According to Wyatt Earp it was not about speed, rather, it was about steadiness and best aim. Interesting too that he said in his day no-one would have ever thought of fanning his pistol as he shot. This, he wrote, was an invention of Hollywood. Cheers!
When I say that I learned to take my time in a gunfight, I do not wish to be misunderstood, for the time to be taken was only that split fraction of a second that means the difference between deadly accuracy with a sixgun and a miss.
That's what Bob Munden says too .. Quick Draw Gun fights were Invented by Hollywood . Yet Quick Draw Gun fights are in most every Western Cowboy Movie .
You might check out Jay Silverheels (played Tonto in the Lone Ranger TV series). As for Audie Murphy, his neighbor once accused Audie of taking a shot at him. At his trial, Audie denied doing any such thing, saying, "If I'd shot at him, I wouldn't have missed."
Jay Silverheels was at the other end of the opening shootout in Gunsmoke. They had to keep retaking the opening because he was so much faster than James Arnes
I'm not surprised. I saw him demonstrate it on it was either Johnny Carson or Ed Sullivan. He was fast! And, when you watch that opening, you can hear a shot go off just ahead of Jim Arnes'.
@@GaryMonfeli Sorry, that wasn't Jay Silverheels that kept outdrawing Arness in the opening. It was Glenn Strange, who played Sam the Bartender on the show (And Frankenstein's monster a couple times). Why would they bring in Jay Silverheels just to film him until he finally lost?
They actually had contests for this back in the 1960s. Various western stars and actors would compete under some rules and they raised funds for charity if I recall. The winner of one of these, I think the first one, was Peter Brown who played the deputy on Lawman.
One of those celebrity charity drawing & shooting contests had Glenn Ford as the quickest draw and Ben Johnson as the best marksman with a six shooter. They placed second in the competition they didn’t win.
Just watched "Ride a Crooked Trail" the other night. He was so fast it almost looked like the gun materialized in his hand, straight from the holster. And, yes, I'm a Murphy fan.
@@chars1184yeah but he was the one who said he was that fast. He was a guest contributor at that western magazine, so take it with a grain of salt.I’ve found that among the actors who claimed to be the fastest, most of them weren’t. The actors who were really fast let their actions in front of the camera say it all.
@@petersearls4443 He was timed so he didn’t just say it. Also there’s a scene in a Big Valley episode where the three brothers draw simultaneously. Peter Breck draws BOTH of his guns while Lee Majors and Richard Long only draw one. The director had him do that because he was faster than the other actors and drawing both slowed him down just enough.
Dale Robertson(Jim Hardy in Tales of Wells Fargo) was also a lefty. He was actually ambidextrous in real life and decided to draw from the left on the show just to be a bit different from the usual. He demonstrates his ambidextrous abilities on the show -- whenever he writes it's with the right hand.
@@tablature6121 Interesting . As I posted on the Hickok comment an erudite guy I knew who read and studied this stuff said that Wild Bill Hickok was ambidextrous and that was what made him dangerous .
@@dagnabbit6187 Probably true. Most pictures of him armed show him with 2 pistols -- one on each side --but never holstered, only stuck in a belt or a sash with butt out, "cavalry style."
Audie Murphy also grew up in a poor family and as a child he also hunted for the family to eat, so he was very familiar with firearms from a young age.
He didn’t learn how to use an SAA until Jimmy Cagney brought to stay at his house in Hollywood, because he believed he had a future in westerns. When he arrived he went out and purchased two SAA pistols and practiced until he became very good. He was definitely one of the fastest actors.
Not just "fast". Extraordinarily accurate "wing shooter"; at least according to a biography of Audie that I read. Which makes sense, considering his background during the Great Depression and the absolute necessity to make every single (costly) bullet count, for food. Another in this class - same reasons? - Annie Oakley.
that hunting background has NOTHING to do with fast draw nor skill with handguns. You might as well be a bowler and "think' that makes you a skilled tennis player!
@@SonnyCrocket-p6h Your right about hunting having nothing with fast draw. But not only was Audie fast but he was accurate also. And the experience of hunting and war got him that way, so it helped.
@@SonnyCrocket-p6h It kept Audie alive, throughout World War II. He was one of the tiny handful of his very active combat group who came through the non-stop action intact.
Hi Phillip it’s Pete Searls, Ben’s nephew. Been a long time. I’ve put up some clips of Ben doing fast draws and spinning. I am also the person who did the timings for this clip. Just look for Ben’s name and fast draw you should find them.
I read in a Western magazine one time that. The guy in black that James Arness shots in the opening. Was the weapons expert who provided the guns. And taught a lot of them how to handle the guns and shoot.
