Silverado: Difference between revisions
Silverado: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Silverado: Difference between revisions
[[Image:SilveradoWin66.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Winchester 1866 rifle on the top of the wall rack.]]
[[Image:SilveradoWin66.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Winchester 1866 rifle on the top of the wall rack.]]
==Enfield Mk. II==
Sheriff John T. Langston ([[John Cleese]]) uses an [[Webley Mk IV|Enfield Mk. II]] revolver, the prediscessor to the Webley, as his sidearm in the film.
[[Image:EnfieldMkII.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Enfield Mk. II - .476 Enfield.]]
[[Image:SilveradoEnfieldMkII-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sheriff Langston aims his Enfield Mk. II revolver at Mal while his deputy aims his Winchester 1873 rifle.]]
[[Image:SilveradoEnfieldMkII-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Langston fires his Enfield Mk. II at Jake and Paden when they escape the prison.]]
[[Image:SilveradoEnfieldMkII-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Langston firing his Enfield Mk. II.]]
[[Image:SilveradoEnfieldMkII-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Langston pursues Emmet, Pedan, and JAke with his Enfield Mk. II drawn.]]
Revision as of 01:49, 23 October 2008
The following guns were used in the film Silverado:
The gun used mostly by just about everyone in the film is the Single Action Army revolver in the various barrel lengths and calibers. Many look to be in far too good condition to be the guns of Frontiersman and have obviously newer color case hardening as evident by the fact it isn't worn in the slightest. Back during that day, they used Cyanide to color case harden, unaware how unsafe it was to use. Today, more conventional and longer lasting methods are used. It is likely these guns were supplied by Aldo Uberti Inc., a major 19th century firearms company today. Do to the extreme frequence of these guns in the film, there are a lot of screenshots for them.
I hate uploading guns when I can't I.D. them but I just can't figure this one out. When Paden (Kevin Kline) runs into the gunshop to buy a gun to kill the man who stole his horse, his lack of money leaves him with a hunk of junk revolver which I cannot identify. The gun clearly has a swing open action (anachronistic to the time), but the gun is so shoddy, the cylinder falls off the action when opened. Anyone who has seen The Quick and the Dead would know that this scene was replicated somewhat in that film. (I'm ordering that movie off eBay to screencap as well. Leave this comment on so people know not to screen it.) -GM.
Winchester 1866 "Yellow Boy" (mocked up as Henry 1860)
Malachi "Mal" Johnson (Danny Glover) uses a Winchester 1866 "Yellow Boy" rifle mocked up like a Henry 1860 by removing the fore-end. The dead give aways are the loading gate on the reciever and the lack of a magazine tube slit and spring follower under the magazine tube. It is rather strange that he would use this fake Henry when his father uses an actual Henry rifle in the movie.
Ezra Johnson (Joe Seneca), Mal's father, uses a Henry 1860 rifle with an engraved reciever. When murdered by some of Cobb's thugs, the gun is used by one of them until that man is killed by Emmet (Scott Glenn). Emmet then uses the gun when preparing for a fight, shooting the prickers off a cactus plant. The rifle is then given to Mal and he uses both the Henry and his fake Henry (made from a Winchester 1866 rifle) during the gunfight at the ranch.
