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All in the Family = TV episode where Archi Bunker incorrectly remembers black Fridge repairman with switchblade
American Pop (1981 Ralph Bakshi) Cartoon, boy sleeping on street flicks knife to scare thug who is rolling street people
Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965) TV episode Jack Cassidy is an assassin in "the Photographer and the Undertaker"
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Schrade or Pressbutton - Cary Grant , Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey all hold knife at different times.
Assassin's Creed (video game AND movie) sleeve knife.
THE Avengers = TV episodes . English Spy "Steed" has umbrella with OTF switchblade in tip
Band of Brothers, (2001) paratrooper Schrade - guys getting ready for D-Day drop
THE Belinnis = TV unaired comedy about mafia family, several picklock scenes
Heavy Metal (1981) cartoon - Taxi Driver sees hoodlum with weird space OTF
Highlander = TV episode - mortal assassin attacks Duncan McCloud, Duncan whips out sword and says "drop it"
Flintstones (original cartoon) Monster neighbors have meat cleaver switchblade
From Russia with Love (1963) James Bond fights Rosa Klebb knife in shoe
Lifeboat (1944 Hitchcock) Schrade or Pressbutton - Talula Bankhead calms irate survivors who threaten each other
Macao (1952) 2 chinese thugs chase Robert Mitchum, throw 11 inch picklock, see YouTube link Macao knife throw how. . by pmWolf
Master Touch (1972) Kirk Douglas safecracker does one last job
Papillon (1973) man talking to Steve McQueen has yellow scaled Queen plunge release toothpick (fishing knife) (add to your otf)
Reform School Girl (1954) Gloria Castillo teen "Betty" . . .with young Sally Kellerman first movie role.
Roadhouse (1989) Fake switchblade prop - Patrick Swayze bounces guy's head off table
Sea Chase (1955) John Wayne is a Bell Diver, scene he cuts an air line, may be a lever action .
Sea Hunt = TV season 1 episode 08 Sonar Queen - Youtube video - 13 inch picklock
Star Trek (1966) = TV episode "A Piece of the Action", small boy with big stiletto
Star Trek Nemesis (2002) = Fight scene on drilling rig, Sulu has multifolding switchblade Katana
Twilight Zone = TV episode, people in amusement park, board real flying saucer, guy inside freaks and threatens others.
Two Weeks in another Town (1962 Minelli) young George Hamilton packs a 13 inch picklock
THE Wild Angels *** (1966 Roger Corman ) Peter Fonda - Nancy Sinatra - Bruce Dern ( not sure of movie name.)
Wild Wild West = TV episode James West flicks a black scaled Shure Snap with ears. ALSO - famous boot knife

vivid memory of scene but can't recall movie name
(unknown 1950's B&W film) Hypnotized girl in nightgown wakes up on boat, opens knife on bedstand, goes to kill captain
(unknown 1970's film) chinese Kung Fu movie, hero has staff with OTF blades in ends, staff turns into Nunchucks.
(unknown 1970's film) tough pimp castrates sugar daddy pimp with 12 inch tilt bolster.


FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL (1965) Russ Meyer's movie
Tura Satana ( Ernest Borgnine's wife in real life ) flicks a rizzy missing guards
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more photos
Dr. No James Bond fights guy with switchblade
Hitchcock hour - photographer and undertaker
ghost rider movie - skull melts knife blade
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Kirk Douglas playing Doc Holliday in "OK Corral"
See lots of 1950's picklocks stuck in a door . .way back in 1881
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Unknown movie with Elvis and Switchblade
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Photo courtesy of JACKALOPE . . . Kirk Douglas in "Master Touch"
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Rosa Klebb in James Bond 007 "From Russia with Love" Actress Lotte Lenya
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More photos by JACKALOPE collection

"Reform School Girl" and "Two weeks in another Town"
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Cheech and Chong - "Things Are Tough All Over"

I have never seen a lockback with the big locktab release pong horn. . .
I don't know if this is a movie prop modification. . . or a weird middle eastern production item never sold stateside.

My favorite knife scene is when he fails to open a cardboard box with his knife . .
Followed by him picking his toenail jamb with the same knife as he peels and eats fruit with.
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Roger Corman's "The Wild Angels"
The small guy looks like Michael J. Pollard (C.W.Moss in the Warren Beatty / Bonnie and Clyde film )

But the same cast and crew of Roger Corman made " Glory Stompers" - - - "Born Losers" - - - " Devil's Angels"
which may all very likely have more switchblade scenes
Because I have a clear memory of a "promo Photo" of a hoodlum with a 13 inch stiletto
pointed at a girl in an old style Telephone Booth with glass panels out on the street.

My Dad had a motorcycle kidney belt like the middle guy. . . . Dad wrecked his Indian cycle back in the 40's.

(I think this is also a JACKALOPE collection promo photo)
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Wait until Dark and Savage Streets
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Good to see you post, jerr...Was worrying about you.
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jerryk25 wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 5:52 am(unknown 1970's film) tough pimp castrates sugar daddy pimp with 12 inch tilt bolster.
I wonder if this is "Vice Squad"? It's from 1982. Wings Hauser plays a psycho pimp armed with a large stiletto switchblade. In one scene it appears that he castrates another, somewhat effeminate black pimp.


There is seemingly no end to switchblade sightings in tv and movies. I was watching something on PBS, and there was a preview between shows for an episode of some PBS mystery series, and the bad guy in the preview had a stiletto switchblade. And I thought to myself "Even PBS has switchblades". :D

Unfortunately I neglected to remember the title of that show.
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Killgar wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 6:34 am There is seemingly no end to switchblade sightings in tv and movies. I was watching something on PBS, and there was a preview between shows for an episode of some PBS mystery series, and the bad guy in the preview had a stiletto switchblade. And I thought to myself "Even PBS has switchblades". :D

Unfortunately I neglected to remember the title of that show.
The name of that show is "Guilt". Well worth a watch based on the first season. Here is the link to the 30 second preview. Knife appears at about the 9 second mark.
https://www.pbs.org/video/season-2-preview-3mpbqs/
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The HIGHWAYMEN . . . Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner play Manny Gualt and Frank Hamer Texas Rangers
who gather a posse and hunt down Bonnie and Clyde.

Woody is threatened in a bar restroom by a local thug.

YouTube Video Clip Link
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Shows how something can be right under your nose, and you can't recall it.
I've been rewatching the clips that show the 30-06 B.A.R. rifle
that was converted into a Colt Monitor for the movie. . . .
And I know this knife scene. . . I just forgot it.
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