I REMEMBER THIS MAN ONCE SAYING THAT FOR SO MANY YRS/EPISODES HE WONDERED HOW HE COULD BEAT ARNES TO THE DRAW AND STILL LOSE EVERY TIME. I'M SURE TIME LAPSE MADE ARNES AS FAST AS HE APPEARED TO BE
Arvo Ojala. He invented the "buscadero" rig so many walk-and-shoot scenes called for. Peter Breck (Nick Barkley) and Peter Brown (Ranger Chad Cooper, Laredo) were fast, but the fastest were Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis Jr. (Davis was quite the pistol-handler.)
Glenn Ford made a Western called the Desperadoes. He then joined the US Marines (post Pearl Harbor). During Basic training his Sergeant made him recreate a fancy shot he had done in the movie. Ford tried to explain about Hollywood special effects the Sergeant didn’t care & he made Ford endlessly repeat the shot until he got it right.
Glen Ford had a special belt made for himself in front of his holster he had a thick piece of leather so he could cock the hammer with it,you can see it in this video if you pause it just right you will see his gun shooting sideways.
The Late Bob Munden had them all beat, though not all of his records have full documentation. His fast draw was a record .175. In .25 he could fire twice and hit two balloons 6 feet apart.
I have seen Bob Munden twice in person do his fast draw show along with his wife. He would show what some of the actor's speed was compared to his own. He also was very accurate shooter.
I herd years ago that when all the actors were timed now mind you I'm 69yrs Old so I've seen alot of westerns My favorite being Charles Bronson but it was said Sammy Davis Jr was the fastest
When I was a kid, I use to go to a shoe repair shop in Venice Calif, where the owner was a man by the name of Nick Nacastro. His shop walls had hundreds of pictures with him and a lot of the western stars of the day. He was (to my understanding) the fastest quick draw in the US., and he trained a lot of the western stars. As I remember, his speed was 0.04 of a second (I think, 65 years ago) In the opening shot of Gunsmoke, he was the man in black facing James Arness. Also I remember Sammy Davis also having this skill. Great Video, and wonderful to see them listed like this. Thank You!
@@petersearls4443 Right, and Ohala was probably the fastest ever. From his Wiki bio: " His speed was clocked and verified a number of times. He could draw, fire, and hit the target in one-sixth of a second, faster than the eye can blink." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvo_Ojala
I heard a story once about Audie Murphy, he was on set of a movie when another big name actor, kept picking at him about who was fastest, Murphy got tired of it, and said ok, but they'd use real bullets, that ended the teasing. 😅😅😅
Wyatt Earp said "the deadliest gunfighter is the one who takes his time. The first guy to draw is usually jumpy and misses. A good gunfighter will draw the same speed regardless of who he's facing. He takes the same amount of time. He doesn't waste time, he keeps a cool head and takes his time."
@@StevenMoney Maybe but it's hard to say because there were a number of cool customers back then. Bat Masterson being one of them. Luke Short was said to be real quick. Out on a street is one thing but in the Mountains the real Jeremiah Johnson would be my choice. Remember the very best gunfighters were not out looking for each other and only an idiot wanted a piece of Elfago Baca. Nobody in their right mind tangled with this lawman out of New Mexico.
@@timmytwodogs I knew guys who served with Murphy...Egotitstical and smug for sure. Also heroic. Also suffered mightily from combat PTSD the rest of his adult life.
He could also be very mean. My uncle Ben Cooper worked with Audie on Arizona Raiders. He said Audie would walk up behind someone and stick his SAA in their back. Then using a second SAA he would fire a blank in the air as he pulled the trigger on the pistol in their back.
Yeah you consider he perfected the art of gun juggling and the guy also was an accomplished tap dancer, singer, actor, etc. He should of did a tap dance while twirling his pistol 😂
Murphy was the most Decorated American Soldier in WW2. but the fastest draw in Hollywood was Sammy Davis Jr, followed closely by Steve McQueen's Brother, can't recall his name, but he was a Stuntman...
A number of years ago a western based channel wanted to know who was the fastest gun. Their final answer was Gene Wilder in the movie Blazing Saddles. He shoot guns from the hands of 6 men with pulled guns and he was so fast you don't see him draw! That ended their search!
