Operation Corned Beef (L'opération Corned Beef): Difference between revisions
Operation Corned Beef (L'opération Corned Beef): Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Operation Corned Beef (L'opération Corned Beef): Difference between revisions
Various unidentified revolvers are briefly seen in several scenes.
Various unidentified revolvers are briefly seen in several scenes.
[[File:Operation Corned Beef-Revolver-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Zargas' henchman fires a snub nose revolver during the opening scene in Bogota, Colombia.]]
[[File:Operation Corned Beef-Revolver-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Zargas' henchman fires a snub nose revolver during the opening scene in Bogota, Colombia. It is possibly a Smith & Wesson N-frame .357.]]
[[File:Operation Corned Beef-Revolver-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Another henchman fires a revolver in the same scene.]]
[[File:Operation Corned Beef-Revolver-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Another henchman fires a revolver in the same scene.]]
[[File:Operation Corned Beef-Revolver-15.jpg|thumb|none|600px|DGSI operatives hold revolvers during the attempt to arrest Lt. Isabelle Fourreau.]]
[[File:Operation Corned Beef-Revolver-15.jpg|thumb|none|600px|DGSI operatives hold revolvers during the attempt to arrest Lt. Isabelle Fourreau. The revolver at the left is possibly a [[Manurhin MR-73]] with 3" barrel and duty sights.]]
[[File:Operation Corned Beef-Revolver-16.jpg|thumb|none|600px|One of Zargas' bodyguards holds a revolver in the climactic scene.]]
[[File:Operation Corned Beef-Revolver-16.jpg|thumb|none|600px|One of Zargas' bodyguards holds a revolver in the climactic scene, possibly a [[Colt Python]].]]
Operation Corned Beef (L'opération Corned Beef) is a French 1991 action comedy directed by Jean-Marie Poiré. Capt. Boulier aka "Shark" (Jean Reno), a French intelligence (DGSE) officer, conducts an operation against Zargas, an illegal arms dealer from South America who is connected with some person in highest ranks of French officials. DGSE sets a covert listening device in a jewellery of Marie-Laurence Granianski, a secretary of a German consul Burger who is a contact to Zargas. When Marie-Laurence announces that she plans a vacation with her husband just in time of the negotiations of Burger and Zargas, the intelligence service tries to break these plans by provoking an adulter of Marie-Laurence's husband Jean-Jacques Granianski with beautiful Isabelle Fourreau who is a Lieutenant of DGSE and - to make things even more complicated - Boulier's bride (and Boulier is overjealous!).
The following weapons were used in the film Operation Corned Beef (L'opération Corned Beef):
Aspirant (NCO) Monique Garcia (Mireille Rufel) carries a Smith & Wesson Model 27 with 8" barrel, fitted with a sniper scope. The revolver is identified as .357 Model 27 rather than .44 Model 29 due to the large gap between the frame and the front of the cylinder. Similar revolver, except for the sniper scope, is used by one of Zargas' henchmen during the car chase.
In the opening scene in Colombia Capt. Philippe Boulier (Jean Reno) is armed with a snub nose revolver that appears to be a Charter Arms Off Duty or other in the Charter Arms .38/.357 series.
During most of the story Capt. Philippe Boulier (Jean Reno) carries a Smith & Wesson Model 19 with 3" barrel and Smith & Wesson ergonomic rosewood grips.
In the opening scene one of Zargas' henchmen uses a nickel plated Smith & Wesson 59 pistol to kill a bystander. It is a 1st Gen pistol as the slide stop pin is in front of the double stack frame step.
