Question for the lever action experts - Paul Newman's rifle in Hombre?

[cash_tx]

Question for you lever action experts: What type of rifle is this that Paul Newman is using in the movie "Hombre"?

 

[Joker12]

Question for you lever action experts: What type of rifle is this that Paul Newman is using in the movie "Hombre"?

It looks like a Winchester 1873 half magazine rifle.

 

[cash_tx]

It looks like a Winchester 1873 half magazine rifle.

Thank you, and that is certainly what it appears to be. Much appreciated.

 

[cwpayton]

that was a goood movie thanks for bringing it back to my memory; looks original with the deep shoulder curve in the butt,

 

[Hombre]

One of my favorite movies! Must confess, that's where I got my name. LOL

 

[BourbonTrail]

From a quick internet sleuthing:

It’s a modified 1873 in .44-40 per Peter Sherayko's book,"Tombstone, Guns and Gear”. Also, it happens to have been used in the movie Tombstone according to the book.

 

[Altitude sickness]

A lot of brutal honesty in that movie. Not the more typical Hollywood western.

I love corny not so honest westerns too though.

 

[HankBuck]

A lot of brutal honesty in that movie. Not the more typical Hollywood western.

I love corny not so honest westerns too though.

Altitude: If John Wayne, Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, or Jimmy Stewart is in it - I LIKE IT !! Old Westerns are outstanding: Real “stunts” by men who could really ride a horse (some outstanding horsemanship), real cattle (1000s of them), a single “plot line” that anyone could follow, No nudity (too bad on that), …. I wish I could buy some of the real guns that were used in those movies - some were later sold as movie memorabilia “collectibles”

 

[Altitude sickness]

If I was getting paid for all the hours of westerns. And John Wayne movies I have watched.

I could have afforded the eye patch John Wayne wore as Roster Cogburn. I was bidding on it until it got out of hand. I do have a John Wayne belt buckle though.

 

[HankBuck]

If I was getting paid for all the hours of westerns. And John Wayne movies I have watched.

I could have afforded the eye patch John Wayne wore as Roster Cogburn. I was bidding on it until it got out of hand. I do have a John Wayne belt buckle though.

Altitude: You have John Wayne’s “Belt Buckle”!! From what movie? I think that’s Great, he was my “hero” growing up and my Uncle’s also. What did you pay for his Belt Buckle? I think that’s better than the Eye Patch —- you could wear his belt buckle. I believe one of his SA Revolvers was sold (orange tinted handles and worn in several movies including War Wagon + El Dorado)

 

[Altitude sickness]

Red River D Belt Buckle - The History

Red River is a 1948 Western film which tells the story of the first cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail in the fictional framework of a cattle man who feuds with his surrogate son over ownership of their cattle in the middle of a drive

www.redriverdbeltbuckle.com

I do wear it. Hank it’s a replica. Not the real JW buckle

 

[HankBuck]

Red River D Belt Buckle - The History

Red River is a 1948 Western film which tells the story of the first cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail in the fictional framework of a cattle man who feuds with his surrogate son over ownership of their cattle in the middle of a drive

www.redriverdbeltbuckle.com

I do wear it. Hank it’s a replica. Not the real JW buckle

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Nice - one of his Best Movies, I read that he didn’t like Montgomery Clift, referred to him as “arrogant” and thought the final fight scene between the two would be “unbelievable“ because Clift was such a small skinny little guy.

 

[flying sailor]

If I was getting paid for all the hours of westerns. And John Wayne movies I have watched.

I could have afforded the eye patch John Wayne wore as Roster Cogburn. I was bidding on it until it got out of hand. I do have a John Wayne belt buckle though.

What did the eye patch go for?

 

[Altitude sickness]

I think it went for $48k



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[HankBuck]

I think it went for $48k



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WOW - $48,000? Was his eyeball in it?

 

[cash_tx]

From a quick internet sleuthing:

It’s a modified 1873 in .44-40 per Peter Sherayko's book,"Tombstone, Guns and Gear”. Also, it happens to have been used in the movie Tombstone according to the book.

Reminds me of the Colt Walker pistol that was used in both the original True Grit and The Outlaw Josey Wales.

 

[Ravensview]

Haven’t seen that movie in awhile, but I thought the calibre was mentioned in it, I see info that says it was a model 1873 in 44-40, but I thought that the calibre mentioned in the movie was larger. I had initially thought of an 1876 because of the calibre that I thought that it was, now I have another movie to rewatch on my list. Thanks for the post

 

[Tundra Tiger]

A lot of brutal honesty in that movie. Not the more typical Hollywood western.

I love corny not so honest westerns too though.

Examples that can e to my mind immediately: James Garner's two "Support Your Local" movies.

"I've never made any secret of the fact that basically I'm on my way to Australia."

 

[Altitude sickness]

I met the Dukes double once. And he was quite the character himself

 

[Tokoloshe Safaris]

I have a pair of Crockett spurs that belonged to John Wayne they came to me by way of Michael Wayne.

I also have the spurs that Leo Carillo (Pancho in Cisco Kid) always wore he was a real horseman.

Lon