 | Tony Curtis | Doan | Cavalry Carbine | 1950 |
| Winchester '73 | James Best | Crater | Cavalry Carbine | 1950 |
| Magnificent Seven, The | A villager | Cavalry Carbine | 1960 | |
| Master of the World | Wally Campo | Turner | Cut down to be used as a pistol | 1961 |
| 55 Days at Peking | Chinese "Boxers" | 1963 | ||
| Rio Conchos | 1964 | |||
| For a Few Dollars More | Prison guards | 1966 | ||
| Trail of the Falcon | Cavalrymen and gold-diggers | Cavalry Carbine | 1968 | |
| Little Big Man | Dustin Hoffman | Jack Crabb | Cavalry Carbine | 1970 |
| Rio Lobo | Union Cavalry and Confederate soldiers | Cavalry Carbine | 1970 | |
| The Beguiled | Clint Eastwood | Cpl. John McBurney | 1971 | |
| The Cowboys | Robert Carradine | Slim Honeycutt | 1972 | |
| The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Barry Brown | Henry Wheeler | 1972 | |
| Oklahoma Crude | Lena´s Indians helper | Cavalry Carbine | 1973 | |
| Posse | Outlaws | 1975 | ||
| Heaven's Gate | Jeff Bridges | John L. Bridges | 1980 | |
| Heaven's Gate | Gordana Rashovich | Mrs. Kovach | 1980 | |
| Heaven's Gate | Various characters | 1980 | ||
| Thunderheart | Cavalry trooper | Cavalry Carbine | 1992 | |
| Van Helsing | Velken's men | 2003 | ||
| King Solomon's Mines | A native hunter | Cavalry Carbine | 2004 | |
| Miracle at Sage Creek | Daniel Quinn | Seth | Cavalry Carbine | 2005 |
| Miracle at Sage Creek | Thadd Turner | Sergeant Banks | Cavalry Carbine | 2005 |
| Miracle at Sage Creek | US Cavalry | Cavalry Carbine | 2005 | |
| Appaloosa | Apache warriors | 2008 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Son of the Morning Star | The 7th Cavalry | Cavalry Carbine | 1991 | |
| Rough Riders | U.S. Army soldiers and Cuban rebels | 1997 |
Video Games
| Title | Appears as | Mods | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Dead Redemption | "Springfield Rifle" | Cavalry Carbine | 2010 |