Anything can go faster (or slower) while watching film - depending on the frames per second you're viewing. And in real world fights involving guns, you don't fire one shot and then see how well that works - you shoot the enemy right into the ground before you stop shooting to reload. Most actors handling firearms in movies get professional training from people who used firearms for a living. Editing can't fix everything... and they probably know there's lots of cops, competitive shooters, and veterans who have been to the two way gun range in the audience. Some are better students than others, some have more interest in firearms than others. Sammi Davis Jr., Tom Sellick, and Keano Reeves are three that were enthusiastic and diligent students. Baldwin proved that he was among the worst. Watching shooting live is something else again. I saw Bob Munden shoot numerous times at exhibitions here in Montana where he lived. He was a top competitor in fast draw competition for quite a while. Then there's Jerry Miculek whose made his living as a pro shooter in action shooting for decades - and he's still a threat in competition in his senior citizen years... age hasn't slowed him down too much. Munden and Miculek appeared in different segments of a TV series that showed incredible shooting with handgun, rifle, and longbow. 1.88 seconds to knock down six steel plates at 15 yards, starting with hands head high (instead of just above the gun grip as with fast draw competition), using ammunition powerful enough to knock the plates over. Miculek did that at age 69 to set a new world record for shooting revolvers... ruclips.net/video/pAlbzLp8CPg/видео.htmlsi=1LWC1rmpRv0kWk1T&t=178
Yes editing can fix many a poor draw. Ben Cooper who made a lot of westerns in the fifties and sixties practiced for two to three hours a day for a couple of years to achieve his prowess with an SAA,both fast draw and spinning. Here are a few clips. ruclips.net/video/Zd1f1Yj0wFw/видео.htmlsi=vi0ZFKE1DCrel7LL ruclips.net/video/iAMgkiR4Dxw/видео.htmlsi=LM9SjX309Ojc6p3U ruclips.net/video/rRAFg2a6dxw/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Respectfully anyone can have fast hands the real trick is reaction time. Think of a race that is 2 meters. The winner will not necessarily be the fastest runner but the fastest reaction when the gun sounds because it's only 2 steps and finish line. Same in fast draw. The average person's reaction time is .20 to .25. You can have Ben Foster or Jerry Lewis fast hands but do you have a fast reaction time??? Ben Foster did not get timed from light flash to draw and fire or if he did it was unremarkable. Fast hands with a normal reaction time is just a quick .40; about like Glenn Ford but not super fast. Jerry Lewis did and he was the fastest of the Hollywood actors. O'Brien was clocked at a fast .25 from signal to hit target and he was slower than Lewis and Sammy Davis.
@@bunkerman99Back in the fifties most of the timers weren’t started with a light, they were self started timers. The shooter would hold his finger on a button. When he picked it up the timer would start, when the target was hit it would stop. Dee Woolem had it created so that he could see how fast his draw was. That led to the 1954 contest at Knott’s Berry Farm between all of the guys who worked stunts at the Farm, robbing the passenger train. Dee went on to be the National Fast Draw champ 4 times according to his bio on Wikipedia.
Fast hands are 10% of the equation; the really fast guys have abnormally fast reaction times and that is 90% of the equation. The avg person needs .20 to .25 just to react and the real fast draw is about over with by then. Average reaction times wont cut it. You need to have reaction times in the .08 to .12 range and then have fast hands and accuracy to win.
I had no idea that Sammy Davis Jr. Was that good with a gun. And I guess Clint Eastwood didn't make the count down I love all of his Western Movies. Great content thanks for putting this together it was very cool to see.
2:07 You mention Audie Murphy's military experience, but you didn't give any information about three things that WWII military experience greatly affected about James Arness' western character Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. Arness was one of the first ashore on the beaches at the battle of Anzio, Italy in January 1944. Arness was wounded in both legs by German machine gun fire. He had one bullet go through an ankle and at 6'6" tall it gave him his trademark walk, actually more of a limp on Gunsmoke. He was in constant pain during filming and many breaks had to be taken for him to deal with his extremely painful injuries that there was no cure for at that time, there weren't any artificial replacement joints like there are now. So he was good with all kinds of weapons, not just a wheel gun, but he was fast and accurate in real life from his military training and he had an imposing walk that made him look really mean, even though he was the nicest guy in the world in everyday life.
My best friend when he was alive was Russ Dunham. Hit the beach at Anzio and 185 out of 200 men were casualties that 1st day at Anzio; Arness was in his made up platoon when they consolidated and Arness was in his squad. The Anzio campaign lasted 6 weeks and Russ was the Sgt on the 3rd day who climbed the hills until it was light and attacked a German Gun emplacement and knocked it out and then snaked his men up to knock more guns out. When they were cleaning out the machine gun nests in the grape vines in the area Arness went down like you say and Russ and another man crawled within 8 yards of the guns and dragged Arness to safety and the medics. Russ had 2 Bronze Stars, 3 Silver stars, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor. In his little library there were several pics of Arness giving Russ a bear hug. Arness told the producers of the show Combat to hire my Sgt, He will show your guys how a real combat Sgt in France Acts and they did and Russ enjoyed working with Vic Morrow. I asked Russ what these Sashes were and he said I won two unit citations for the outfit, one when I took a Panzer by myself at the relief of Bastogne. I captured it gun crew and all and surrendered it to our troops with white sheets tied to the barrel and the other was when I took 5 man and assaulted what turned out to be a death camp and we captured it. He always called Arness "Jimmy" and they stayed in touch at reunions and were proud to be 3rd Division men or as they called it The Rock of the Marne.
