Movie Switchblades

[ILikeStilettos]

There was a 9" Italian in the latest Indiana Jones movie. It almost looks like it has a clip-point in the first shot. I would have thought they just put a manual in with a "click" dubbed in but we later see that it was a real switchblade. So it probably is a bayonet and the angle just makes it look like a CP.

The movie took place in 1957 and the stiletto was a swivel-bolster. I guess that is the least of the historical inaccuracies in this movie.

At least they used an Italian stiletto, a knife that other than the top bolster, is almost identical to the 50s knives, other than they are not as well made. I haven't seen the movie, but I saw a post on here that shows a Leverletto in Gangster Squad, a movie that takes place in the late 40s. In the movie "Stand By Me," their is a Korean swingguard and the film takes place in the 50s.

The only switchblade I recall from Indiana Jones was the one his ex-wife kept in the top of her stocking. Please someone, post that picture, hubba hubba!

[JimBrown257]

The only switchblade I recall from Indiana Jones was the one his ex-wife kept in the top of her stocking. Please someone, post that picture, hubba hubba!

I don't recall Indiana Jones' ex-wife having a switchblade.

For that matter, I don't recall Indiana Jones having an ex-wife.

Which movie was it where you saw the switchblade?

[ILikeStilettos]

The only switchblade I recall from Indiana Jones was the one his ex-wife kept in the top of her stocking. Please someone, post that picture, hubba hubba!

I don't recall Indiana Jones' ex-wife having a switchblade.

For that matter, I don't recall Indiana Jones having an ex-wife.

Which movie was it where you saw the switchblade?

The last one. Sheila LaBeouf is his son, his mom is the ex-wife.

[JimBrown257]

The mom was the ex-girlfriend, she was never actually married to Indy until the end of the last movie. She got knocked up by Indy sometime shortly after Raiders and then Indy took off (not knowing he had knocker her up). So she married some other archeology guy they knew and she just told him (the other guy) that the kid from Tranformers was his kid.

Indy's got a surprisingly white trash past.

[Danny Bailey]

The last one. Sheila LaBeouf is his son, his mom is the ex-wife.

Sheila?

[JimBrown257]

The last one. Sheila LaBeouf is his son, his mom is the ex-wife.

Sheila?

Marion (the girl from Raiders and Animal House).

The kid kept calling her 'Mary' so Indy didn't know it was Marion until he actually saw her in Peru (I think it was Peru).

[krakenten]

Darkest Peru.

[Krab-E]

I spotted a couple of interesting blades recently; A couple of really chunky lever-actions in "M", starring Peter Lorre & made by Fritz Lang in 1928. & a gravity knife that Lawence Harvey had for clearance diving in "The Silent Enemy" -1958.

[JimBrown257]

I found the one in M. It looks like a JA Henckels or maybe a Case. Peter Lorre uses it to try and pry open a locked door. And...well, you can see how that turns out.

Here is the movie on YT, you can see the times in the lower left of the pics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_ldOK3dDE

[RSD100]

Just watched Born To Kill (1947) on TCM a few nights ago. Early in the movie Lawrence Tierney uses a clip-bladed push button on a little guy in a nice suit who insults Tierny's date.

[Krab-E]

Thanx Jim

[JimBrown257]

Thanx Jim

No problem. Did that knife make any other appearances in the movie? I just scrolled though it on YT and I happened to find that scene. I've seen that movie before but I can't remember if there were any other scenes with the knife.

[dwells]

Where Angels Go Trouble Follows was a film from 1968 starring Stella Stevens, Rosalind Russell and Van Johnson. There was a scene where some scooter trash pulled up next to the broke down bus and a dude went to flickin on a nun. Anyone remember this one? Looks like an 11" something or another.

[JimBrown257]

D, welcome back!

That does look like an 11" (though it might be a 9"; it's tough to tell).

Man, the only thing as hot as a movie switchblade is the girls who play nuns in movies.

[dwells]

Hey Jim,

Yeah, Stella was pretty hot stuff back in the day. I watched this old flick a few weeks ago and thought of this thread. A bus load of Catholic school girls in trouble...ummm...never mind .