Frank Riva - Season 1
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The following weapons were used in Season 1 of the television series Frank Riva
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Revolvers Smith & Wesson Model 36 A nickel plated Smith & Wesson Model 36 with Pachmayr grips is a personal sidearm of police Commissioner Lydie Herzog (Sophie von Kessel ). During the shootout with Norbert Loggia's bodyguards her revolver switches to a Ruger SP101 (see below) and then back to S&W.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nickel Smith & Wesson Model 36 - .38 Special. Unlike the sample, the screen gun has Pachmayr grips. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Commissioner Lydie Herzog holds her revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A side view of the revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A view from another side. The revolver looks too bright for stainless steel Smith & Wesson Model 60 or aluminum alloy frame Smith & Wesson Model 637 Airweight . Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lt. Jean-Luc Roth (Matthieu Rozé ), exposed as a corrupt police officer, takes Lydie Herzog as hostage, threatening her with her own revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closer view of the revolver in hands of Lt. Roth. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The revolver on the ground. Pachmayr grips are seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lydie Herzog's revolver switches back to S&W Model 36 after the shootout with Loggia's bodyguards. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Commissioner Lydie Herzog with her nickel plated Smith & Wesson Model 36 and one of her men with an unknown revolver. Ruger SP101 During the shootout with Norbert Loggia's bodyguards Commissioner Lydie Herzog (Sophie von Kessel ) uses a Ruger SP101 that switches back to her usual nickel plated Smith & Wesson Model 36 after the shootout.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ruger SP101 - .357 Magnum Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lydie Herzog aims her revolver. Manurhin F1 Capt. Hervé Sebastian (Cédric Chevalme ), Lt. Guy "Guido" Buscema (François Vincentelli ) and some other police personnel carry Manurhin F1 revolvers.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Manurhin F1 - .357 Magnum Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sebastian threatens Riva during the confrontation between the two. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closeup of Sebastian's revolver. Ruger-style cylinder release can be seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lt. Buscema with a Manurhin F1. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sebastian fires at Lt. Roth when the latter takes Commissioner Lydie Herzog as hostage. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Buscema in shootout with Loggia's bodyguards. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the muzzle of Buscema's revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Commissioner Lorneau (Patrice Juiff ) holds a revolver that appears to be a Manurhin F1 with nickel finish. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Lorneau's revolver. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Lorneau's revolver. Various Revolvers Numerous police personnel carry revolvers in holsters. Some revolvers are also seen in action but they aren't seen clear enough for identification (though Manurhin F1 or MR-73 are most possible versions).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Several police officers carry revolvers in holsters during the funeral of Commissioner Rezzoni. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An officer of special police unit (at the left) carries a revolver in holster. The logo on the grip matches Manurhin production. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Police officers of Commissioner Lydie Herzog's group fire their revolvers during the shootout with Loggia's bodyguards. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Commissioner Lydie Herzog with her nickel plated Smith & Wesson Model 36 and one of her men with an unknown revolver. Pistols Colt M1911 When Frank Riva (Alain Delon ) comes back in Paris, his old friend Xavier Unger (Jacques Perrin ), now the director-general of the General Directorate of the National Police, hands back Riva's Colt M1911 that was kept by Unger for a quarter century. Riva uses this pistol throughout the series.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Original Colt M1911 (dated 1913) - .45 ACP Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Frank Riva gets back his pistol. The gun has deep blue finish. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Riva's pistol in hands of Lt. Jean-Luc Roth (Matthieu Rozé ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Riva surprises a mafia sniper. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A good view of the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Riva holds at gunpoint a female driver of drug transporting van. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Frank Riva during the confrontation with Maxime Loggia, current drug boss. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Frank Riva with his Colt M1911. Frank Riva holds his pistol on a promotion still. Smith & Wesson 6906 Drug boss Maxime Loggia (Luis Marquès ) uses a Smith & Wesson 6906 when he takes as hostage pregnant Nina Rizzi (Mélanie Maudran), Frank Riva's daughter. A female enforcer of Colombian drug mafia Minda Fierro (Carmela Ramos ) uses same looking pistol, most likely same prop.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smith & Wesson 6906 pistol - 9x19mm. This is the screen used gun in the movie The Usual Suspects Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxime Loggia takes Nina Rizzi as hostage. Note the concealed hammer of the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxime aims at Frank Riva. