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.

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

• Dennis Farina as Capt. Nick Detillo in Striking Distance (1993)

• Ed O'Neill as Popeye Doyle in Popeye Doyle (1986)

• Nick Nolte as Det. Lt. Hoover in Mulholland Falls (1996)

• Samuel L. Jackson as Mitch Hennesy in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

• Angelina Jolie as Amelia Donaghy in The Bone Collector (1999)

• Chris "Ludacris" Bridges as Anthony in Crash (2005)

• Larenz Tate as Peter in Crash (2005)

• Ryan Gosling as Richard Haywood in Murder by Numbers (2002)

• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

• Julia Ormond as Susannah Fincannon Ludlow in Legends of the Fall (1994)

• Joanna Cassidy as Lieutenant Colonel Gallagher in The Package (1989)

• Will Patton as Scott Pritchard in No Way Out (1987)

• Scotland, PA. (2001)

• Claude Akins as Warren Butcher in The Night Stalker (1972)

• Frances McDormand as Brainerd Chief of Police Marge Gunderson in Fargo (1996)

• Mark Rolston as Wayne in Hard Rain (1998)

• Gangsters in The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)

• Lance Henriksen as F.B.I. Special Agent Murphy in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

• Roy Scheider as Buddy Manucci in The Seven-Ups (1973)

• George Kennedy as Capt. Ed Hocken in The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)

• George Kennedy as Capt. Ed Hocken in Naked Gun 33 1/3:The Final Insult (1994)

• N.Y.P.D. officers in The Hot Rock (1972)

• Richard Roundtree as Shaft in Shaft's Big Score! (1972)

• William Devane as Janeway in Marathon Man (1976)

• Al Pacino as Frank Serpico in Serpico (1973)

• F. Murray Abraham as an N.Y.P.D. detective in Serpico (1973)

• Mel Brooks in High Anxiety (1977)

• Graham Beckel as Det. John Taylor in Jennifer Eight (1993)

• Tom Selleck as Chief Jesse Stone in Jesse Stone: Thin Ice

• James Caan as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather(1971)

• Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)

• Nat Grant as Store Robber in Taxi Driver (1976)

• Shawn Doyle as Jack Shepard in Frequency (2000)

• Dawn of the Dead (1978)

• Gene Hackman as Popeye Doyle in French Connection II (1975)

• Art LaFleur as Captain Sears and Andrew Robinson as Detective Monte in Cobra

• Bruce Willis as Lieutenant John McClane in Die Hard with a Vengeance

• Sylvester Stallone as Det. Ray Tango in Tango & Cash

• Yakuza gangsters in The Yakuza

• Lee Van Cleef as warden Bob Hauk in Escape from New York

• Tupac Shakur as Bishop in Juice

• Donald Li as Eddie in Big Trouble in Little China(1986)

• Laurence Fishburne as Lt. Charlie Stobbs in Red Heat(1988)

• Joseph Siravo as Vincent Taglialucci in Carlito's Way(1993)

• Chazz Palminteri as Sonny in A Bronx Tale (1993)

• Sidney Poitier as Donald Crease in Sneakers (1992)

• Robert Redford as Martin Bishop in Sneakers (1992)

• Daniel Villarreal as Ray in Speed(1994)

• City Of God

• Sheri Moon Zombie as Deborah Myers in Halloween (2007)

• Peter McRobbie as Agent John Hanlon in In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders(1988)

• Lawrence Montaigne as Ubermann in Escape to Witch Mountain

• Ed Lauter as Shriker in Death Wish 3

• Isabelle Fuhrman as Esther in Orphan (2009)

• Clayne Crawford as John Taylor in The Perfect Host (2010)

Television

• The Professionals

• Chicago Police Department detectives in Crime Story (1986-1988)

• Steven Keats as Jack Rivers in Miami Vice (1984-1989)

• Jack Lord as Steve McGarret and other characters in Hawaii Five-O (1968)

• James MacArthur as Danny "Danno" Williams in Hawaii Five-O (1968-1979)

• Kam Fong as Chin Ho in Hawaii Five-0 (1968)

• Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday in Dragnet

• Edward Furlong as Shane Casey and Jason Earl Carter as the 'peep show guy' in CSI: NY (episode: "Raising Shane")

• Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan in Law & Order (1990 - 2010)

• Jerry Orbach as Detective Lenny Briscoe on Law & Order (1990 - 2010)

• Skip Sudduth as Officer John "Sully" Sullivan in Third Watch (1999 - 2005)

• Eric Wareheim as himself in Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

• Monk (2002-2009)

• Ingrid Chauvin as Marie Kermeur in "Dolmen"

• Bailey Chase as Jason Clark Battle in Criminal Minds (2005 - ?)

• Haven (2010-present)

• Guns (2008)

• Eugene Roche as Luther Gillis in Magnum P.I. (1980-1988)

• Mike O'Malley as Officer Stuart Daniels in My Name is Earl (S1E22)

• Giovanni Ribisi as Ralph in My Name is Earl (S2E05)

• Alison Brie as Annie Edison in Community (S2E19)

Anime

• In Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman, the character Ryu found a broken one in an antique store, and used it as the base for the laser gun he built for himself, which he dubbed a "Smith and Wesson-style Magna Blaster".

• Used by The Laughing Man in Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex during his abduction of Ernest Serano on live TV.

• Seen briefly in the opening of Gunsmith Cats

• Used by Elroy, a hitman hired by Hotel Moscow in Black Lagoon

• Used by Takashi Komuro in High School of the Dead

• A nickel-plated model appears on several occasions in Eden of the East and Eden of the East the Movie I: King of Eden

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 Model 649, stainless variant of the Model 49 - .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
The Family (Città violenta)	Charles Bronson	Jeff Heston		1970
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
An Innocent Man	Tom Selleck	Jimmie Rainwood	Model 649	1989
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
Miami Vice, "Shadow in the Dark" (S03E06)	Jack Thibeau	Lt. Ray Gilmore	Model 649	1986
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.