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NitroX
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Double rifles in the movies
#17183 - 26/07/04 01:38 AM

Just watching Jurassic Park again and admired the double rifle used by the Professional Hunter and was wondering what other movies can NE.com members think of where double rifles are used.

I can think of a few straight away.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: NitroX]
#17190 - 26/07/04 04:38 AM

Michael Douglas uses a good looking double rifle and pistol in “the Ghost and the Darkness.” Also in a few scenes, Val Kilmer tries to use a Farquharson Rifle. The only other movie I can think of is “Out of Africa” there are a number of good looking Doubles that film.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: NitroX]
#17191 - 26/07/04 04:40 AM

Oh yea, one other I just thought of there are two classic under leaver doubles in “Lock stock and two smoking barrels” I don’t remember if they say what they are, but they are one of the key elements of the film!

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: Hauptjäger]
#17194 - 26/07/04 06:45 AM

The snows of kilimanjaro'', with gregory peck and ava gardner ,the beginning of'' born free'' with viginia mckenna .Hatari ,brief shot of double .white hunter black heart ,clint eastwood .

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: kos]
#17199 - 26/07/04 08:28 AM

"Harry Black and the Tiger", with Stewart Granger, Barbara Rush and Anthony Steele. Some classic Tiger hunting mixed with the usual love interest.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: NitroX]
#17201 - 26/07/04 10:42 AM

"Sportsmans Paradise"
Highly praised and sought after rare film shot in The Northern Territory and produced by a local Aussie hero PH who sometimes posts here!
Plenty of doubles and heaps of edge of your seat chest pounding death defying action!
It has been rumoured that signed copies of this spectacular film have brought 6 figure sums at auction!

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: 4seventy]
#17206 - 26/07/04 12:59 PM

But does the hero wear a broad brimmed hat with a leopard fur hat band?

If not, he's a bit suss .........

PS Don't forget to post me one of those even if I have to pay

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: Hauptjäger]
#17221 - 26/07/04 05:14 PM

In reply to:

Oh yea, one other I just thought of there are two classic under leaver doubles in “Lock stock and two smoking barrels” I don’t remember if they say what they are, but they are one of the key elements of the film!

These were antique Holland & Hollands weren't they?

A good movie which I would not have thought about.

Anyone chime in if the doubles can be identifed. I want to write an eMagazine article with the movies and the doubles identified.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: NitroX]
#17224 - 26/07/04 06:33 PM

In reply to:

But does the hero wear a broad brimmed hat with a leopard fur hat band?

Actually he usually wears a tattered old cap which has a band made from best quality platted beaver fur!

I will send you a couple of tapes (the 6 figure signed ones of course) before I head off into the blue for the rest of the year.
Lately I've been too busy playing with my "big stick".

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: 4seventy]
#17229 - 27/07/04 12:19 AM

I'll make sure you get some wine in return too one day not too long in the future.

AND you are going to tell us about these mysterious double before you disappear into the blue I hope.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: NitroX]
#17234 - 27/07/04 01:38 AM

Don't forget the ever bad sci-fi movies Tremors and Tremors II

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: NitroX]
#17246 - 27/07/04 05:49 AM

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AND you are going to tell us about these mysterious double before you disappear into the blue I hope.

Well I guess I could but maybe the story will be more interesting after I return, seeing as I'm taking it as my main back up gun.
We'll see.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: 4seventy]
#17399 - 29/07/04 04:58 PM

Anyone have any more? And can anyone identify them?

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: mcb]
#17416 - 30/07/04 01:45 AM

Ah yes, Burt Gummer and those great American classics.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: NitroX]
#17450 - 30/07/04 11:49 AM

Hi,

The one Pete Posthwaite has in the second
Jurassic Park" is a 577 or 600 nitro by Butch Sercey isn't it?

There's always that 1970s classic, "Shout at the Devil" with Roger Moore and Lee Marvin...

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: Chasseur]
#17451 - 30/07/04 12:26 PM

Another obscure movie is the old John Wayne movie where he is the big game hunter in Africa. Hired to get animals for a zoo… (the mane escapes me at this time) can anyone help?

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: Hauptjäger]
#17453 - 30/07/04 01:07 PM

Hatari.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: mickey]
#17456 - 30/07/04 03:56 PM

Who used a double rifle in Hatari? The Duke used a Winchester model 70 and "Kurt" and "Frenchy" also both used bolt actions. Red Buttons - Pockets? - He used a rocket. "Dallas" - she used a camera and some really tight pants, if I remember correctly.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: Levallois]
#17466 - 31/07/04 02:11 AM

I may be wrong I was just sure I remembered a double in the film... sorry

I stand corrected.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: Hauptjäger]
#17471 - 31/07/04 04:22 AM

there was a brief shot of a double when a ph ? or animal control officer ,has just shot a rogue elephant cow with a calf [which is where Dallas gets her elephant calf ]and he is going to shoot calf ,rescued by Dallas .

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: kos]
#17481 - 31/07/04 09:17 AM

Thank God I'm not crazy! well I may be, but at least I was not wrong...

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: NitroX]
#17719 - 09/08/04 07:39 AM

THE LAST SAFARI with Stewart Granger...uses a .577 Westley Richards in the movie. The gun was featured in a Guns and Ammo Annual a few years back. KING SOLOMONS MINES, also with Stewart Granger. Uses a 8 bore Rhodda ( I believe) and this gun was featured on the cover of American Rifleman several years ago. Check out the book WHITE HUNTERS by Herne. It has a whole section on "Hollywood" Africa. I believe he mentions in that book that the rhino shot during the filming of SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO was actually shot by the hunter hired to protect the film crew. It wasn't meant to be shot, but charged.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: congomike]
#17726 - 09/08/04 12:06 PM

There was series called ,[from memory ]''The king and mrs simpson '' .Where they went on a african safari, and mrs simpson shoots a giraffe with a double ,which throws her backward a few steps and the muzzle goes up in the air ,and the um ,er ,giraffe falls down .dont think the animal lovers would appreciate it ,as i have never seen this series since, that was about 25 years ago ?

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: NitroX]
#17728 - 09/08/04 04:58 PM

The ABC series "The Lost World" has a keen hunter with a double not sure of make but it dropped a couple of T-REX'S when his Martini-Henry and Webley pistol failed to, it looked like a .577 or bigger.

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Re: Double rifles in the movies [Re: RLI]
#18395 - 24/08/04 10:18 AM

Wasn't there a double shown in 'Legends of the Fall' when Pitt went a little nuts after WWI?

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