Posted October 8, 2019 5:58 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

One thing that remains constant in the noir films and fiction is the gun selection. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
For a big chunk of the 20th Century, handy, often pocket-sized revolvers and pistols accompanied the hardboiled gumshoes of the period’s entertainment.
Film Noir, the cinematic term for the legion of black & white movies from the late 1920s through the 1950s based on popular crime and detective fiction of the era, followed the likes of tough-talking private investigators such as Lew Archer, Mike Hammer, Philip Marlowe, and Sam Spade. In a reflection of their fictional life and times, they carried an array of now-classic heaters, hog legs, mohashkas and roscoes that likewise accompanied that day’s real police while being popular in the consumer market for self-defense as well.
Colt Detective
When going into harm’s way on a case for a questionable dame, the Colt Detective was mandatory. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
COLT DETECTIVE SPECIALS FROM $645.98
Perhaps no other wheel gun is as popular in noir fiction than Colt’s Detective Special models. First introduced in 1927 as a chopped down take on Colt Police series, the reliable all-steel six-shot snub predated Smith & Wesson’s J-frames by a generation and were soon in service from coast to coast during

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