Harmonica Gun in a movie

[Pigman]

I seem to recal a movie starting Yul Brenner where he used a harmonica gun. Has anyone ever seen it or any other use of a harmonica gun in a movie?

Foster From Flint

 

[sequoia]

It wasn't really in a movie but at the John Browning museum in Ogden UT. there is a movie about the life of JB in which Fess Parker fires a harmonica gun made by Brownings father. The gun is on display at the museum, along with a lot of other cool stuff.

 

[poordevil]

OK. Let me see if I can say this without getting too confusing. Remember the movie, back in 1967 or so, about Civil War types lifted away in a Ballown and landing on an island with giant crabs and birds and Cpt. Nemo, and such?

Then, in the 1980's sometime, a remake of the movie, for TV, still about the civil war types and giant critters and Cpt. Nemo......Cpt. Nemo left, secritly some Harmonica Rifles for the castaways.

Upon finding them, a discussion and demistration fallowed. I thought it was well done.

P

 

[zimmerstutzen]

I actually got to handle a harmonica gun at a show in fairfax VA gun show. It was a large bore, maybe 60 caliber and smoothbore. It had a box lock type hammer. The "block" racheted to the side by operating a lever on the underside. When the "block" was all the way to one side, it "leaned" or canted that direction from all the weight. A machinist I once knew, made a verticle gatling type gun that used a solid metal bar, having about 10 chambers. the bar fit in the top and when he turned the crank, the gear against the bar cause it to descend into the machine and the striker went back and forth, springing forward just in time to strike the nipple for each chamber. His was only about 38 caliber. and had no barrel in front.

 

[jbg]

Mysterious Island, based on the book of the same name by Jules Verne. I wrote a book report on it in junior high school, or perhaps I should say I wrote a book report on the Classics Illustrated version. :grin:

 

[poordevil]

Thats it!! :hatsoff: :bow: . Good memory

 

[Lostrifle]

I seem to recal a movie starting Yul Brenner where he used a harmonica gun. Has anyone ever seen it or any other use of a harmonica gun in a movie?

Foster From Flint

The name of the movie was "Adios, Sabata!", a spaghetti western. Yul was packing a cut-down lever-action long gun(sort of like the one Steve McQueen used in "Wanted: Dead or Alive"), and for rapid fire he used the harmonica-type magazine. First thing he did, though, was pull a short cigarro out of one of the chambers.

 

[Pigman]

Thats it! I knew I wasnt crazy!

There is even a picture of the harmonica gun here:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2594804480/tt0066745

As a kid I was impressed by it. Did it ever show him reloading in the movie?

Thanks,

Foster From Flint

 

[wulf]

MAN! You guys amaze me. Wulf