Smith & Wesson Model 36 / 38

The Smith & Wesson Model 36/38/49 is used in the following:

Smith & Wesson Model 36 "Chiefs Special"

Smith & Wesson Model 36 - .38 Special - 5 shot. First pattern with flat latch cylinder release.

Smith & Wesson Model 60, stainless variant of the Model 36 - .38 Special.

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Smith & Wesson Model 36 (Nickel-Plated) - .38 Special

Smith & Wesson Model 36 - .38 Special

Smith & Wesson Model 36 with square butt - .38 Special

The Smith and Wesson Model 36 (often called simply ".38 snubnose") was introduced in 1950 as the "Chief's Special" (sometimes called the "Police Chiefs Special"). When Smith & Wesson adopted a model number only system seven years later, the revolvers' name was changed to Model 36. It is famous as being the first J-frame revolver in the S&W series (the earlier models were called "I-frames"). It is commonly used as a "belly gun", being stuffed in the pants waist, or as an officer's "Spare Rod", strapped to the ankle in a holster. It holds five rounds of .38 special.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The 39 Steps	Barry Jones	Professor Logan		1959
À tout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117	Valéry Inkijinoff	Yekota		1966
À tout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117		Japanese agent		1966
Fantômas contre Scotland Yard	Mylène Demongeot	Hélène Gurn		1967
Fantômas contre Scotland Yard		Officer of Scotland Yard		1967
The Sicilian Clan (Le clan des Siciliens)	Lino Ventura	Police commissioner Le Guff		1969
Machine Gun McCain	Tony Kendall	Pete Zacari		1969
The Godfather	James Caan	Sonny Corleone		1972
Dirty Money	Riccardo Cucciolla	Paul Weber		1972
Trouble Man		Henchman		1972
The Night Stalker	Claude Akins	Warren Butcher		1972
The Hot Rock		N.Y.P.D. officers		1972
Shaft's Big Score!	Richard Roundtree	Shaft		1972
The Friends of Eddie Coyle		Gangsters		1973
Serpico	Al Pacino	Frank Serpico		1973
Serpico	F. Murray Abraham	An N.Y.P.D. detective		1973
The Seven-Ups	Roy Scheider	Buddy Manucci		1973
Dog Day Afternoon	Lance Henriksen	F.B.I. Special Agent Murphy		1975
The Yakuza		Yakuza gangsters		1975
French Connection II	Gene Hackman	Popeye Doyle		1975
Escape to Witch Mountain	Lawrence Montaigne	Ubermann		1975
Taxi Driver	Robert De Niro	Travis Bickle		1976
Taxi Driver	Nat Grant	Store Robber		1976
Assault on Precinct 13	Martin West	Lawson		1976
Marathon Man	William Devane	Janeway		1976
St. Ives	Harris Yulin	Detective Oller		1976
St. Ives	Dana Elcar	Charlie Blunt		1976
High Anxiety	Rudy De Luca	The assassin		1977
A Force of One	Jennifer O'Neill	Mandy Rust		1979
A Force of One	Clu Gulager	Lt. Dunne		1979
A Force of One	Ron O'Neal	Det. Rollins		1979
A Force of One	James Whitmore Jr.	Det. Moskowitz		1979
A Force of One	Taylor Lacher	Det. Bishop		1979
A Force of One	Pepe Serna	Det. Orlando		1979
Escape from New York	Lee Van Cleef	Warden Bob Hauk		1981
Code Name: Wild Geese	Klaus Kinski	Charleton		1984
Code Name: Wild Geese		Charleton's men		1984
Death Wish 3	Ed Lauter	Shriker		1985
Popeye Doyle	Ed O'Neill	Popeye Doyle		1986
Big Trouble in Little China	Donald Li	Eddie		1986
Cobra	Art LaFleur	Captain Sears		1986
Cobra	Andrew Robinson	Detective Monte		1986
No Way Out	Will Patton	Scott Pritchard		1987
Best Seller	Brian Dennehy	Dennis Meechum		1987
Rage of Honor	Gerry Gibson	Dick Coleman		1987
Red Heat	Laurence Fishburne	Lt. Charlie Stobbs		1988
In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders	Peter McRobbie	Agent John Hanlon	.	1988
Tango & Cash	Sylvester Stallone	Det. Ray Tango		1989
The Package	Joanna Cassidy	Lieutenant Colonel Gallagher		1989
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear	George Kennedy	Capt. Ed Hocken		1991
Sneakers	Sidney Poitier	Donald Crease		1992
Sneakers	Robert Redford	Martin Bishop		1992
Rapid Fire	Kate Hodge	Detective Karla Withers		1992
Thunderheart	Val Kilmer	Agent Ray Levoi		1992
Carlito's Way	Joseph Siravo	Vincent Taglialucci	.	1993
A Bronx Tale	Chazz Palminteri	Sonny	.	1993
Jennifer Eight	Graham Beckel	Det. John Taylor	.	1993
Legends of the Fall	Julia Ormond	Susannah Fincannon Ludlow		1994
China Moon	Madeleine Stowe	Rachel Munro		1994
China Moon	Ed Harris	Kyle Bodin		1994
Speed	Daniel Villarreal	Ray		1994
Naked Gun 33 1/3:The Final Insult	George Kennedy	Capt. Ed Hocken		1994
Die Hard with a Vengeance	Bruce Willis	Lieutenant John McClane		1995
Mulholland Falls	Nick Nolte	Det. Lt. Hoover		1996
Fargo	Frances McDormand	Marge Gunderson		1996
The Long Kiss Goodnight	Samuel L. Jackson	Mitch Hennesy		1996
Hard Rain	Mark Rolston	Wayne		1998
The Bone Collector	Angelina Jolie	Amelia Donaghy		1999
Frequency	Shawn Doyle	Jack Shepard		2000
The Crew	Richard Dreyfuss	Bobby Bartellemeo		2000
Scotland, PA.	Christopher Walken	Lt. Ernie McDuff		2001
Angel Eyes	Jennifer Lopez	Sharon Pogue		2001
Picture Claire	Peter Stebbings	Culver		2001
Murder by Numbers	Ryan Gosling	Richard Haywood		2002
Death to Smoochy	Edward Norton	Sheldon Mopes		2002
Death to Smoochy	Robin Williams	Rainbow Randolph		2002
Death to Smoochy	Danny DeVito	Burke Bennett		2002
City Of God	Matheus Nachtergaele	Carrot		2002
Crash	Chris "Ludacris" Bridges	Anthony		2005
Crash	Larenz Tate	Peter		2005
The Lost City	Andy Garcia	Fico Fellove		2005
The Lost City	Victor Rivers	El Indio		2005
Halloween	Sheri Moon Zombie	Deborah Myers		2007
Orphan	Isabelle Fuhrman	Esther		2009
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice	Tom Selleck	Chief Jesse Stone		2009
The Perfect Host	Clayne Crawford	John Taylor		2010
Nine Dead	John Terry	Shooter		2010
Nine Dead	Edrick Browne	Leon	Nickel-plated	2010
Nine Dead	Melissa Joan Hart	Kelley		2010
Tower Heist	Eddie Murphy	Slide	nickel-plated	2011
Tower Heist	Matthew Broderick	Mr. Fitzhugh	nickel-plated	2011
Tower Heist	Ben Stiller	Josh Kovacs	nickel-plated	2011
Assassination Games	Scott Adkins	Roland Flint		2011

