Traditional slipjoints in movies?

Carl, that's usually the case for me too. If I see the movie first, I can still enjoy the book, but not the other way around.
 
jackknife said:
Having read the book, then seeing the movie, I wish I hadn't wasted an hour and a half of my life.

Now I hate to see a movie if I've read the book.

Carl.
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That is why I've avoided it. As a Tom Clancy fan I watched several of the movies based on his books and was seriously let down. I don't want to spoil this book too.
 
Secondhand Lions

-There is a scene near the beginning of the movie, where everyone is sitting on the porch, and one of the kid's uncles is cutting a piece of fruit with what looks like a small slip-joint.

-There is also a fight scene, where a group of young men pull traditional looking switchblades on the kid's uncle.
 
In AMC's mini-series Broken Trail,Robert Duvall's character uses what looks like a 2 blade jack knife several times.
 
Stephen Hunter is amazing. As for movies that include traditional knives here are a few.

Big Jake - JW opens and throws a leverletto so the guy can cut down the sheep farmer.

El Dorado - James Caan's throwing knife is a Bowie of some sort if I remember correctly.

S.W.A.T. - The "bad guy" passed a Laguiole through customs and cut a throat with it about 3 hours later. (Not movie Time)

The Outsiders - Another leverletto IIRC

Outlaw Josey Wales - To correct the post above I am sure he was cutting a plug of tobacco

I am sure I can get a few more if I think about it.
 
The Black stallion - the boy receives a pearl-handled(?) slipjoint from his father on the ship and uses it to cut free the horse during the sinking on the ship.
 
Does anybody recall the knife James Coburn used for his showdown in the coral early in the movie The Magnificent 7. It was definitely a folder.
 
ptradeco said:
Does anybody recall the knife James Coburn used for his showdown in the coral early in the movie The Magnificent 7. It was definitely a folder.
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I thought of that one too but my memory of the scene is a little vague. I can't remember if he had it open before he threw it or if he had a switchblade and opened it as he threw it.

This is the best pic I could get from youtube:
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Definitely a switchblade. I distinctly remember James Coburn opening the knife while it was behind his back.

- Christian
 
I just thought of a scene in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, where the Duke, Harry Cary Jr. and I believe Ben Johnson (Trooper Tyre, great role) were spying on an injun camp, and the Duke wanted a 'chaw', and Mr. Pennel, ( Harry Cary Jr.) hands him a small jackknife of modest size for the Duke to cut off his chaw. I think it even had a white handle, may have been bone.

I'll have to go dig up a copy of that movie and watch it again. :D

Carl.
 
There's a scene in "Miller's Crossing" where John Turturro is using a slipjoint of some sort to eat an apple and he wipes it off with his handkerchief before closing it and putting both back in his pocket.
 
OK blokes, those are all good bloke films but....

My wife loves the movie version of Mama Mia so I've seen it enough to notice: There's a scene where Pierce Brosnan's character is whittling with a small penknife.

:D
 
I remember seeing a version "The Black Stallion" a while back (25 years or so, I believe) where the young kid defensively sticks a small slippie in a would-be kidnapper/horse-thief's leg. Anyone remember this scene?
 
Warriorsociologist said:
I remember seeing a version "The Black Stallion" a while back (25 years or so, I believe) where the young kid defensively sticks a small slippie in a would-be kidnapper/horse-thief's leg. Anyone remember this scene?
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perhaps this is the one:
littleknife said:
The Black stallion - the boy receives a pearl-handled(?) slipjoint from his father on the ship and uses it to cut free the horse during the sinking on the ship.
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???
 
I too loves hunters swagger books and I've seen the movie, I might have liked it but not after reading the book.

ptradeco said:
For you Stephen Hunter fans out there, of Bob Lee Swagger fame, Bob the Nailer carried a Case Stockman in the books. I have watched the Shooter a couple of times and have not detected a slipjoint. Anybody see what I have missed?
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swagger uses a tactical auto folder in the movie(in the back of the FBI car inside the car-wash to gain access to the first aid kit).
of course its a "Case XX" in the book.

Peter
 
Warriorsociologist said:
I remember seeing a version "The Black Stallion" a while back (25 years or so, I believe) where the young kid defensively sticks a small slippie in a would-be kidnapper/horse-thief's leg. Anyone remember this scene?
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Yes!! In fact as I recall the knife was shown in such detail that I could tell that it was a Camillus stockman 4" round bolsters with ivory grained composition handles.
 
In "Urban Cowboy", there is a scene where Travolta is confronting Scott Glenn's character, then backs down. Scott Glenn was holding a knife behind his back, and after folding it, drops it in his back-pocket. I watched it some years ago, and remember thinking "That wouldn't be a great knife for a fight!" I believe it was a non-locking slipjoint of some flavor. Anyone know it?
 
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