Dead Bang: Difference between revisions
Dead Bang: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Dead Bang: Difference between revisions
Dead Bang is a 1989 thriller starring Don Johnson as Jerry Beck, a Los Angeles Sheriff's Department homicide detective who while investigating the murder of a fellow deputy uncovers a conspiracy involving white supremacists. The film was directed by John Frankenheimer and was inspired by an actual case.
The following weapons were used in the film Dead Bang:
The Browning Hi-Power is the preferred weapon of multiple characters in the film.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingClassic Commercial Browning Hi Power (Belgian Mfg) - 9mmError creating thumbnail: File missingThe Browning HP is loaded and chambered at the film's beginning.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe killer at the beginning holds his Browning Hi-Power on the convenience store clerk.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe shooting as seen in the security mirror. Trivia: An example of using camera angles to safely "shoot" an actor at close range. The image is distorted by the convex mirror, but the actor playing the killer is aiming away from the victim (who is 'squibbed' with blood hits). He is 'shooting' his blanks towards the far end of the counter.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe killer pulls the Browning HP 9mm on Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Sgt. Kimble (Mic Rodgers).Error creating thumbnail: File missingA closeup of Bobby's Browning Hi-Power as he prepares to kill the patrons of an Hispanic bar and John Burns with yet another Browning Hi-Power - 9mm
Beretta 92FS
Though he carries a Browning Hi-Power throughout the film, Bobby Burns switches to a Beretta 92FS during a gun fight in the street.
FBI Special Agent Arthur Kressler (William Forsythe) carries a Smith & Wesson Model 13 with a 3" Barrel. Standard issue for F.B.I. agents in the late eighties.
Guards at the Aryan compound all carry full stock AK47 rifles. They don't have the Chinese AK hoods so they are true AK47s or accurate clones.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingPoly Technologies AK-47 - 7.62x39mm. This is the commercial clone of the original Type III AK-47 and is the most used in American films and shows when showing the milled receiver AK-47Error creating thumbnail: File missingSilhouetted guard in the tower holds a milled receiver AK47 rifle - 7.62x39mm
Norinco Type 56-1
Sleepy (Mickey Jones) also carries a Norinco Type 56-1 Underfolder AK during the fight at the abandoned house.
An Ithaca 37 is seen mounted in the squad car driven by Chief Hillard (Brad Sullivan) and later used by Jerry Beck (Don Johnson) at the gunfight at the abandoned house.