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Hawaii Five-O	Jack Lord	Steve McGarret		1968-1979
Hawaii Five-O	Kam Fong	Chin Ho		1968-1979
Hawaii Five-O	James MacArthur	Danny "Danno" Williams		1968-1979
The Professionals				1977-1981
Magnum P.I.	Eugene Roche	Luther Gillis		1980-1988
Miami Vice	Steven Keats	Jack Rivers		1984-1989
Crime Story		Chicago PD Detectives		1986-1988
Law & Order	Chris Noth	Detective Mike Logan		1990-2010
Law & Order	George Dzundza	Sergeant Max Greevey		1990-1991
Law & Order	Paul Sorvino	Sergeant Phil Cerreta		1991-1992
Law & Order	Jerry Orbach	Detective Lenny Briscoe		1990-2010
Law & Order	Dann Florek	Captain Donald Cragen		1990-1993
Law & Order	S. Epatha Merkerson	Lt. Anita Van Buren		1993-2010
Third Watch	Skip Sudduth	Officer John "Sully" Sullivan		1999-2005
Monk	David Koechner	Joey Krenshaw	"Mr. Monk and the Daredevil"	2002-2009
CSI: NY	Alex Cranmer	Bob Tanner	"Cuckoo's Nest" (S06E08)	2004-Present
CSI: NY		Santa	"Second Chances" (S06E11)	2004-Present
CSI: NY	Brian Goodman	Tony Dirisa	"Rest in Peace, Marina Garito" (S06E18)	2004-Present
CSI: NY			"Unusual Suspects" (S06E21), with bobbed hammer	2004-Present
CSI: NY	Edward Furlong	Sean Casey	"Vacation Getaway" (S06E23)	2004-Present
My Name is Earl	Mike O'Malley	Officer Stuart Daniels	(S1E22)	2005-2009
My Name is Earl	Giovanni Ribisi	Ralph	(S2E05)	2005-2009
Criminal Minds	Bailey Chase	Jason Clark Battle		2005-Present
Dolmen	Ingrid Chauvin	Marie Kermeur		2005
Guns				2008
Community	Alison Brie	Annie Edison	(S2E19)	2009-Present
Haven				2010-present
The Confession	Kiefer Sutherland	The Confessor	.	2011
The Confession	Curtis McClarin	Man in house	.	2011

