I always thought it was a DB.

 

Diamondback with Detective Special grips.

 

thanks blade man and dogface6

 

Here's a great resource for TV and movie guns, all cued up for the movie Bullitt: Bullitt - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

 

Here's a great resource for TV and movie guns, all cued up for the movie Bullitt: Bullitt - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games

Great link Tony and thanks for sharing this info with us.

 

Steve McQueen seems to have liked Colt revolvers.

Regards,
Charlie

 

50 push-ups and you must write "I will never mistake an H&R for a Colt 100 times.

 

I like the subtle reference to the Thomas Crown Affair.

 

Alcohol and guns ...

 

That doesn't look anything like a colt he is holding in that photo.

 

H&R 939

https://www.google.com/search?q=h&r...ch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=IqpJU_OjGae92wXuoIAw&ved=0CEEQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=955

 

H&R 939

https://www.google.com/search?q=h&r...ch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=IqpJU_OjGae92wXuoIAw&ved=0CEEQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=955

I was wondering when that would be noticed. I knew it was an H & R, but not which one.

 

Steve McQueen, from all reports, was a nutso, unbalanced, not real-nice-guy, Bad-A childhood, the whole nine-yards - completely opposite from his film image unfortunately. I bet he had MANY Colts (and NON-Colts) and back then Pythons must have been .10 cents - (plus Steve could well afford several thousand even at today's prices).

 

Sounds like my kind of guy. No wonder I like him so much. LOL!

 

One of the gun magazine did an interview with him years ago - well before his death.

He did like guns, and was both a shooter as well as a hunter.

I'd kinda doubt his being unbalanced - though he did have a 'free-form' childhood.

His service with the Marines settled him down, making him more responsible - but never curing his rebelliousness.

He earned the title of 'King of Cool' - no one's been able to claim it since.

 

I didn't mean "unbalanced" as in mentally ill, but he was not "straightened out" - just read up on him.

 

I'll kick his ass. While Chuck Noris serves me a beer in a skirt.

 

And how about Mike Tyson? He gave me lip one time, had to slap him around a little - cool him down. He got real weepy and fawning afterwards - I said "for godsake MAN-UP!"

Just can't respect the guy now...

 

Shame on him for not carrying a colt and posing on a colt forum. I think he is trying to pick a fight with someone on this sight. I guess he does have bad ways.

 

When he was photographed - there wasn't a 'Colt Forum' or a 'Colt Collector's Association'...

 

Oh, I thought he just took that photo. I knew that just being a wise ass.

 

In his last movie "The Hunter" he was a 1911 guy . He collected all kinds of cool stuff, but after he had his fun out of it, he would sell it and go off on his next kick. He didn`t put anything under glass. He drove those Porshes and rode those motorcycles. Carol Shelby hated to see one of his cobras in a museum

 

McQueen used a 1911 in the Getaway also.

 

The revolver McQueen used in Bullit was a 2 1/2" bbl Diamondback. In the TV series "The FBI" the character "Inspector Lewis Erskine" (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) also carried a snub Diamondback. So did a friend of mine who carried it to make bank deposits, until it was stolen. My buddy would cry if he knew how much it is worth today.

 

I love that movie! Especially the shootout in the hotel, 1911's, Pythons, pump shotguns, OBOY!

 

From what I read, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. carried a S&W 'Terrier'.

He was a diminutive sort, and the little .32 made him look like he carried a 'Chief's Special'.

 

Trust me. It was a Diamondback. I watched the show, didn't read about it.

 

thanks pony up

 

In my opinion....the coolest gun McQueen ever used in a movie was the 1876 Winchester in Tom Horn.

Dan

 

Here is Steve McQueen in "The Getaway". I have it on good authority that this weapon is definitely not an H+R.

Regards,
Charlie

 

The GetawaySteve McQueenSlim Pickens (what a name)Thompson sub guns1911Winchester Pump (the bag was too neat)And last but certainly not least, Ali McGraw.......

 

SGT BULLIT'S DIAMONDBACK / GRIP on DS

The diamondback with the grips on the Detective Special

 

Frank Bullitt at the end when he's gotten his man.