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Post by puffy on Dec 4, 2020 22:18:05 GMT -5
I just read that the gun that Sean Connery used in the movie Dr. No has sold at auction for $256.000..They didn't say if it actually works.
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Post by jay on Dec 4, 2020 22:20:50 GMT -5
😳😳😳 and I thought ammo was expensive .
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Post by Plainsman on Dec 4, 2020 23:04:07 GMT -5
Sounds a bit iffy to me. Usually guns used in films are represented on set by several that look alike. So which one was this? (It would be a Walther I imagine. Possibly a PPK/s in .32AUTO. Didn’t he also use a Beretta tip-up in some films? Same gun the Mossad used to use.)
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Post by Gandalf on Dec 4, 2020 23:16:34 GMT -5
Sounds a bit iffy to me. Usually guns used in films are represented on set by several that look alike. So which one was this? (It would be a Walther I imagine. Possibly a PPK/s in .32AUTO. Didn’t he also use a Beretta tip-up in some films? Same gun the Mossad used to use.) According to James Bond Wiki: "The Beretta 418 was an Italian handgun and was, effectively, James Bond's first firearm. Although it was Bond's weapon of choice in the early Fleming novels, it was replaced in Dr. No by the Walther PPK. The reason for this change is found in the previous book, From Russia, With Love where the silencer of Bond's Beretta gets caught in the waistband of his trousers which prevented him from drawing his gun. Taking several months to recover from injuries sustained at the end of the earlier book, Bond has his new weapon forced upon him. In Dr. No (1962), Bond begins with a Beretta M1934, however, just as in the novel, it is promptly replaced by the PPK for similar reasons." James Bond's original PPK was 7.65mm - a common round at that time. |
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Post by Gandalf on Dec 4, 2020 23:36:22 GMT -5
I watched a television show last week where they talked about the weapons used by James Bond in the books and movies - and fired several of them.
They ended up the show by going to a business in the UK that provided the props for the Bond movies - and is selling them.
The showed fake guns and real guns - sometimes modified slightly to fire blanks - used in the Bond movies.
It sounded like there were usually 2 each of the real guns used in a movie.
The prices they were getting were unbeleivable.
A "cell phone" like prop used to remotely drive Bonds car in 1 movie went for $20,000 - and it was just non-functioning prop!
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Post by taiguy66 on Dec 5, 2020 6:37:06 GMT -5
Sounds a bit iffy to me. Usually guns used in films are represented on set by several that look alike. So which one was this? (It would be a Walther I imagine. Possibly a PPK/s in .32AUTO. Didn’t he also use a Beretta tip-up in some films? Same gun the Mossad used to use.) According to James Bond Wiki: "The Beretta 418 was an Italian handgun and was, effectively, James Bond's first firearm. Although it was Bond's weapon of choice in the early Fleming novels, it was replaced in Dr. No by the Walther PPK. The reason for this change is found in the previous book, From Russia, With Love where the silencer of Bond's Beretta gets caught in the waistband of his trousers which prevented him from drawing his gun. Taking several months to recover from injuries sustained at the end of the earlier book, Bond has his new weapon forced upon him. In Dr. No (1962), Bond begins with a Beretta M1934, however, just as in the novel, it is promptly replaced by the PPK for similar reasons." James Bond's original PPK was 7.65mm - a common round at that time. I see you’ve read the books too! Funny thing about Fleming, he’s a master when it comes to describing specific events in detail but didn’t care for him as a story teller. |
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Post by taiguy66 on Dec 5, 2020 6:39:17 GMT -5
Gandalf I stand corrected, you did a Wiki search.😁
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Post by Gandalf on Dec 5, 2020 11:20:57 GMT -5
Gandalf I stand corrected, you did a Wiki search.😁 I have the books. Just haven't gotten around to reading them yet. |
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Post by toshtego on Dec 5, 2020 11:29:42 GMT -5
I read the Ian Fleming novels in the mid 1960s as a teenager. Good stuff. I liked Matt Helm better. He carried a S&W Model 36 with the hammer spur cut off.
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Post by taiguy66 on Dec 5, 2020 18:21:04 GMT -5
Gandalf I stand corrected, you did a Wiki search.😁 I have the books. Just haven't gotten around to reading them yet. Somehow I knew you would. You are indeed a voracious reader! Cheers buddy.....👍😁 |
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Post by Gandalf on Dec 5, 2020 19:05:50 GMT -5
I have the books. Just haven't gotten around to reading them yet. Somehow I knew you would. You are indeed a voracious reader! Cheers buddy.....👍😁 I used to be a voracious reader. I've slowed down a bit. I started reading in 1978 and basically have been a "serial reader" since then - meaning as soon as I've finished 1 book I start another immediately. So it's been non-stop since then. No break. I am always reading something. When "palm pilots" first came out, I learned I could download books and read them on it. But there wasn't much available at first except very old books like John Carter's "Mars" series, Jules Vern, the original "Tarzan" series, The Land That Time Forgot, .... Found some great old stuff. Then "Palm Pilots" gave way to better "pocket computers" and websites popped up offering eBooks. It wasn't until relatively recently that smart phones were as powerful as the "pocket computers" I owned. So, I gave them up and now read all my books on my android phone. I have a pretty large collection of eBooks in my library yet to read. |
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Post by taiguy66 on Dec 5, 2020 19:42:39 GMT -5
Somehow I knew you would. You are indeed a voracious reader! Cheers buddy.....👍😁 I used to be a voracious reader. I've slowed down a bit. I started reading in 1978 and basically have been a "serial reader" since then - meaning as soon as I've finished 1 book I start another immediately. So it's been non-stop since then. No break. I am always reading something. When "palm pilots" first came out, I learned I could download books and read them on it. But there wasn't much available at first except very old books like John Carter's "Mars" series, Jules Vern, the original "Tarzan" series, The Land That Time Forgot, .... Found some great old stuff. Then "Palm Pilots" gave way to better "pocket computers" and websites popped up offering eBooks. It wasn't until relatively recently that smart phones were as powerful as the "pocket computers" I owned. So, I gave them up and now read all my books on my android phone. I have a pretty large collection of eBooks in my library yet to read. That’s awesome brother! Good for you going with pocket computers as it’s something I can’t do. Give me a book anytime. Guess I’m just old school. 😁👍 |
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