Traditional folders in Film and TV

silenthunterstudios said:
Carl, those big butcher knives didn't resemble the Hudson Bay camp knife, did they? One of my favorite patterns...
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No, they seemed to be about 6 to 8 inches with a strait back, and the edge curving gradually up to the point. Kind of like the Old Hikory pattern. One guy used his to clean a big northern fish I'm not familiar with, maybe a pike, for breakfast. These guys were serious re-enactors and all their clothing and gear seemed to be like the re enactors in this country who do the civil war stuff. One got a fire going very quick with a tin flint and steel kit, the clothing seemed to be period correct with sashes and homespun mixed with buckskins and moccasins. Most ofmy attention was on the canoe aspects, being a canoeist I was fascinated by the cargo canoes used by the Hudson Bay company. When I was a kid, I wanted to run away to be a canoe voyager, so when I saw this listed in the TV guide, I was going to watch no matter what.
Carl.
 
The knife in Big Jake is not a slipjoint.
The guy with the mullett haircut and SAK is MacGyver.

My favorite is Jeremiah Johnson..."Can you skin Griz?"
 
"Nurse Betty" has some pretty nasty knife content (not at all traditional). But at the end of the flick, Morgan Freeman's character uses what looks to be an Old Timer to cut his hostage loose. You can find the scene at YouTube by searching for "Nurse Betty Part 10."

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-- Mark
 
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I've seen a coulpe of episodes of "The Rifleman" were Chuck Conners was using either a stockman or a cattleknife to my less the stellar middle aged eyes! The Rifleman and "Gunsmoke tied for favorite western TV shows! I've seen all kinds of folders in GS! Jr. Samples uses what looks to me like either a large TX Toothpick or a folding hunter to whittle with on Hee Haw.
 
eisman said:
The knife in Big Jake is not a slipjoint.
The guy with the mullett haircut and SAK is MacGyver.

My favorite is Jeremiah Johnson..."Can you skin Griz?"
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Wayne/McCandles knife looks like a switchblade with a bone or stag handle. The movie is set in the early 1900's. I remember one of the son's telling Wayne about the 1913 Bergmann, and Wayne exclaiming "It's only nineteen nine!" I thought that switchblades were available right around this time, however, McCandles was supposedly a multimillionaire cattle baron, and could probably afford whatever he wanted.
 
John Wayne carried a Hubertus stag-handled switchblade in "Big Jake." You can see it in action in the scene where he saves the Scottish shepherd, and at a couple of other places in the movie. Sam Elliot uses a Barlow folder to whittle in "The Quick and the Dead." (NOT the weird pseudo-western with Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone!)

Ron
 
Edmund O'Brien (Sykes) and Ernest Borgnine (Dutch) each use jacknives in the movie, The Wild Bunch.

Remember the line, "Cut the fuse, please, cut the fuse!"
 
My son has a movie here called Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995). In the beginning of the film, the kid picks up what appears to be a Remington R4, on a shelf in a boat shop. Later the kid uses it (after a boat wreck) while he's trying to find his way back to civilization.

~Chris
 
This is a timely thread. I was flipping through the channels tonight, and there was an old Sam Elliott movie on, The Ranger, the Cook, and The Hole In The Sky. It was a film adaptation from a book by the same guy who did A river Runs Through it. Elliott plays a U.S. Forest ranger in 1919, and two different traditional pocket knives are seen. A two blade jack being sharpened on a stone in the begging, and later Elliot is sitting by a phone worried about a young park ranger up on the fire watch in a storm. Sam is tapping the butt of the knife on the table in a nervous way, and you get a good shot of a large, maybe 4 1/2 inch knife, with some very very old mellow looking stag scales. Classic looking old knife.

I can only wonder if Tom Sellech carries a traditional, what Sam Elliott carrys? Has to be something with a lot of old time class.

Carl.
 
I haven't seen it in a while, but I remember Legends of the Fall having a shot in which Brad Pitt is sharpening his Bowie next to his son, who is sharpening some sort of folder.
 
Just watched the movie Hugo the other day, and there's a part when the main character is forced to empty his pockets and he places a Barlow knife on the counter. I couldn't make out the brand or anything but it was definitely a Barlow. Good movie too!
 
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