What's your favorite movie knife

Wenger? That is more of a multitool, rather than a plain knife and it was famous way before the TV show. The Rambo and dundee became famous because of the films.
 
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calm said:
Wenger? That is more of a multitool, rather than a plain knife and it was famous way before the TV show. The Rambo and dundee became famous because of the films.
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Yeah, but McGuyver turned that all up to 11.

Back when I was actually working in an office, for the better part of 40 years I carried a SAK Spartan every day. It was almost famous at one place in particular, and folks often asked if they could borrow my McGuyver.
 
In the mid 90s I carried a Wenger SA, with a serrated blade, not sure of the model. Used it for two years at work.
 
not2sharp said:
Iron Mistress is a 1952 film telling a highly fictionalized account of the Jim Bowie myth. It is also the name applied to the knife in the movie which helped launch the current knife industry.


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Not so sure the Iron Mistress in the movie was the knife .... or "Judalon de Bornay" 😅
 
RPZIP said:
Not so sure the Iron Mistress in the movie was the knife .... or "Judalon de Bornay" 😅
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I remember seeing this movie as a kid. I do not remember any of the love story, I do remember the end where he throws the bowie into the river, and wondering if we could ever find the river and knife? John
 
John A. Larsen said:
I remember seeing this movie as a kid. I do not remember any of the love story, I do remember the end where he throws the bowie into the river, and wondering if we could ever find the river and knife? John
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Sure I've seen it as well, just can't remember when - probably during the early 1970s.
 
There was the knife carried by Richard Widmark as James Bowie in the 1960 movie The Alamo. Don't know who the maker was - subject of further research. It is published in the web that John Wayne acquired the knife and gifted it to someone later on. Photo credit: The Alamo Org.....

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Jayne Cobbs bowie knife Binky from Serenity and Firefly
Its a Patrick Henry Rough Rider
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I suspected they used a prop knife in the film(s), but in Lonesome Dove Captain Augustus McCrae carries and uses what appears to be a Russell Green River butcher/skinning knife. It would have been something readily available to pretty much everyone in the time and region, so I choose to believe that's what was used (ar at least depicted).

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Tough day for the horse, though.
 
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