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Old 11-28-02 | 03:03 PM
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Did anybody mention the end of STATE OF GRACE?
Yeah, just did, but I hadn't seen your post yet when I wrote mine. Odd coincidence.
Old 11-28-02 | 03:05 PM
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Scarface The ending shootout.Classic!
Old 11-28-02 | 03:06 PM
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i find it funny how there are 52 posts and only 47 views.
Old 11-28-02 | 03:44 PM
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The first shoot-out in Hard Boiled with the guns coming out of the bird cages.
Old 11-28-02 | 08:11 PM
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OK....I need some help on this one.

There are many great "gunfights" on film (many of which have already been listed in this thread), but how about the most unusual?

Here's where I need help......
The movie I'm thinking of is in B&W. I thought it stared Robert Ryan (but I can't find it under his credits in the IMDb).

The last scene is one in which the star (who was once a harpooner on a whale ship) faces off against a gunman with a harpoon. I should know this movie and even have it in my VHS collection, but can't remember the name for the life of me

BTW: It's been on TCM recently (maybe even twice).
Old 11-28-02 | 09:10 PM
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.. and another vote for Boondock Saints.
Old 11-28-02 | 10:03 PM
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Another vote for the bank heist sequence gone horribly wrong in Heat. Chaos spills into the streets...
Old 11-29-02 | 01:40 AM
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Tombstone

Doc Holiday vs. Johnny Ringo
Old 11-29-02 | 01:27 PM
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I hate to start a new thread to get an answer to my question (related to the topic of this thread). Therefore, as a reminder I ask once again.....Does anyone have the answer? What movie am I thinking of?

Thanks
Old 11-29-02 | 03:02 PM
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I hate to start a new thread to get an answer to my question (related to the topic of this thread). Therefore, as a reminder I ask once again.....Does anyone have the answer? What movie am I thinking of?

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Hi Vampyr, nice to hear from you again!

I think this is what you are looking for - Terror in a Texas Town (1958) with Sterling Hayden; it was on TCM earlier this month.

Following is the IMDb.com link:

Terror in a Texas Town starring Sterling Hayden @IMDb
Old 11-29-02 | 03:16 PM
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definitely boondock saints
Old 11-29-02 | 03:22 PM
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1. Heat (this one just captures a real sense of tension for me, much more realistic and easy to get involved in then Woo's.)
2. Warehouse scene in Hard-Boiled
3. Better Tommorrow 2 (The mansion scene is just crazy, I have never seen anything like that before, way to much violence )
4. Desperado (Bar scene)
Old 11-29-02 | 03:48 PM
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Hi Vampyr, nice to hear from you again!

I think this is what you are looking for - Terror in a Texas Town (1958) with Sterling Hayden; it was on TCM earlier this month.

Following is the IMDb.com link:

Terror in a Texas Town starring Sterling Hayden @IMDb

I knew I could count on you flixtime

That most certainly is the one I was thinking of. Besides being a good movie, that last "gunfight" must be the most unusual ever shot. You don't see a guman taken down by a harpoon too often
Old 11-29-02 | 04:20 PM
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Didn't James Bond take someone out with a harpoon?

I vote for High Noon. You expect the sheriff to stand tall and meet these guys in the town square, face to face, like all those other old westerns. He hides behind stuff.
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Originally posted by Nick Danger
Didn't James Bond take someone out with a harpoon?

I vote for High Noon. You expect the sheriff to stand tall and meet these guys in the town square, face to face, like all those other old westerns. He hides behind stuff.






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Old 11-30-02 | 02:07 PM
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im surprised nobody has mentioned the "mexican standoff" scene at the end of true romance.
Old 11-30-02 | 02:29 PM
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im surprised nobody has mentioned the "mexican standoff" scene at the end of true romance.
Try page one of this thread.
Old 12-01-02 | 01:13 AM
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Best. Fight. Ever.
Old 12-01-02 | 08:54 PM
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Heat #1
Matrix #2
Replacement Killers-The whole movie is a shootout! #3
True Romance#4
Tombstone#5

I have not seen a couple of the other movies mentioned so this is just based on movies I have.
Old 12-01-02 | 09:09 PM
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Best. Fight. Ever.
Haha - very funny. Wasn't much of a fight though (and there were no guns).
Old 12-01-02 | 09:18 PM
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I just thought of another one I have not seen mentioned yet that would be hard to beat . Bruce Willis-Last Man Standing!! That movie is nothing but gunfights all the way through it and some are pretty intense!!
Old 12-01-02 | 10:17 PM
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This all depends on your definition of the term "Gunfight". A lot of what's been mentioned here is more what I'd call a "Firefight", some kind of combat. The term "Gunfight", to me, means two guys, standing in the street, settling it w/ pistols. By that definition, nothing, and I mean nothing, tops Bronson and Fonda's climactic duel in Once Upon A Time in The West. We finally get to find out what's been eating Bronson and why he wants revenge. One of the coolest, most chill-inducing scenes in cinema history.
Old 12-02-02 | 02:10 PM
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All of the titles listed above are great shoot-em-ups, but if we are including war flicks, Band of Brothers 'Bastogne' episode wins hands down. Especially when it's turned up loud...

2nd place is Black Hawk Down for realism.


If war flicks are not included, I'd have to go with Heat opening scene. WOW!

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