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxime holds the pistol at Riva's head. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Minda Fierro threatens Frank Riva and Catherine Sinclair (Mireille Darc ). Again the concealed hammer can be seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Minda Fierro holds the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing She holds the gun at Riva's head. M1911-style pistol A stainless steel (or possibly but less credible nickel plated) M911-style pistol is used by Marie Forlo (Alice Taglioni ) during her revenge on aged and retired criminals who killed Marie's father many years ago. The pistol has uncommon combination of classic 1911-style slide with vertical serration and angular trigger guard.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Marie Forlo fires at ex-gangsters. Taurus PT908 (see below) was gunned by Commissioner Herzog but then he appears again, this time holding the M1911-style pistol). This pistol also has vertical slide serration and angular trigger guard, but differs in finish (blued) and has adjustable rear sight.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing The bodyguard fires. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the pistol. Eric Defosse ).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jimmy Esperanza threates Frank Riva and Catherine Sinclair (Mireille Darc ). Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Esperanza's pistol. Taurus PT908 During the killing of aged criminals Marie Forlo's (Alice Taglioni ) gun switches from M1911-style pistol to a stainless Taurus PT908 . Marie continues using this pistol until she is disarmed by a Loggia's bodyguard.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Taurus PT908 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Marie's M1911-style pistol switches to a Taurus PT908. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Marie's pistol on the table. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Marie takes her pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing She holds Loggia's bodyguard at gunpoint. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Marie aims. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A side view of the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Loggia's bodyguard with Marie's pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The bodyguard fires at police. He is then gunned by Commissioner Herzog but then this character is seen again, this time holding an M1911-style pistol (see above). Beretta 92 style A pistol, used for assassination of Commissioner Tony Rezzoni, is hidden by Jean-Luc Roth and later found by Frank Riva. Riva threatens Roth with this pistol. This is Beretta 92 style pistol but as the back of the slide together with the grip and trigger guard is wrapped in some soft cloth, it's impossible to identify the gun as Beretta, a Taurus PT92 or some other Beretta clone.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing For comparison: Beretta 92FS - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Riva holds the pistol at Roth's head. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closeup of the pistol. The lack of slide-mounted safety allows to differ this pistol from Beretta 92FS. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another close view of the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Riva holds the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Riva threatens Roth. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the same scene. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Riva puts the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The pistol is seen on promotion still. The wrapping on the back of the pistol is seen better. Beretta 92FS Inspector Serge Graves (Philippe Maymat ) carries a Beretta 92FS pistol.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Beretta 92FS - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Graves aims. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Graves fires at escaping van, loaded with drugs. SIG-Sauer P220 style A SIG-Sauer P220 style pistol, fitted with weaponlight, is used by an officer of special police unit during the attack on drug dealer Eric Chaelle's hideout. Some holstered pistols, seen in this scene, may be of same model.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing For comparison: SIG-Sauer P226R fitted with a weaponlight - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A police officer, covering behing a ballistic shield, aims his pistol, fitted with weapolight. Strangely the pistol seems to lack any kind of front sight. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two police officers break the door of Eric Chaelle's hideout, using a modern battering ram. The man at the right carries a pistol in holster. The shape of the grip allows to guess that it's also a SIG-Sauer. Various pistols Various pistols that are seen partially or in distance appear in the series.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A drug dealer at the right holds a pistol with long barrel. The general shape resembles small caliber target pistols. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The commander of special police unit holds a pistol with Beretta-style open-top slide but a different muzzle part. He also carries a Manurhin revolver in holster. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An ex-gangster Claude Lupo (Beppe Chierici ) holds Hervé Sebastian (Cédric Chevalme ) at gunpoint with a pistol that is possibly a compact Beretta, like Beretta 80 series . Non-Gun Beretta 92F In the opening scene corrupt police Lt. Jean-Luc Roth (Matthieu Rozé ) murders Commissioner Tony Rezzoni (Philippe Baronnet ), shooting him in the back. In this scene Roth's pistol appears to be a Non-Gun Beretta 92F .
