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09-04-2010, 05:48 AM
Al Pacino's Scarface machine gun up for auction
The machine gun that Al Pacino used in the 1983 film Scarface and which his character referred to as "my little friend" is expected to fetch £100,000 at auction.
Published: 5:30PM BST 03 Sep 2010
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01708/al_1708082c.jpg
The Hollywood star, who played Tony Montana in the gangster movie, was a method actor and insisted his weapon was the correct weight – so he used a real M-16A1 machine gun.
In the film, he said the line "say hello to my little friend" before killing four rival gunmen with it.
At the time the weapon was a live firing fully automatic machine gun and grenade launcher. It was also wielded by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 film Predator.
Following the death of actor Brandon Lee, who was accidentally shot by a live round fired from a pistol on a film set in 1993, the US banned automatic weapons in filming.
As a result Pacino's weapon was retired and was privately bought from the props company that owned it by collector Kevin Martin 12 years ago.
It has since been recast and made perfectly safe and is now coming up on general sale for the first time
The sale is being held by RM Auctions in Indiana, US on Saturday.
A spokesman for RM Auctions said: "The gun comes with letter of authenticity from the weapons coordinator on Scarface.
"It is one of the most recognisable props in film history, certainly the most recognisable gun in film history with its very own often imitated catchphrase."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7980025/Al-Pacinos-Scarface-machine-gun-up-for-auction.html
Steve
The machine gun that Al Pacino used in the 1983 film Scarface and which his character referred to as "my little friend" is expected to fetch £100,000 at auction.
Published: 5:30PM BST 03 Sep 2010
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01708/al_1708082c.jpg
The Hollywood star, who played Tony Montana in the gangster movie, was a method actor and insisted his weapon was the correct weight – so he used a real M-16A1 machine gun.
In the film, he said the line "say hello to my little friend" before killing four rival gunmen with it.
At the time the weapon was a live firing fully automatic machine gun and grenade launcher. It was also wielded by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 film Predator.
Following the death of actor Brandon Lee, who was accidentally shot by a live round fired from a pistol on a film set in 1993, the US banned automatic weapons in filming.
As a result Pacino's weapon was retired and was privately bought from the props company that owned it by collector Kevin Martin 12 years ago.
It has since been recast and made perfectly safe and is now coming up on general sale for the first time
The sale is being held by RM Auctions in Indiana, US on Saturday.
A spokesman for RM Auctions said: "The gun comes with letter of authenticity from the weapons coordinator on Scarface.
"It is one of the most recognisable props in film history, certainly the most recognisable gun in film history with its very own often imitated catchphrase."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7980025/Al-Pacinos-Scarface-machine-gun-up-for-auction.html
Steve