McCabe & Mrs. Miller

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Whats that ugly pistol in the "Battle in the Blizzard" at the end of the movie?  It could not have been a stopper, as the Psycho Kidd was able to inflict a fatal wound as he himself was dying.

[The Elderly Kid]

didn't somebody in the movie remark that it was Swedish? Swiss, maybe? It's been a long time. The impression I got was Glisenti. A European break-open, anyway, but definitely not of the Enfield-Webly family.

[The Elderly Kid]

Nope. Fact-checked my faulty memory and the Glisenti was an early Italian semi-auto. It might've been a Husqvarna 11mm 1871, or a Swedich 7.5mm 1878, a Nagant design, but not to be confused with the Russian Nagant, which was different. Some oddball European revolver, anyway. Personally, I've always wondered about the huge rifle carried by the equally huge British actor Hugh Millais, who played the Company assassin. It had a barrel about five feet long and in one long shot you could see what looked like a straight bolt handle sticking out one side. Was this a real rifle or a dummied-up prop made to look intimidating? Whatever, that was a fine if decidedly eccentric Western.

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[Longhornboot]

http://www.deactivated-guns.co.uk/detail/Austrian_gasser.htm

I think this is what Mr McCabe was using.

I don't know about our English friend.

Boot.