What's your favorite movie knife

Needs a Wash clone or I will remain sad.
 
David Mary said:
They would both be alive then.
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My wife and I were talking about that last night. With the timeline info A Arathol provided, and to accommodate for the passing of Ron Glass, perhaps the Shepherd Book character is on sabbatical or some other side quest in another part of the universe.
 
Oh he meant the actor. I didn't know about that. 😢
 
abcdef said:
Ursula Undress from Dr. NO. Knife appears at around 25 seconds.

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She may have appeared at that moment but she had my eyes for the rest of the movie. I think Halley Berry did a tribute to that scene, I think she wears a white belt carrying a knife.
 
Some in my collection:
Scalpel from Blade Runner 2049 by Amsler Tools
Kershaw Amphibian from Mission Impoosible 2
Spyderco Cricket from Mission Impossible 3
SOG Pentagon from Mission Impossible 6
Gil Hibben Double Shadow Dagger from Time Cop, The Fifth Element, Star Trek Nemesis, and others.
Cold Steel Counter Tac 1 from John Wick 2
Tekna dive knife from Bad Boys
Cold Steel Black Sable from Prom Night
Cold Steel "Terminator" push dagger from Total Recall
Cold Steel Urban Skinner from Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Cold Steel Espada from The Expendables
 
In the 1984 production of Dune, the Atreides people appear to use Fairbairn Sykes commando knives. It is shockingly difficult to find a clear image of them, given how frequently they appear in the film, but this one is fantastic.

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I would like to think that the armouror had acquired a shipment of surplus knives before the market was flooded with cheap knockoffs, so the actors could have been using genuine, war era FS daggers. It's certainly possible, and weirder things have happened in the film industry.
 
I've gotta say the Lile knives from the first two Rambo movies are my favorites. For swords, it's definitely the Sword of Crom and the Atlantean sword from the first Conan movie. My having been a teen in the 1980's is showing!

I didn't see it mentioned, but a red Microtech Halo is used by Stallone in his movie, "Bullet to the Head." Jason Momoa also uses a hawk-bladed OTF auto in the movie.

 
I've been wracking my brain on this topic (favorite movie knives), but I don't think I have any. So I'll post some "honorable mentions".

In the "Road Warrior" Max carried a Gerber Mark 2 in his boot.

"The Road Warrior" was a favorite of mine in my late teens, and I guess I could say that it was a heavy influence on me. I had a motorcycle, a black leather motorcycle jacket, engineers boots, and I carried a bunch of stuff attached to my jacket in sheaths and pouches (Buck 110, Mini Mag flashlight, pliers, multitool, etc). I looked like a character from the movie.

At the time I also had a pair of Parker Brothers Gerber Mark 2 copies. There was no way I could have afforded a real Gerber, I couldn't even afford the Parkers. But I had been growing pot in the back yard of my house, and I had a friend who went to gun shows with his dad and bought knives. He had the Parkers, he loved pot, but had no connections, so we would trade pot for knives (really good pot too, pardon the boast).

I regarded those Parker knives as my "Road Warrior" knives.

I don't have those knives anymore. I think I sold one, and the other was stolen. To paraphrase the end of the movie- "They live now, only in my memories".

Here's a screen shot from the movie.

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Another "honorable mention" goes to the out-the-front auto-spike in 1981's "Eye of the Needle". Not a "knife", but a stabbing weapon, close enough.

Watching the movie I was really intrigued by this item. An intrigue that lasted for many years. It fueled my fascination with automatic stabbing weapons, something that started in my childhood and continues to this day. And I liked how it was almost a character unto itself in the movie.

There has been much discussion and debate about the item among switchblade enthusiasts (among which I am one) about whether it was a real weapon, did they ever really exist back in the 1940's (WW2 movie), and who might have made them, but I firmly believe the item in the movie was a non-lethal prop, and despite a lot of searching I've never found a shred of actual evidence to indicate that such items really existed, much less who would have made them. Although there are schematics for a similar item to be found online, those are just fan/fantasy conceptions.

Screen shots from the movie.

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And lastly (for this post anyways), a few screen shots from 1991's "A High Art", aka "A Grande Arte", "Exposure", "The Knife", etc. Among other things, it was the first time I ever saw a knife (fixed-blade) carried in an underarm shoulder holster (three different characters), which was also very influential for me.

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My own shoulder holster (made it myself). Inspired by the movie, and proven to be very practical (if not legal).

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oldmanwilly said:
In the 1984 production of Dune, the Atreides people appear to use Fairbairn Sykes commando knives. It is shockingly difficult to find a clear image of them, given how frequently they appear in the film, but this one is fantastic.

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I would like to think that the armouror had acquired a shipment of surplus knives before the market was flooded with cheap knockoffs, so the actors could have been using genuine, war era FS daggers. It's certainly possible, and weirder things have happened in the film industry.
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I would agree. Very likely since the FS daggers have been featured in movies going back to WW2 and no doubt many were accumulated by armorers, prop suppliers and renters etc.
 
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