Knives in Movies/TV Shows

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Okay, that's going back a ways...

As mentioned, N.C.I.S. currently seems to have the lead. There's are knives appearing in at least a third of the episodes, and even Gibb's famous Rule Number 9, "Never go anywhere without a knife". Long thread on the knives in the series somewhere. NCIS features knives the way that CSI featured flashlights. ZT, lately.

Knives and swords on TV have always suffered from the censors... you can have a guy carrying a samurai sword through 50 episodes, but you KNOW you're never going to see the blade actually cut anyone, so after a while it just gets silly (the only exception I can think of is "The Highlander", which managed to portray it without showing it). Even movies don't seem to have the stomach to show a "good guy" using a blade as a weapon, maybe because they've used exactly that for so many decades to establish the "bad guy" that the audiences are programmed that way... which goes a long way toward explaining a lot of our laws.
 
i could be mistaken but i think i saw a spyderco on the walking dead two weeks ago, clipped to the pocket of the wife of the police officer. also, many bear grylls machetes.
 
2001's "Spartan" with Val Kilmer is a tacticool guy's wet dream: the heavy-duty auto featured below by Severtech -

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And also the go bag he used was based on Eric Haney's (ex-Delta Military advisor) own bag. It's a sniper's delight bag with its own mat for shooting in prone.
 
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I sat down and watched all of season 1 of the walking dead yesterday. Lots of knives in that show. I think I saw a Buck, Gerber PArang machete and a Gerber machete pro or something like that. Never could quite see what the big fixed blade that the guy that carried the crossbow was wearing. Looked like a Busse to me but never got a clear shot of it.
 
Does anyone know what knife Ving Rhames used at the end of "The Tournament"? The logo on the blade looks like a REKAT. - round eye knife and tool. They are or were operating out of Idaho, I think.
 
Going to show my age but does anyone know who made the Bowie knife James Arness carried in the series How The West Was Won.He played Zeb MaCahan. I grew up loving knives especially with a grandfather that had used them sucessfully in hand to hand combat in WWII.He use to tell me stories of when he was in the Island hoping campagne.When I started reading I read all I could find on WWII and started asking my grandpa about it.My intrest was the only reason he talked about it. My grandma said I was the only person my grandpa ever talked about it with. He had a purple heart from one of his hand to hand fights.I have always had a knife on me because that is what boys did when I grew up.We used them for everything and no one evr thought of hurting someone with one.
 
I'm purty sure thats a busse daryl carries in episode 2 (season 2) of the walking dead... not positive, but purty sure.
 
NCIS does show a lot of nice knives as already mentioned. I was watching the marathon the other day and Gibbs used an auto and Abby used an auto, but it showed them so fast i couldnt really tell what they were.

In the first Bad Boys a guy uses a custom Spyderco Civilian

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jackknife said:
Wow! And I thought I was the only one ancient enough to remember that show! Robert Loggia did a good job.

Carl.
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Nah, a lot of us feisty old geezers left around... there's just some incentive for us to keep our heads down these days.

Actually, if I remember correctly (and I may not, it HAS been a while), Thomas Hewitt Edward had a habit of throwing what looked like F-S daggers, which was a pretty bad idea, what with the thinner-than-pencil round tang with stress risers.. but the series was before its time.

Looks like we've got more than that and years in common- you're all of about 12 miles away, and I've been a HUGE Donald Hamilton fan since the '70s. Read/own the entire MH series, and treasure my lone surviving copy of The Mona Intercept... and yeah, we're thinking of bailing out of this area too (a lot of that going around), although right now the Texas gulf coast looks more likely than Fla.
 
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