I once heard Glenn Ford was quite fast. The modern day fast draw was Bob Munden . He was named fastest quick draw in the world. Just very few seconds like 4.2 are somewhere along that amount of time. I saw him draw several times and it was like lightening.
Love the classic westerns .....when I first saw the episode of the Rifleman with Sammy Davis jr. I was amazed how lightning fast he was. An honorable mention would be Peter Brown from the Lawman tv series. He didn't expose it but a couple times but he could smoke that holster too. Great presentation , thanks !
@@davidvance8843I’m sorry but that is pure fiction. He was one of the fastest actors, but he couldn’t even come close to beating someone like Bob Munden.
When I was a kid there was a guy from Rogers Arkansas named Dee Woolem. He wore a cowboy outfit and called his character ‘The Daisy Kid’. He played shows as a fast draw champion which he was. He was four time winner of America’s fastest draw contest championship which was electronically timed (by sound) to one hundredth of a second and had to accurately hit a target. Dee could draw, cock a single action old West style revolver, aim, and fire in 21/100ths of a second! His favorite stage trick was to face someone about a foot apart with their hands body width apart ready to clap. Dee could draw and put the the gun with a click of the trigger up to their chest before they could clap their hands together. I think he was on the TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” showing his quick draw around early 1960’s. There might be a film clip of him on line. Not sure I spelled his name right.
Yup - I saw that episode of "Secret", first time on T.V. (... yeah ... I'm older 🤣.) One of my Mom's favorite programs. 😂 His demonstration was pretty amazing. First - he really didn't "look" like a "gunslinger". And, oh - he was FAST!
Another Fast Draw Champion in the early 1960's was John Dobson or John Dodson. He was from Illinois and could draw and fire a .45 Colt Revolver and hit a target 15 feet away in less than .24 seconds. 🤠
Yes he was an incredible draw. My uncle Ben Cooper who made a lot of westerns in the fifties and sixties used to do that same clap trick with one exception. He would tuck the thumb of his gun hand behind his belt buckle and tell you to clap when you see me draw. They always clapped the barrel.
@@petersearls4443 Peter, always enjoyed your Uncle Ben, never knew how fast he was! Saw him in a "Mannix" episode recently, used an M1 Grand in that one!
@@patrickregan3302 I meant Curry’s fast draw. It was a joke because he didn’t really draw, it was just a cut away and then back and he was pointing his gun. Like he was lightning fast.
Very nicely done. I didn’t think I’d be interested, but this was so well presented. Great music, great choice of scenes, which speak for themselves - and they’re all from my childhood. Too bad Paladin didn’t make the list, but it doesn’t matter, he was incredible. Such a good actor - and so ___ you fill in your own thing. :) 🐺🐎🐦⬛😼✨
If I remember correctly, the person Arness is drawing against in the opening credits of Gunsmoke was the fastest draw in the U S at the time and taught Arness how to draw.
Clint Walker was so big and strong that if going to guns failed, he could just pick you up and take care of things hand-to-hand. I've seen smaller trees than that guy! You can never tell about people, though - and perhaps surprisingly, Walker was a talented song-and-dance man, too - and not just a macho type.
Top guns for sure. Wouldn't it be interesting to imagine this group in a contest such as the one in the movie 'The Quick And The Dead'. My money is on Ford and Murphy.
@@famouspeople63 I think I mentioned this before, but Ford was recognized by Hollywood as their official gunfighter, which was why he was cast in so many westerns as a fast draw gunslinger. 'The Last Challenge' is a rare one that's not seen much, where the plot is centered around an inevitable gunfight, just to prove who's fastest. Same as 'The Fastest Gun Alive'. I always enjoy your western videos and this one is a dandy. Great stuff, appreciate you keeping the wild west alive.
Bob was used to thumbing the single action with live ammunition, which was slower than the fanning style used by the fastest blank competitors. Once introduced to Fast Draw with blanks, he immediately began practicing and developed his own fanning style of draw, shooting thousands of rounds with blank ammunition every week. By 1961 Bob Munden was winning just about every shoot he entered, and eventually set 18 world records, including Fastest Time in the Walk and Draw Level event at 15 hundredths of a second, using a .45 caliber stock-weight Colt.
You tube has videos of Bob Munden where they slowed down the video so you could hear he shot twice hitting balloons 6 ft. apart. At speed it sounds like one shot! It's awesome!
It was said that jay Silverheels of Lone Ranger fame was the fastest in the 50's and 60's. In addition, Jerry Lewis was said to be a fast draw expert as well.