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Gunsmith Cats	Rally		1995-1996
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex	The Laughing Man		2002-2003
Black Lagoon	Elroy		2006
Eden of the East	Takizawa Akira		2009
Eden of the East the Movie I: King of Eden	Saki Morimi		2009

Smith & Wesson Model 38/49

Smith & Wesson Model 49 - .38 Special

Smith & Wesson Model 38, aluminum-alloy-framed version of Model 49 - .38 Special

Smith & Wesson Nickel Plated Model 38 (Airweight version) with Pearl Grips - .38 Special

Smith & Wesson Bodyguard with longer barrel

The Smith & Wesson Model 38/49 "Bodyguard" is a Model 36 that has a "Camel Hump" hammer shroud used to prevent clothing snag, as the hammer is concealed in the shroud. The Smith & Wesson Bodyguard was unusual in that the alloy framed "Airweight" version was released first, as the Smith & Wesson Airweight Bodyguard, in 1955. In 1957 Smith & Wesson introduced a new model numbering system, with the Airweight Bodyguard becoming the Model 38. The steel-framed Bodyguard, the Model 49, was not introduced until 1959, unusual in that most Airweights were preceded by their steel counterparts. For the new polymer framed Bodyguard see Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 38.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Machine Gun McCain	John Cassavetes	Hank McCain		1969
Violent City	Charles Bronson	Jeff Heston		1970
Violent City	Jill Ireland	Vanessa Shelton		1970
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Le retour du grand blond)	Pierre Richard	François Perrin	.	1974
Fear over the City (Peur sur la ville)	Jean-Paul Belmondo	Commissaire Jean Letellier	.	1975
Moonraker	Leila Shenna	Hostess Private Jet	.	1979
Moonraker	Jean-Pierre Castaldi	Pilot Private Jet	.	1979
The Big Easy	Dennis Quaid	Detective Lt. Remy McSwain	.	1987
Red Heat	Gretchen Palmer	Hooker	.	1988
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane	Andrew Dice Clay	Ford Fairlane	nickel-plated, pearl grips	1990
Hoffa	Danny DeVito	Bobby Ciaro	.	1992
Little Odessa	Tim Roth	Joshua Shapira	.	1994
Little Odessa	Edward Furlong	Reuben Shapira	.	1994
Eraser	Vanessa Williams	Dr. Lee Cullen	.	1996
The Family Man	Don Cheadle	Cash	.	2000
Red Dragon	Edward Norton	Will Graham	.	2002

Television

Title/Episode	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Miami Vice	Philip Michael Thomas	Detective Ricardo Tubbs		1984-1989
Sledge Hammer!	Anne-Marie Martin	Det. Dori Doreau		1986-1988
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei				1996-

See Also

• Smith & Wesson - A list of all firearms manufactured by Smith & Wesson.
• Smith & Wesson Model 649 - The Stainless Steel version of the Model 49.