Blue Steel

Movie poster

Country	United States
Directed by	Kathryn Bigelow
Release Date	1989
Language	English
Studio	Lightning Pictures
Distributor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Main Cast
Character	Actor
Officer Megan Turner	Jamie Lee Curtis
Detective Nick Mann	Clancy Brown
Eugene Hunt	Ron Silver
Robber	Tom Sizemore
Frank Turner	Philip Bosco
Jenkins	Richard Dawson
Asst. Chief Stanley Hoyt	Kevin Dunn
Police Superintendent	Mike Starr

Blue Steel is a 1989 thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and starring Jamie Lee Curtis as Megan Turner, a rookie NYPD cop who must track down a crazed Wall Street trader (Ron Silver) who has gone on a killing spree with a gun he found at Turner's first shootout.

The following weapons were used in the film Blue Steel:

WARNING! THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS!

Pistols

M1911

At the beginning of the film, we see police officers undergoing training for a hostage situation. A simulated scene of domestic abuse is used, with the "husband" holding a (most likely unloaded) M1911 to his "wife's" head and threatening her.

Colt M1911 - .45 ACP

The "husband" holding an M1911 against the head of his "wife."

Unidentified Pistol

As part of the simulation, after the trainees "kill" the faux husband (they fire blanks and he falls down), the faux wife pulls an automatic pistol from her purse, "killing" the trainees if they're not quick enough.

The "wife" pulls her gun from her purse. This is the only decent view of it; the shots of her firing it are dark and suffer from motion blur making a decent screen cap difficult. Judging by the 1911-like take-down lever, the overall size, and the film era, the Colt Mustang is a likely possibility.

Revolvers

Smith & Wesson Model 29

A Smith & Wesson Model 29 is one of the main guns in the film. Originally belonging to "Wool Cap" (Tom Sizemore) a robber who uses it to hold up a grocery store, it finds its way into the hands of mentally unbalanced Wall Street trader Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver), after the criminal is shot and killed by Officer Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis). Eugene appropriates the gun and subsequently goes on a killing spree with it.

Smith & Wesson Model 29 - .44 Magnum

Wool Cap (Tom Sizemore) holds the S&W on the grocery store counterman.

Wool Cap holds the Model 29 up in mock surrender when told to give himself up.

After Wool Cap is shot by Turner, the revolver lands beside Eugene.

Eugene stares in rapt fascination at the gun after taking it home. He behaves here as though he's never even seen a gun before.

The Smith & Wesson Model 29 sitting on Eugene's table.

Prior to committing his first murder, Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver) takes the gun with him to work and points it at his own reflection in the men's restroom.

Smith & Wesson Model 10 HB

Officer Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) uses a heavy-barrel Smith & Wesson Model 10 with Pachmayr rubber grips as her duty sidearm for most of the film.

Smith & Wesson Model 10 HB (heavy barrel) revolver with black rubber grips - .38 Special

Turner's sidearm in her holster. Note Pachmayr grips.

Officer Turner with her revolver out sneaking in through the backdoor of the supermarket to foil the robbery in progress.

Closeup of the barrel of Turner's S&W.

The crazed Eugene (Ron Silver) encourages Turner to put her gun to his head.

Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis), realizing Eugene is the ".44 Magnum Killer", points her gun at him.

Later, Turner appropriates another officer's Smith & Wesson Model 10 to use against Eugene in the final gunfight. She checks to see that the other cop's sidearm is loaded.

An injured Turner takes refuge behind a pickup truck during the firefight.

With one arm shot, Turner reloads her revolver by sticking the barrel into the waistband of her pants and putting the bullets into the cylinder that way.