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Thanks for the clarification
A knife is no match for M.Ventura - perhaps a knuckleduster would've been better...
OMG!!! A film within a film, cross referencing
I saw that movie once, maybe 50 years ago.
Got to be an anachronism...CASE Sodbusters were not about until the 1960s, I suppose the German wooden handled ones might have been in the 1830s but not a West Point...and it looks like a large brass pivot as found on US Sodbusters.I think it's Sodbuster but I'm not sure. The movie is The Pale Blue Eye. Action takes place at 1830 at West Point.
Well-spotted Alain, there's a US knifemaker called Robert Parrish, if he's still working
Nice work BarrettHere are a few from the Netflix series Wednesday. This first one is a little hard to see, as it’s a wide shot, quite dark, and the knife is only on screen for a second, but it looks like a traditional folder with a drop point blade. I might have said fixed blade, but if you zoom in I think you can just barely make out a nail nick.
The second is a traditional fixed blade. You get a decent look at this one, especially in the second shot, but I’m not sure if it’s something that is identifiable.
The last knife appears to be a slim, single blade, all-metal slipjoint with some raised designs on the handle. The third frame is probably the clearest look at it.
Love that movie!!
Me too, Jim, very under-rated movie, which includes old guy whittling on the Porch. Grandpa deserves an award for the complete and utter disdain for Crawl (Paula Shore). Also reminds me of the Norm McDonald joke,
Love that movie.
There are several front-porch-whittling scenes in the movie Son in Law. (I wouldn't really recommend the movie, although for some reason I've seen it several times!)
Hard to tell much about the knife being used in this first scene, but I don't think there's any doubt it's a traditional slipjoint. (You should be able to zoom in on any of these screenshots to get a little better look at the knives; there aren't any closeups in the movie.)
You get a better profile shot of the blade being used in this scene. Sort of looks like a sheepsfoot to me, but a bit oddly shaped. Any ideas? It also looks like there's at least one other blade folded up in that handle.
Not a great shot of the knife in this scene, either, but I'd say this one looks like a clip point.
Throughout the movie, Pauly Shore's character repeatedly asks this grandfather character if he can "whittle wood" with him. Grandpa eventually agrees, and pulls an extra knife from his pocket, while Pauly sits down with an entire log to whittle.