@@petersearls4443 The man who trained Sammy Davis also trained Jerry Lewis. According to him(his last name was Ocala; can't remember his first name, but he trained MANY actors in fast draw), Lewis beat Davis to the draw consistently. Lewis made only one western, a comedy, with Dean Martin, and his character never used a gun, so there are no clips of his prowess
@@mikegrossberg8624 actually Ben Cooper was the first to teach Sammy in the early 50s. Ben went to visit Sammy when he was recovering from the auto accident where he lost his eye. When he arrived Sammy was up, dressed and had his gun rig on wanting to compete. 😃 Here is Ben doing a little spinning. ruclips.net/video/rRAFg2a6dxw/видео.htmlsi=3t52cAfEEOfydO9U
@@douglasmeek9774 Jerry Lewis beat him hands down and 2d to Jerry was Sammy Davis Jr. Fast hands are not enough. Reaction time is everything. The light goes on... draw. The average reaction time is .2 to .25 and by then it's over since Lewis was clocked in under .25 from flash to broken target. Ford was .40. That is not competitive. World record by a pro is .208. Lewis was pro quality
Jelly Bryce was the fastest gun that ever lived. He could draw and fire and hit his target in 2/10ths of a second. A life magazine story on him in 1945 shows him with high-speed camera photos' He has a coin on the back of his hand at waist level. He draws the gun, and the coin hasn't cleared his knees. In his storied law enforcement career, he killed many criminals who had the drop on him. In a competition with the Vice President of Smith and Wesson, The VP of S&W was holding a gun in his hand. Bryce drew and fired before the VP could get a shot off.
Doc, you're right, Mr. Bryce was fast, And lethal! Let's not forget Bill Jordan of the Border Patrol, another real-life gunfighter. Also helped S&W introduce the Combat Magnum! Blsgs, gg
Wow!! Just look at Sammy Davis go! That’s freaking amazing. I’m just gobsmacked :) Gosh, he was so talented. Of the Rat Pack, he and Sinatra were the top singer and actor talents. Dean is second cause was so good with Jerry Lewis.
I've got a feeling when you get to those miniscule microseconds personal attitude is the deciding factor. In other words, not just God-given quickness, but finally fearlessness and total concentration - regardless of the consequences. With that in mind ... Audie Murphy. I definitely want him in combat with me. Also, it would have been fun to see how fast and accurate Bruce Lee could have achieved, had he gone that route.
Way back when I was a kid, Sammy might have been the fatest of the better know Hollywood crowd. After seeing Audey Murphy though, Sammy was definetly slower. I have seen and read about Bob Munden, plus saw the video where they had a gravity measure and reaction time device on his wrist. He was faster than a rattle snake, his mass in motion gun grasp and fire was the fastest ever know or measured. I don't think anyone would every face Munden or Murphy. It would be a certainty that Murphy would naturally kill you.@@davegreene8588
Arvo Ojala was the most famous cowboy holster maker in Hollywood and not only made holsters, he taught many actors how to draw quickly and properly, and was the man who OUTDREW Matt Dillon in the opening scene of "Gunsmoke". He also taught many TV 'gunmen', especially Hugh O'Brian as "Wyatt Earp" in drawing his 'Buntline'. (I shoot some CAS with a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 'Buntline' and it takes a specially made rig and LOTS of practice to get a sub-1-second draw.)
When I was kid I can remember going to my Uncle's Ranch in the Santa Cruz Hills CA. Where he taught many of the Actors in the late 50's and early 60's quick draw. His name was Ron Welch, My dad and I met Clint Eastwood there once when I was 13, that was pretty cool to say the least. Dad would always ask whos the fastest and Uncle would say the camera, the movie parts are all edited. They would train off and on horses for technic with planks to make it look more realistic for the camera, it would save a lot of time on the set.
@@Karvega11 and "Have Gun Will Travel" with Richard Boone A hired gunfighter who lives in a posh hotel in San Francisco. Educated, cultured and polished. Enjoys opera, fine wine, dining, hob nobbing with royalty. Yet is comfortable on the trail or having a whiskey at a saloon. Truly is a morally elite person always part of the dialog. He'll reach into his shirt and pull out his pristine card, "Paladine" , Have Gun Will Travel.( only accessible via telegram or messenger). A class act like no other. Good guy always wears black lol. Note: some incredible varied writers over the seasons notably Sam Peckinpah, Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek), Harry&Julien Fink(Dirty Harry) and many others. Cultured society meets the wild west. Exquisite.
@@Karvega11 The Rifleman is excellent, but when I see a gunfight I wonder how "fairness" can happen when one person is drawing a pistol from a holster, and the other is holding a rifle?
