Police Python 357

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Police Python 357 File:Polyce python cover.jpg Original French Poster Country France West Germany Directed by Alain Corneau Release Date 1976 Language French Studio Albina Productions TIT Filmproduktion GmbH Main Cast Character Actor Inspector Marc Ferrot Yves Montand Commissioner Victor Ganay François Périer Thérèse Ganay Simone Signoret Sylvia Leopardi Stefania Sandrelli Inspector Ménard Mathieu Carrière Inspector Abadie Vadim Glowna

Police Python 357 is a French film starring Yves Montand as Inspector Marc Ferrot. It is named after the eponymous revolver.

The following weapons were used in the film Police Python 357:

Handguns

Colt Python

The Python is displayed prominently throughout the film. We can see it from the main titles:

Colt Python with 4" Barrel and factory wood grips - .357 Magnum

Ferrot (Yves Montand) trains at the range, using several different positions.

Ferrot (Yves Montand ) uses the revolver in the final shootout, during the armored car robbery.

Note that, in this pic, the cylinder holes are not completely round. Maybe a blank gun was used in this scene.

Walther PP

Commissaire Ganay's (François Périer) personal handgun is a Walther PP.

Astra Cub

An Astra Cub is seen in hands of Thérèse Ganay (Simone Signoret).

Astra Cub - .25 ACP

MAC Mle 1950

In the final scene Inspector Ménard (Mathieu Carrière) carries a MAC Mle 1950 pistol.

French MAS Mle 1950 pistol - 9x19mm Parabellum.

MAB Model D

In the final scene police officers use MAB Model D pistols.

MAB Model D - .32 ACP

M1911

At the beginning of the movie, we can see several long guns and handguns in a gun rack, in Ferrot’s house. The handgun at the left looks like a M1911. Note that the gun has a lanyard loop.

M1911 - .455 Webley, a licensed handgun to the British Armed Forces during and after World War 1, later issued to members of the R.A.F. and Royal Navy

A thief in church carries an M1911-style pistol, possibly the same movie prop.

Smith & Wesson Model 10

Another gun in the gun rack looks like a Smith & Wesson Model 10

Smith & Wesson Model 10 - .38 Special

CZ 27

A CZ 27 is also seen in the gun rack.

Czech CZ27 Pistol - 7.65mm

Submachine gun

MAT-49

Both the police officers and the robbers use MAT-49 SMGs in the final shootout.

MAT-49 - 9x19mm

Shotguns

High Standard Flite King

A High Standard Flite King shotgun is seen in Ferrot's gun rack.

Rifles

M1 Carbine

While two robbers are armed with MAT-49s, the third one uses a M1 Carbine. M1 Carbines with sniper scopes are seen in hands of police snipers.

The Modern Manufactured version of the M1 Carbine, with standard stock, from Auto-Ordnance. Chambered in .30 Carbine

Unidentified Rifle

A bolt action rifle is seen in Ferrot's gun rack.

Trivia

At the beginning of the movie, we see that Ferrots handloads his own ammo at his reloading bench.

He even casts his bullets.