Star Model B

The Star Model B pistol as been seen used by the following actors in the following movies, television, anime, and videogames.

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Star Model B Pistol, blued finish - 9mm. This is a screen used Star Model B from the 1987 film The Untouchables.

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Star Model B Pistol with a custom bright nickel plated finish and pearl grips - 9mm. This is a screen used Star Model B from the film Pulp Fiction.

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Blued Star Model B - 9mm pistol from the movie The Untouchables (1987). This one is a screen used and fired handgun in the movie and was used by Kevin Costner on screen.

This Spanish Pistol, known overseas as the Star Modelo B, appears in many Hollywood movies as a substitute for the Govt. Model 1911, since it fired the hotter and more reliable 9mm blanks. Also in the older days of cinema, armorers had trouble getting .45 ACP blanks to cycle in pistols, so 9mm was substituted whenever possible. With newer powders and blank conversion techniques, most problems with the .45 ACP pistols have been solved.

The Spanish Star Model B can be seen in:

Films

• The Sand Pebbles

• The Wild Bunch

• The Getaway

• Samuel L. Jackson as Jules in Pulp Fiction (Nickel Plated version)

• Ben Johnson as Melvin Purvis in Dillinger (Nickel Plated version)

• Kevin Costner as Eliott Ness and Billy Drago as Frank Nitti in The Untouchables (Drago's was Nickel plated)

• Lincoln Kilpatrick as Zachary in The Omega Man

• Ray Walston as Edgar Whiney in Silver Streak

• A Czech soldier in The Living Daylights

Television

• Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H*