Funny! I noticed at 5:59 in "The Fastest Gun Alive", that's John Doucette as one of the townpeople, his face is recognizable as the first man standing on the left looking where the shattered beer glass fell after Glenn Ford's shot. Ha! I wrote my first comment before I watched this video. Caught me by surprize! 😯
Sam Peckinpah loved to showcase shooting skills. He originally wanted at the opening of the Rifleman show for Chuck Conners to gun down 14 bad guys in the town of North Fork. His writers talked him out of it and he settled for Chuck Conners to empty his Winchester and not show what he was shooting at. 🤠
He had Bruce Gellar write an episode of his series The Westerner specifically for my uncle Ben Cooper because of his speed and gun handling abilities. It was called Hand on the Gun and can be found on RUclips.
I had heard he was the fastest actor in Hollywood. That's what Bob Munden said and he trained most of the gunslingers. He was the fastest man that ever lived.
@@rogerkruse7121 not just fast , Munden was uncommonly accurate , hip shooting a winchester at a moving target and hitting a target at 200 feet with a snub nose revolver.
i too have heard for years that Jerry Lewis, funny man and gun collector, was judged to be the fastest gun draw of all the actors 🙂 counter-intuitive for a comedian to be the bad ass, the baddest ass, but life is funny that way sometimes 😜 and Sammy Davis Jr. was number 2, second fastest gun hand among actors! there you have it, Lewis and Davis, the very best 🙂👍🏼 maybe you should fix your video 🤔
@@thegolfnut812 think it was a documentary I seen. It could've been a book. I do a lot of different "Research" into various things. I have a lot of interests. I'm sure you could find the info off youtube. I'm an army veteran, and I hunt. So naturally I looked into some of the Army's greatest Soliders.
My uncle was a marine in WW2 who fought in the Solomon Islands campaigns. He finally got wounded by shrapnel during an island landing and nearly died before recovering in an island hospital. He had PTSD his whole life after the war.
Michael Landon as Joe Cartwright on Bananza, Lee Majors as Health Barclay on Big Valley, and Robert Conrad on Wild Wild West all looked pretty fast in their fast draws.
Audi Murphy was presented Colt's SAA revolvers during a tour of the factory. On his arrival in Hollywood, he stayed with James Cagney in his pool house. Audie used to take his Colt's behind the Hollywood hills and practice until his fingers bled. He was given a custom rig made by Arvo Ojala. By any standards, Murphy was formidable with a gun.
I remember that episode with Sammy Davis. He was really impressive. I thought he was fastest so I appreciate your enlightenment. Never would have guessed Audie Murphy but no surprise really. I used to strap up for my showdown with Matthew on Gunsmoke. A lot of practice and I still remember my older brother saying, "you got him".😅 What a rush... Of course I was a kid so the weight was probably equal. Not everything was made of plastic back then. lol
I agree with those who say Terrence Hill should be added to the list. One name I don't see in the comments so far and who was a very fast draw was James Garner ("Maverick").
Arvil Ojala would have been a good addition. While he was mostly a background actor (Who Dillon shoots in the Gunsmoke opening) was also a fantastic armorer and taught almost everyone else in this piece how to draw and shoot.
Correct. Arvo had an unofficial world record in draw . His draw was 1/6 of a second . In actual wild west it did NOT matter much how fast somebody was. Many gunslingers were either ambushed or shot to back . Names like Wild Bill , Wes Hardin, Ben Thompson and Morgan Earp comes to mind. They all died that way. Rudi Rafael
@@jyrkikk Very true and thank you for correcting my spelling of his name. Ironically, the only documented "classic show down" was Wild Bill... considering his end. There were a few notable running gunfights where coolness under fire was the key. Bass Reeves and Wyatt Earp were two examples that come to mind. In Earp's case he was very fast but to buffalo an opponent. When it came to six-gun shootouts, Earp had two. One in KS (before Tombstone) where he was under fire by a dude with a rifle from some distance. It's reported that he dropped to one knee, took aim and dropped the attacker with a single shot. At the gunfight in Tombstone, it is said he didn't move while everyone else was jockeying for position. There are two quotes attributed to him though I'm not sure which goes with which incident. One was, "I took my time, in a hurry." I personally believe that was related to the KS shooting. The other was, "Fast is fine but accuracy is final." That seems to fit the Tombstone shootout. In my mind anyway. But looking back through 140 years and not to mentioning the years of dramatic promotion from even the contemporaries makes it impossible to know which was which. I know we're off topic now but since I got on Wyatt Earp, it's interesting that he's famous for being a ruthless gunman. I believe there's only four people he's known to shoot as far as I remember. The man in KS (whose name escapes me), I think he was "credited" with Billy Clanton (but I'm not sure), Frank Spence (ambush) and Curly Bill (Iron Springs). Also, Virgil was far more experienced and famous at the time as a lawman. I don't think anyone can argue he was not cool under fire though.
