traditional knives in movies

James Whitmore uses a big Barlow to carve his suicide note into an overhead beam in Shawshank Redemption.
 
Hell is For Heroes,world war 2 movie. Steve McQueen uses a butcher knife to probe for land mines. regards Henry
 
"Bite The Bullet". Gene Hackman uses what appears to be a barlow, to pull the bullet from a cartridge. A Vaquero carries a machete,uses it to whack the head off of a rattle snake. regards Henry
 
"The Lady Killers". 1955, I think, with Sir Alec Guinness. One of the characters, Louie, carries a switchblade. It appears in several scenes. If you watch carefully you will see that it has a Kris blade shape.
 
I just watched a movie currently in theaters called "the quiet ones". It's a horror/ suspense set in 1973. When main character pulled out a knife, I was surprised to see that it was actually period correct. It looked to be a sodbuster type, with jigged covers (though I'm not sure), and a distinct half stop.
 
In the 1995 movie Richard III, which relocated Shakespeare's play in the 1930s with Ian McEllen's Richard as a Mosley-like fascist, Sir James Tyrrell (Adrian Dunbar) cut the throat of George, Duke of Clarence (Nigel Hawthorne) with a British army clasp knife, pattern 6353/1905. Totally authentic!

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Piso Mojado said:
In the 1995 movie Richard III, which relocated Shakespeare's play in the 1930s with Ian McEllen's Richard as a Mosley-like fascist, Sir James Tyrrell (Adrian Dunbar) cut the throat of George, Duke of Clarence (Nigel Hawthorne) with a British army clasp knife, pattern 6353/1905. Totally authentic!
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I just saw Wes Andersons' "Grand Budapest Hotel" over the weekend, and Willem DeFoe (sp?) has that exact clasp knife. It's shown in a still life desktop scene with his edc pocket dump : )

~Jim
 
SonnyJim said:
I just saw Wes Andersons' "Grand Budapest Hotel" over the weekend, and Willem DeFoe (sp?) has that exact clasp knife. It's shown in a still life desktop scene with his edc pocket dump : )

~Jim
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Oh I meant to post about that after I saw that movie. Interesting little shot. Also a cool movie.
 
Catching Jaws this afternoon, and saw a nice counter top Camillus Knife Case in the hardware store when Chief Brody went into the hardware store to buy paint and sign materials.
 
Clark Gable uses a small slip joint frequently in "Ït Happened One Night". It could be a texas toothpick, that is what I remember it as being at least. He even uses it to peel carrots stolen from a farmers field, and to pick food from his female co-stars teeth!
 
Anybody know what traditional folder "Red" (Morgan Freeman) and Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore) used when they carved out in the halfway house wall, "...was here..." in the Shawshank Redemption?
 
In Tony Hillermans Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee novels, Lt Leaphorn has an ever present 110, which he uses in every story at least once. Leaphorn never makes any bones about it, just a tool. I don't recall what Chee carried. Robert Redford and PBS made 3 movies based on the Hillerman novels, starring Wes Studi and Adam Beach. For the life of me I can't recall what Studi carried for a knife.
 
Alnamvet68 said:
Anybody know what traditional folder "Red" (Morgan Freeman) and Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore) used when they carved out in the halfway house wall, "...was here..." in the Shawshank Redemption?
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I am pretty sure that Brooks used a Barlow. But I'm don't know what Red used.
 
In the unjustly obscure (IMO) noir thriller Red Rock West, Nicolas Cage gets out of a tight situation with the use of a SAK Classic. Anything more would be a spoiler.
 
In Wait Until Dark, the really creepy Alan Arkin character has a gravity knife with a girly statuette for a handle. Traditional in certain circles, I suppose.
 
In the made-for-tv movie The Dollmaker, Jane Fonda plays a Kentucky woman in 1940's Detroit who supports her family by carving wooden toys. IIRC she uses a bone-handled stockman or whittler. Probably the most sustained depiction in a movie of a knife being used for constructive purposes.
 
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Piso Mojado said:
In the 1995 movie Richard III, which relocated Shakespeare's play in the 1930s with Ian McEllen's Richard as a Mosley-like fascist, Sir James Tyrrell (Adrian Dunbar) cut the throat of George, Duke of Clarence (Nigel Hawthorne) with a British army clasp knife, pattern 6353/1905. Totally authentic!

WWII-31023.jpg
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SonnyJim said:
I just saw Wes Andersons' "Grand Budapest Hotel" over the weekend, and Willem DeFoe (sp?) has that exact clasp knife. It's shown in a still life desktop scene with his edc pocket dump : )

~Jim
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Wow, interesting, I'm going to have to look out for these :thumbup:
 
iSaur said:
In the made-for-tv movie The Dollmaker, Jane Fonda plays a Kentucky woman in 1940's Detroit who supports her family by carving wooden toys. IIRC she uses a bone-handled stockman or whittler. Probably the most sustained depiction in a movie of a knife being used for constructive purposes.
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She also, if I remember correctly, uses her pocket knife to perform an emergency tracheotomy on one of her children. Or am I thinking of a different movie?? :confused:
 
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