Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world” soliloquy during the opening credits, as he cocks and aims his Model 29 at the audience. As a result, Model 29s were selling for as much as three times their suggested retail price of $194-when they could be found.ĭemand continued two years later when, in the “Dirty Harry” sequel “Magnum Force,” Eastwood repeats his “This is a 44. Then, overnight the Model 29 was on everybody’s “most wanted” list. took S&W by surprise, as prior to the release of “Dirty Harry,” demand for the bulky, hard-recoiling handgun had fallen so low that the Model 29-though still cataloged-was out of production. 44 Mag., but a frenzied public clamoring for an S&W Model 29-which, at that time, really was the most powerful commercially made handgun in the world. What erupted immediately after that wasn’t the roar of a. 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself.
Who can forget those taunting, haunting words uttered by Eastwood as he squinted down that 6½-inch barrel aimed at actor Albert “Poppy” Popwell: Such was not the case with “Dirty Harry” in 1971, starring Clint Eastwood, for the Smith & Wesson Model 29 that he packed in a Bucheimer-Clark shoulder holster and that was interwoven into his movie character, Inspector Harry Callahan.
But in these movies the guns took second billing to the starring character. Interestingly, both starred Jimmy Stewart. “Winchester 73,” a 1950 Western that follows the trail of a stolen lever-action back to its rightful owner, and “Carbine Williams,” the 1952 film about David Marshal Williams and the M1 carbine, are two that come to mind. There is only a handful of motion pictures in which a specific gun played a starring role. Then in 1971, it became one of the most famous and desirable handguns of all time. Out of production and somewhat obscure, the Smith & Wesson Model 29 was once well known only to serious big-bore handgunners.
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