Colt Police Positive

Colt Police Positive with 4" Barrel - .38 Special

Colt Police Positive - .38 Special

Nickel Colt Police Positive - .38 Special

Colt Police Positive - .32/.38 Special

Colt Police Positive Nickel - .32 Special

Colt Police Positive Target - .22 Long Rifle

Specifications

(1907 - 1978)

Type: Revolver

Caliber: .38 Colt New Police (.38 S&W), 32 Colt New Police (.32 S&W Long), .32 Long/Short Colt, .22 Long Rifle, .22 WRF, also 32-20 and 38 Special in the Colt Police Positive Special, a variant with a slightly longer cylinder to accommodate the longer cartridges.

Length: 8.5 in (21.6 cm) (4 in barrel)

Barrel Length: 2.5 in (6.4 cm), 4 in (10.2 cm), 5 in (12.7 cm), 6 in (15.2 cm)

Capacity: 6 rounds

Fire Modes: SA/DA

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The Colt Police Positive can be seen used by the following actors in the following movies:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Public Enemy	James Cagney	Tom Powers		1931
The Public Enemy	Edward Woods	Matt Doyle		1931
Scarface (1932)	George Raft	Guino Rinaldo		1932
King Kong (1933)	Bruce Cabot	Jack Driscoll		1933
Angels With Dirty Faces	James Cagney	Rocky Sullivan		1938
Angels With Dirty Faces	Adrian Morris	Blackie		1938
The Roaring Twenties	Paul Kelly	Nick Brown		1939
Bulldog Drummond in Africa	E.E. Clive	"Tenny" Tennison		1938
The Boss of Big Town	H.B. Warner	Jeffrey Moore		1942
White Heat	Wally Cassell	"Cotton" Valletti		1949
The Naked City	Don Taylor	Detective Jimmy Halloran		1948
The Naked City	Barry Fitzgerald	Detective Lieutenant Dan Muldoon		1948
The Naked City	Ted de Corsia	Willie Garzah		1948
No Orchids for Miss Blandish	Richard Nielson	Riley		1948
Gun Crazy	Russ Tamblyn	Bart Tare		1950
Paratrooper		British Paratrooper		1953
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers	Donald Curtis	Maj. Huglin		1956
Touch of Evil	Orson Welles	Hank Quinlan		1958
The Hideous Sun Demon	Richard Cassarino	Policeman		1959
Pretty Boy Floyd		Ohio Policeman		1960
A Man Named Rocca (Un nommé La Rocca)	Michel Constantin	The boss of racketeers		1961
Cape Fear	Gregory Peck	Sam Bowden		1962
Goldfinger		Goldfinger's guards		1964
Arabesque	Duncan Lamont	Webster	suppressed	1966
Arabesque	Harold Kasket	Mohammed Lufti		1966
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre		False policemen		1967
Targets			Seen in Bobby's car trunk	1968
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling	Jan Libícek	Chief Brooks		1971
The Grissom Gan	Joey Faye	Woppy	suppressed	1971
The Grissom Gang	Ralph Waite	Mace		1971
Fear Is the Key	Barry Newman	John Talbot		1972
Boxcar Bertha	Joe Reynolds	Joe Cox		1972
The Friends of Eddie Coyle		Gangsters		1973
Dillinger (1973)		Mason City vigilante		1973
Death Wish	Charles Bronson	Paul Kersey		1974
Foxy Brown	Tony Giorgio	Eddie		1974
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot	George Kennedy	Red Leary		1974
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze		Seas' Henchmen		1975
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot	Geoffrey Lewis	Eddie Goody		1977
Bulldogs and Cherries	Frantisek Nemec	Gómez		1981
Bulldogs and Cherries	Jirí Kodet	Salvatore		1981
Once Upon A Time In America	James Russo	Bugsy		1984
American Ninja		A rebel	Custom grips	1985
The Sicilian Connection (Pizza Connection)		Killers		1985
Crossroads	Joe Seneca	Willie Brown		1986
The Untouchables	Andy Garcia	George Stone		1987
Mobsters	Christian Slater	Charlie "Lucky" Luciano		1991
Billy Bathgate	Loren Dean	Billy Bathgate		1991
Oscar (1991)		Several police officers		1991
Hoffa		Truck Driver		1992
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	Joe Pesci	Harry Lyme		1992
Legends of the Fall	Kenneth Welsh	Sheriff Tynert		1994
The Shawshank Redemption	Jeffrey DeMunn	The District Attorney		1994
Tommy Boy		guards		1995
L.A. Confidential		Dead Nite Owl Cook		1997
Hoodlum	Laurence Fishburne	Bumpy Johnson		1997
The Newton Boys		Canadian Bank Messengers		1998
Free Money	Thomas Haden Church	Larry	with 4" Barrel	1998
Ghost Ship		crew-member		2002
Chicago		unknown woman		2002
The Rundown			in the armory	2003
Big Fish			Edward Bloom	2003
Rapid Fire (2006)	Lauro Chartrand	One of Deputy Lauro's		2006
Postal			member of cult, the Denomination of Organic Monotheism	2007
Public Enemies	Johnny Depp	John Dillinger		2009
The Guard		Drug Smugglers		2011
The Guard	Mark Strong	Clive Cornell		2011
Sharknado	Israel Sáez de Miguel	Capt. Carlos Santiago		2013

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note/Episode	Date
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, The	Nikolai Kryukov	Colonel Sebastian Moran	1979-1986
Seinfeld	Jerry Seinfeld	Jerry	"The Baby Shower" S02E10	1989-1998
Continuum - Season 1	Erik Knudsen	Alec Sadler	S01E09	2012
Boardwalk Empire	William Forsythe	Manny Horvitz		2010-2014
Mob City		One of Dragna's men	"The Banana Majesty" (S1E04)	2013

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Desert Punk	Kanta Mizuno		2004

See Also

• Colt's Manufacturing Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt.