Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is seen loading up a Colt Detective Special while in a drunken state during a flashback at the begining of the film, on trial for killing his cheating wife and her lover. While he didn't do it, he threw the gun in the river, ruining his chance of proving his gun didn't commit the crime.
Captain Hadley (Clancy Brown) uses an M14 Rifle fitted with a scope to kill Tommy (Gil Bellows) when he tries to tell the prison that he knew the man who realy killed Dufresne's wife and lover. It is not likely an M21, since prisons aren't usually outfitted with Marine sniper weaponry. Since at the time this scene takes place, the M14 and M21 rifles were in frontline service with the U.S. Military, it is doubtful they would be issued to guards in some smalltown Maine prison.
Warden Norton (Bob Gunton) pulls a Smith & Wesson Snubnose revolver from his desk when the police try to break into his office to arrest him for tax fraud and murder. He loads up the gun with the intention of fighting them, but changes his mind and commits suicide instead.
Anyone know what this is? -GM
It is either a Smith & Wesson Model 10 or the Smith & Wesson Model 12 Airweight. The Model 10 has an all steel frame. The frame is the mid size K-frame. The Model 12 had a steel cylinder and an aluminium alloy frame. It was also a K frame revolver. Both models could be had with either a four inch or a two inch barrel.Both models were made with the square butt and the round butt. Both revolvers holds six cartridges in the cylinder. -Jcordell
