Webley WG w/ a flat grip?

[Dragonlady Jones]

Couldn't find this in a search, but this may have been answered before. Why does the butt of the presumably holstered pistol in this LC image look flat? This would seem impossible w/ the bird's head grip on the green. Am I missing something? (as impossible as that may seem)

[Indiana Bond]

It's been mentioned and theorized before that some other handgun was used as a "holster stuffer" during many of the scenes. It would make sense as there would be no reason to keep the real thing in the holster and risk damaging it. Plus it's pretty heavy also.

From your photo it definately is not the Webley WG. I'm looking at mine in my holster as I type this and it definately does not look like that! I think it may be a rubber stunt gun as the swivel does not look right to be a real gun. Or it could be a Webley MK VI as others have theorized.

Nice screen grab as it really shows that butt very well. Both the gun's and Indy's!!!

[Indiana Jeff]

Others can chime in, but I seem to recall there's been screen grabs that show some scenes with a Mark VI instead of a WG. Or perhaps I'm thinking of threads from when it was thought the LC gun was a Mark VI and the screen grabs show it to be a WG.

Regards,

Indiana Jeff

[Indiana Bond]

Jeff,

I've gone through Last Crusade frame by frame whenever Indy has his gun out of the holster and I assure you that it is always the Webley WG. There is never a MK VI shown. That is why I suspect the gun that we see in the holster is probably just a rubber stunt gun rather than a MK VI.

Below I have enlarged and enhanced the photo. It looks like a rubber gun with a molded "ring" hump. To me it sure looks like a fake gun.

[Indiana Jeff]

Fair enough. I'll trust you and others that have put in the time and analysis. That being the case I don't doubt the "in the holster" scenes used rubber stunt guns.


Regards,

Indiana Jeff

[Dragonlady Jones]

Makes sense to me. Cool - I feel like I contributed a nugget of info for once!

[Luke Warmwater]

During any stunt scenes, actors (especially the star) will have rubber props to lessen the chance of injury. The only time he'll have the hero is when he's using it.