Supposedly Peter breck, well-known for play Nick Barkley on the The Big Valley, clocked in at 16/100th of a second, which I believe would have made him the fastest of all, yet he's not mentioned here.
It was said that Ladd didn't even like guns or like handling them. If you notice, in the scene where he turns and shoots the guy up on the balcony in the bar, his gun isn't even pointed in the right direction.
@@williamh3823 - Leonard Leroy Lee, He'll be 91 yrs old come this July 29th. Too bad he didn't use his middle name "Leroy" in there some where, as every Leroy I ever knew was a tough SOB! As I suspect he is also! 🙂 🙂
I am always amazed at Audie Murphy's acting skills. His characters, as you say, are plausible. I also appreciated that no matter how bad his finances got ( and he did have to declare bankruptcy), he never took a job hawking cigarettes or liquor.
In the opening scenes of the early "Gunsmoke" episodes (not the later ones where Matt Dillion is shooting while riding his horse at full speed) the outlaw James Arness draws against was portrayed by the man who taught him quick draw, I believe.
I'd be interested to know what Tom Selleck did in "Quigley Down Under", especially in the shootout near the end w/Alan Rickman. Great movie IMO....Especially given all the L'Amour Westerns he'd starred in.
I heard Hugh O'Brian was the fastest in Hollywood. The big trick to fast draws was the film was cut and sped up during the draw. So who can really say watching film clips.
Only if the actor was not capable of doing it on their own. By the 50’s and 60s most of the time if the actor wasn’t fast enough the scene would be edited. Ex: showing the good guy going for his gun, cut to the bad guy, cut back to the good guy as he was firing the gun. To see fast actors look for scenes where you can see that the actor was the person making the draw and there are no cuts away from him.
Did anyone ever see just how fast Audie Murphy was in the movie Night Passage with James Stewart? There is a scene where Audie’s character is talking to a young member of the outlaw gang. Audie has his hand a horse stall post, the youngster who had been bragging about outshooting a man and taking his gun belt and guns. Audie tell him to draw, Audie’s hand was so fast you hardly saw it as he pulled his gun out of the holster. And the man was a real life bad ass as well. He won every medal our country could give him, plus 2 from France and 1 from Belgium. All before he was 19 years old. I read a story once from a actor (sorry don’t remember name) he was in several movies with Audie, but he and Audie were in this movie together and it required this actor to grow his hair long. They had went to this bar and ordered rum and coke I believe, but Audie kept pushing over his rum to the other actor and was only drinking coke. This big man came in and started harassing them, in particular the actor with the long hair. They tried to ignore him but he kept on and finally got up from his table and came up to that actor, and yanked his head back by his hair. Audie didn’t say a word, he just got up and cold cocked that man right in the jaw. That man went down like a ton of bricks and didn’t get up. Audie calmly sat back down and finished his coke. That’s how badass he was. Audie wasn’t a big man, but that man could fight. I wish I could remember that actors name who told that story. He usually played bad guys in Western films. If ever there was anyone whom I’d want in a fight, it would be Audie Murphy.
I was glad to see Glen Ford on here because he was deadly fast in the movie "The Fastest Gun Alive". But the other two people who were fast in shows that I would have liked to see on here was Little Joe from the show "Bonanza" and Mannon a character from three of the episodes of the show "Gunsmoke". I remember Ms. Kitty talking to Festus about Mannon and she said: "Matt will get'em". And Festus said back to Ms. Kitty: "Ms. Kitty, I've seen Matthew draw and I've seen him. And you couldn't get any quicker if you took a snake's tongue and tied it with greased lighting". And he was faster than Matt Dillon. The character Mannon was played by actor Steve Forrest. He also played in another Gunsmoke episode as a character called: "The Widowmaker" and he was just as fast as that character as he was as the character Mannon.
Jack Elam was probably Audie Murphy's best friend. He said that he could sometimes outdraw Audie but he could never out shoot him. Hugh O'Brien, from the Wyatt Earp TV series,. was also fast. He wanted have a quick draw contest to proved who was the fastest movie cowboy. Audie said sure, so long as we use real bullets. (No takers)
@@Emanonik Damn those are excellent Dale Robertson westerns. Especially 'Day Of Fury', which featured Jock Mahoney, and 'The Silver Whip', which featured Rory Calhoun. Great stuff for sure 👍
@@Emanonik true……I read that in 2 or 3 different articles which mentioned that to be the case . Unless someone has first hand info from the man himself it would be taking the word of a few writers. Entertaining either way .
Interesting note, Steve McQueen almost got fired from the magnificent 7, he would go off script to draw attention to himself. The scene where he dips water out of the creek in his hat from horse back wasn't scripted, but they did like it and left it
The scene where he is riding in the wagon with a double barrel shotgun and he shakes the shotgun shells before he puts them into the shotgun. It was said that his 'scene-stealing' behavior did not endear him to fellow actors. LOL
@@petersearls4443 In that shot he was literally dropping his shoulder as he was raising his barrel , then fired. It doubled his speed .... well above the rest !!!
