Man, now that he mentions it, I remember Jimmy Stewart in Destry Rides Again doing exactly that. In the scene where he finally reveals himself to be a crack shot, he pumps his six-shooters and shoots with no prayer of a sight picture. Yet, of course, he can shoot the wing off a gnat at 15 yards.LarryH wrote:I believe it was mostly the sidekicks, such as Pat Brady or Gabbie Hayes or Jingles P Jones, who did that.thankGod wrote:Hey, what about all those grade b (or worse) westerns from the 30's, 40's and 50's when the ole cowboys on horseback would though the bullets out the barrel by rapid extension of the forearm from a position next to their head.
I dunno. These were supposed to be SAO revolvers, so maybe the dramatic license was demonstrating a fast hammer-cock and fire. If I were a 50's director and wanted to take dramatic license, I'd much prefer the hammer "fan" technique.
Earlier, I mentioned the movie Shoot 'Em Up, with Clive Owen, as a supreme recent example of getting almost everything wrong. Anybody else see this bizarre flick (definitely rated "R")? Everything is in there from excoriation by carrot to launching into the air from a shotgun blast to the amazingly ridiculous fireplace round-cook-off that's actually a set-piece (a pivotal plot point). I would never rent it again for entertainment, but I'm tempted to have some friends over for barbeque and a competition to see who can find the most physical and procedural gun-related inaccuracies in this film.
