I saw a mafia movie many years ago (turns out it was 1999), and there was an OTF in it that really struck me. It wasn't like one of the cheap ones from the 80's, it looked like a nice one, and big for an OTF.
I quickly forgot the name of the movie, and the cast, I only saw it once. But I've always remembered the knife, even though it was only on screen for a few seconds. I never saw it again, the movie or a knife like it. And there are so many mafia movies I never bothered looking for it.
Then yesterday, over two decades later, I was online researching a different switchblade, and by chance I stumbled into some obscure forum where someone mentioned an OTF in a mafia movie called "The Youngest Don". I wondered if that could be it, so I Google that title, but no such movie exists. However I found a movie called "The Youngest Godfather", with Edward James Olmos, and that triggered my memory. So today I watched it on Youtube, and it was THE movie (knife at the end of part 2). So finally, after all these years, I saw the knife again. Ain't the internet great.
Below is the best picture I could take. I doubt that it's a prop made for the movie because it's a low-budget movie, and they could have just as easily used any knife for the scene, or no knife at all. For about a millisecond there is a glimpse of what appears to be a silver button or slide switch right under the bolster (I think a slide switch). And for another millisecond, right before it's used to stab the Boss (Olmos), there is what appears to be a charging handle at the butt end of the knife (a horizontal bar with two pins in it), but I can't be sure.
Since the movie is from 1999 I doubt it's a cheap Chinese knife. I'd appreciate any info anyone might have on this knife. I've finally found the movie, now I'd like to identify the knife.
