Watching Gunsmoke - Don't Ask Why
Sitting here visiting a pal in Ft Lauderdale drinking beer and we got to talking about the weight of the old Colt 45 revolvers. Any thoughts guys to settle this?
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Think I've mentioned this before.......
Dennis Weaver put on a good act on Gunsmoke.........since he previously, in real life, almost made the U.S. Olympic Team.........as a decathlete.
As far as Hollywood fast draws are concerned........
Glenn Ford was known to be fast........but.......John Doucette(The Sons of Katie Elder.......the axe handle scene) was thought to be the fastest.
Love the old westerns......have the entire The Virginian dvd set.
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Another fast draw actor was Sammy Davis Jr. I think some of his guns were on GB.
Wikipedia: Davis was an enthusiastic shooter and gun owner. He participated in fast-draw competitions. Johnny Cash recalled that Davis was said to be capable of drawing and firing a Colt Single Action Army revolver in less than a quarter of a second.[69] Davis was skilled at fast and fancy gunspinning and appeared on television variety shows showing off this skill. He also demonstrated gunspinning to Mark on The Rifleman in "Two Ounces of Tin". He appeared in western films and as a guest star on several television westerns.
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Yep.......as a 12 year old kid I would always recall this episode where Sammy would throw a knife into a bullet hole.......only drawing AFTER throwing the knife.
It took over 50 years........for me to watch the same episode for a second time.
Seems like it first happened yesterday.
Sammy was in a second episode later that year.
The METV channel now shows all The Rifleman episodes. Heck.....I think I've watched the entire series 6 or 8 times now.
Sadly......Johnny Crawford passed a few years ago. Alzheimers.....with pneumonia and china virus piling on.
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Johnny Crawford was also in at least one Gunsmoke episode. So was a very young Barbara Eden. No mistaking either face.
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Pluto channel 263 is running "The Rifleman" 24/7 right now.
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