Movies that show the actor reloading his cap-n-ball revolver?

[ClemBert]

I seem to recall only one movie that showed, during a fight scene, a partial of the reload process but can't remember which one. Isn't it always so convenient that everyone's revolvers are loaded and ready to go. Many movie makers cheat by using cartridge converted revolvers so they can shoot blank cartridges and other movies use converted revolvers as is plausible for the time periord. Of course, in Pale Rider, Clint does complete 1858 converted cylinder exchange reloading but we never seem to see an actual cylinder reload in a movie.

 

[damoc]

Quigley shows a guy trying to reload a cap and ball.

I am pretty sure Gettysburg with martin sheen as well may not have been during actual fighting?

 

[Smokin'Joe]

"Mountains of the Moon" is a movie from 1990. It dramatizes English explorers searching for the source of the Nile in the late 1850s. They are armed with 1851 Colts and reload during a battle with hostile natives. It's a good film but hard to find. I bought a DVD on Ebay.

 

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I believe 'The Patriot' with Mel Gibson had plenty of footage of reloading.

 

[Smokin'Joe]

No revolvers in The Patriot, but it is a good film.

 

[rodwha]

No revolvers in The Patriot, but it is a good film.

Just watched that yesterday. Good movie indeed!

 

[<*(((><]

No revolvers in The Patriot, but it is a good film.

Sorry looked past revolver in your post.

 

[Sistema1927]

Gettysburg, for sure. At Little Round Top, Colonel Chamberlain is reloading between waves.

 

[Kevin Rohrer]

Gettysburg, for sure. At Little Round Top, Colonel Chamberlain is reloading between waves.

^^This^^

But he merely swaps-out the cylinders, which I have read never happened in real-life. Exceptions are always possible, though.

 

[ClemBert]

Well, was looking for movie scene where they are actively using that loading lever and installing caps during combat.

 

[Brad_Bradsher]

I'm thinking that in Quigley Down Under, Laura San Giacomo does a desperate, authentic reload of a Dragoon, ramming balls as a pack of dingoes slink in to attack her and the baby she's protecting.

 

[OldFashioned]

I'm thinking that in Quigley Down Under, Laura San Giacomo does a desperate, authentic reload of a Dragoon, ramming balls as a pack of dingoes slink in to attack her and the baby she's protecting.

Pretty sure this

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I'm thinking that in Quigley Down Under, Laura San Giacomo does a desperate, authentic reload of a Dragoon, ramming balls as a pack of dingoes slink in to attack her and the baby she's protecting.

There's also the scene where the one fella is hiding behind the rock reloading and Quigley comes up and covers him with his rifle.

 

[MEHavey]

Pale Rider -- start at 0:50

Historically.... ? Men just carried multiple pistols.

 

[John L Venable]

"The Quick and The Dead" shows one or two of the duelist loading Cappers.... here's a LeMat. And Sharon Stone is an added attraction.

 

[LonesomePigeon]

There is an episode of Bonanza that shows Little Joe "sort of" reloading an 1851 Navy as he hides during a gunfight. I'm not sure if it shows him ramming the balls down and capping, I think it just shows him putting the barrel back on. It's on youtube, I will try to find it.

Another thing, not exactly what you asked but there is a John Wayne movie where he is escaping in a wagon with his bride to be and they are being chased by her father in another wagon. Her father fires 5 or 6 shots, there's a pause and the he fires some more shots. The bride to be then exclaims that her father "must have brought two guns". I give them kudos for realism on that one.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I remember reading about a movie where the protagnist took a Colt SAA revolver from a fallen opponent and tucked the revolver in his belt.
In the subsequent gunfight, the script had him firing his SAA revolver empty, drawing the captured SAA revolver and firing it empty.
The film editer decided switching revolvers slowed down the action, so the final version of the scene had him firing twelve shots from a six-shooter.

I suspect that if a script called for a reload on a cap'n'ball, any footage shot would end up on the cutting room floor. The director's command is "Action!" and reloading a cap'n'ball is not action. Except if it provides suspense like the scene in Quigly.

 

[daboyleroy]

"Mountains of the Moon" is a movie from 1990. It dramatizes English explorers searching for the source of the Nile in the late 1850s. They are armed with 1851 Colts and reload during a battle with hostile natives. It's a good film but hard to find. I bought a DVD on Ebay.

 

[Saddlebag Preacher]

I'm pretty sure the movie "Ride with the Devil" with Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich has some reloading in it. If you want to see lots of old cap and ball revolvers and rifles in use, watch it. I have a few friends that were in it and they had to provide their own historically correct firearms (background actors and fighters). It is really a good movie.

 

[DD4lifeusmc]

liability issues force movie makers to use cartridge blanks.
Even out here our summer gunslinger event (fake shootouts) they have to use cartridge blanks for liability
look close in Pale rider and Outlaw Josey wales in both they are cartridge conversions
Never looked that close at his earlier movies

 

[Saddlebag Preacher]

We use blanks for cartridge firearms, but cap and ball revolvers are BP topped with cream of wheat and a drop of oil to swell the cream of wheat and can be carried all day. We are insured and pass all safety tests. We finished a movie called Cold Justice (Straight to DVD) where we used mostly cap and ball with powder and cream of wheat.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

There is an episode or two of Hell on Wheels that shows the main guy reloading a cap and ball revolver. He just changes cylinders though, not going through the reloading steps. It's an 1858 Remington IIRC.

 

[CraigC]

Ha, it's hard enough to get them to properly reload a cartridge gun! Kevin Costner reloaded his Model P in Open Range but forgot to use the ejector. I seem to recall Ed Harris reloading his in Appaloosa.

They usually use cartridge conversions because it allows the use of 5-1 blanks, which simplifies everything.

 

[Crawdad1]

We use blanks for cartridge firearms, but cap and ball revolvers are BP topped with cream of wheat and a drop of oil to swell the cream of wheat and can be carried all day. We are insured and pass all safety tests. We finished a movie called Cold Justice (Straight to DVD) where we used mostly cap and ball with powder and cream of wheat.

Where can you get this movie?

 

[Panzerschwein]

Paper carts were a very popular way to reload the guns and were the most common way.

Of course don't matter know how since it ain't in hollyweird, and if it ain't there it don't matter if it's in history because folks... well folks just don't mind history so much, they mind hollyweird and all its lies, half truths, and on carryings...