Beretta 92F Non Gun Error creating thumbnail: File missing Roth aims at Rezzoni who is engaged in shootout with criminals. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Roth "fires". Mockup pistols In several scenes real guns are substituted with mockups.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing When Frank Riva holds his M1911 at Jean-Luc Roth's head, the pistol switches to a mockup. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A mockup Beretta 92 in hands of Loggia's bodyguard. Note that the trigger is connected with trigger guard. Error creating thumbnail: File missing What appears to be replica of Beretta 92FS (possibly airsoft, judging by the hole in the grip ) is a weapon of female driver (Candice Hugo) of van, loaded with drugs. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The driver tries to get the pistol. Error creating thumbnail: File missing She is disarmed by Frank Riva. Note the markings on the grip that doesn't match real Beretta pistols. Submachine Guns Mini Uzi In the opening scene Commissioner Marc-Antoine "Tony" Rezzoni (Philippe Baronnet ) and Lt. Jean-Luc Roth (Matthieu Rozé ) use Mini Uzi submachine guns, fitted with tactical flashlights, mounted on the receivers. One of Norbert Loggia's bodyguards is armed with a Mini Uzi during the shootout with police.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing IMI Mini Uzi - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Roth with Mini Uzi. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rezzoni with Mini Uzi. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Mini Uzi next to dead Rezzoni. This SMG lacks the flashlight due to continuty error. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Loggia's bodyguard with Mini Uzi. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view of the submachine gun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The said bodyguard surrenders to police. Beretta M12 Beretta M12 submachine guns are used by police personnel in several scenes.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Beretta PM12S - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two police officers, armed with Beretta M12 submachine guns, guard the house of Xavier Unger, the director-general of the General Directorate of the National Police. Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of the police officers of Commissioner Herzog's group fires a Beretta M12 during the shootout with Loggia's bodyguards. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Unfolded stock of Beretta M12 is seen at the right in the scene after the said shootout. Heckler & Koch MP5A3/MP5F Heckler & Koch MP5A3 submachine guns are seen in hands of police personnel in several scenes. Some of them, if not all, appear to be French police issued version MP5F.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Heckler & Koch MP5F (a specially modified version of MP5A3 for the French police) without magazine -9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A closeup of an MP5F (note the shape of the handguard with foregrip) during the storming of the hideout of drug dealer Eric Chaelle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another police officer holds an MP5 in same scene. This SMG lacks the foregrip but the handguard seems to be that same that on MP5F. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An MP5 with underbarrel flashlight in hands of a police officer. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A plainclothes police officer of Commissioner Lorneau's unit appears from a car with an MP5F in hands. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Same character holds his MP5F. Assault Rifles SIG SG 552 Several police officers carry SIG SG 552 compact assault rifles during the storming of the hideout of drug dealer Eric Chaelle.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing SIG SG 552 - 5.56x45mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two officers of a special police unit with SG 552 rifles. Sniper Rifles SIG SG 550 SR A SIG SG 550 SR sniper rifle (probably a single prop reused) is seen in hands of a police sniper and of a drug mafia hitman, hunting for Marie Forlo.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing SIG SG 550 SR - 5.56x45mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A police sniper (in center) holds an SG 550 SR sniper rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The sniper on position. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of the sniper rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A drug mafia hitman aims his SG 550 SR. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The hitman is surprised by Frank Riva. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The abandoned sniper rifle is seen at the left. Bolt action sniper rifle A bolt action sniper rifle of unidentified model is used by Maxime Loggia's lieutenant Renaud Berson (Jean-Claude Dauphin ).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing For comparison: Remington 700 BDL rifle with no iron sights and scope (current production) - .308 Winchester Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Berson aims at Frank Riva from a window. Note the heavy barrel. Shotguns Remington 870 In the opening scene Capt. Hervé Sebastian (Cédric Chevalme ) and Lt. Guy "Guido" Buscema (François Vincentelli ) are armed with Remington 870 shotguns with pistol grips. Buscema's shotgun is fitted with Choate folding stock, Sebastian's shotgun has a rail system and raised vented rib, and both guns are fitted with underbarrel flashlights. A Remington 870 with Choate folding stock is also used by an officer of special police unit.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Remington 870 with black furniture and pistol grip - 12 gauge Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sebastian at the right, Buscema at the left aims their shotguns. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing A close view of Sebastian's shotgun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Buscema holds his shotgun at the right. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Both shotguns are seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The flashlight on Buscema's shotgun is seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sebastian aims. The pistol grip of Buscema's shotgun is also seen. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another view of Sebastian, aiming his shotgun. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An officer of special police unit holds a Remington 870 with Choate stock and flashlight; possibly it's the same prop that was used by Buscema in the opening scene. Mossberg 500 A police officer of Commissioner Lorneau's group is armed with a Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mossberg 500AT Shotgun - 12 gauge. Note the wood furniture. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A plainclothes police officer holds a Mossberg 500 with wooden furniture. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A full view of this shotgun. Winchester Model 1300 What appears to be a Winchester Model 1300 is seen in hands of another police officer of Commissioner Lorneau's group.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Winchester Model 1300 with extended tube & rubber butt pad - 12 gauge Error creating thumbnail: File missing A police officer at the right holds a Winchester Model 1300 with extended magazine. Unidentified pump action shotguns Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two officers of special police unit hold pump action shotguns. The man in center has a shotgun with extended magazine tube; it's hard to say if this shotgun is fitted with a buttstock or a pistol grip. The man at the right holds a shotgun with pistol grip and seemingly also with extended magazine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing One of the police officers of Commissioner Herzog's group aims a shotgun. It seems to have a shortened barrel. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another police officer holds a shotgun with extended magazine. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A pump shotgun is seen in hands of a police officer at the left. Double Barreled Coach Gun A kind of Coach Gun is used by Eric Chaelle's henchman.
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