Can we have a "good" guns-in-movies side-thread?
'Raiders of the lost Ark' has several of my favorite gun moments. The scene where he is packing his suitcase and says something like "don't worry, I'm always careful"
and then you see a beautiful old, well-used, S&W 1917 hand-ejector, tossed into the case. I've been in love with those old Smiths ever since.
And---later in the film---when (he's in Egypt now) the crowd suddenly parts and he is confronted with the giant swordsman with the menacing laugh---- he wearily pulls out his pistol and drops the guy in his tracks. I remember the film had JUST come out only a day or two before when I went to see it the first time, and neither I or anyone knew anything about this new movie---or about this scene---(and here, at least, there is no Hollywood miracle shooting---its only about a 10 yard shot)---so the whole theater just exploded in uproarious laughter....
A quintessential American moment (that scene) and, solution to a middle-eastern problems---heh.
(there is some gun-changing in this movie too from what I read.)
JB---who actually has lots of M.E. friends...