Curtis L. Russell wrote:
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> And it wasn't all that big a rifle, especially for TV. Tom Selleck had
> a big-ass rifle in that movie where he traveled half way around the
> world to shoot Australians from England, or something like that.
We've gone through gun inflation. Connors didn't need a big gun like
Selleck because Connors could do the twirly thing while firing. Selleck
would have shot himself in the ear doing that. Think back, Jack Webb and
Harry Morgan fought all those crooks and caught all those bad guys with
snub-nosed 5-shot .38s. Broderick Crawford never even pulled his gun in
Highway Patrol, that I can remember anyway, but then I only vaguely
remember the series and the only scene I do remember was of Crawford
leaning in the car window talking on the radio, he didn't have his gun out
for that. Armed only with a scuba knife, Lloyd Bridges sank entire foreign
naval squadrons, *after* a large grappling-hook thing dragged along the
bottom had taken his air tank. The point is, back then, men didn't need
big-ass guns, they had panache. You might want to look up the meaning of
panache, but use an english dictionary since there is no word in french for
panache.
--
Bill Asher