@@rocknfan100 he practiced 2 to 3 hours a day for years to get that good. He was the first to teach Sammy Davis jr. to fast draw, before he lost his eye in the car accident.
Don't recall where I read it, but it was published that in the 60's that Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis was two of the fastest fast draw competition drawers ever in that arena,
@shastaham7630.dont forget Jerry Lewis in actor 1956quick draw when Sammy an Jerry both beat Hugh Obrians 0.25 sec. Both of thier times weren't recorded some believe it was Race , black an Jerry Jewish !
Dont matter if eastwood or john wayne were fast they would DRAW the biggest crowds FAST
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Back in my youth we used to practice it a lot. One observation. Many of these actors drop their shoulder when drawing. You'll never be the fastest if you do that. Keep that shoulder still.
Actually, the shoulder drop at the right time helps move the pistol up and forward. My uncle Ben Cooper was faster than any of the actors that get mentioned regularly and he would use a slight dip of the shoulder. At the right time and in the right position it would rotate the gun up and forward.
Hehehe whatever you want to believe. I saw it in action with him many times. He was the first to teach Sammy Davis in the early fifties, look for Ben Cooper outlaws son. You will see the slight dip I’m talk8ng about.
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@@petersearls4443 We used ROTC classes over a period of 4 years with an average of 18 participants per year (Texas A&M 1978-82). So I'm not guessing. We also did the Lee Harvey Oswald shot by pulling an old Caddy with a Maintainer (road grader) via a very long cable. 63 out of 72 of us bettered LHOs shot on JFK.
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According to Wyatt Earp it was not about speed, rather, it was about steadiness and best aim. Interesting too that he said in his day no-one would have ever thought of fanning his pistol as he shot. This, he wrote, was an invention of Hollywood. Cheers!
Wyatt earp also said he was afraid of only one man.that man was bat Masterson, he always kept his head and rarely ever missed
You left out my favorite John Wayne
When I say that I learned to take my time
in a gunfight, I do not wish to be
misunderstood, for the time to be taken was
only that split fraction of a second that means
the difference between deadly accuracy with a
sixgun and a miss.
That's what Bob Munden says too .. Quick Draw Gun fights were Invented by Hollywood . Yet Quick Draw Gun fights are in most every Western Cowboy Movie .
He's also credited as saying "Take your time. In a hurry."
You might check out Jay Silverheels (played Tonto in the Lone Ranger TV series). As for Audie Murphy, his neighbor once accused Audie of taking a shot at him. At his trial, Audie denied doing any such thing, saying, "If I'd shot at him, I wouldn't have missed."
Jay Silverheels was at the other end of the opening shootout in Gunsmoke. They had to keep retaking the opening because he was so much faster than James Arnes
I'm not surprised. I saw him demonstrate it on it was either Johnny Carson or Ed Sullivan. He was fast! And, when you watch that opening, you can hear a shot go off just ahead of Jim Arnes'.
Lone Ranger. BASS REEVES. Shot 12, arrested hundreds.
@@robertwarden8408 Ed Ames throwing a tomahawk on Johnny Carson is one of early TV's funniest moments.
@@GaryMonfeli Sorry, that wasn't Jay Silverheels that kept outdrawing Arness in the opening. It was Glenn Strange, who played Sam the Bartender on the show (And Frankenstein's monster a couple times). Why would they bring in Jay Silverheels just to film him until he finally lost?
I knew about Glen Ford’s speed of hand. The others, however, I did not know about. Thanks for making the video.
They actually had contests for this back in the 1960s. Various western stars and actors would compete under some rules and they raised funds for charity if I recall. The winner of one of these, I think the first one, was Peter Brown who played the deputy on Lawman.
One of those celebrity charity drawing & shooting contests had Glenn Ford as the quickest draw and Ben Johnson as the best marksman with a six shooter. They placed second in the competition they didn’t win.
🥃👴🏻 AWW SHUT UP.
Fastest Hollywood gunslinger was Hugh O'Brien (Wyatt Earp) at .08 seconds
Didn't know that
@@michaeldice7459not a chance. He didn’t even claim he was that fast. He claimed it was .25. No actors were .08.
Just watched "Ride a Crooked Trail" the other night. He was so fast it almost looked like the gun materialized in his hand, straight from the holster. And, yes, I'm a Murphy fan.
Oh, you are a long way from being by yourself... He was real..Hollywood didn't make him.
Saw this movie a few months back as well. I like the old movies and Murphy was a good actor.
I seen on here a list of some of fastest draw actors, Audie was ranked #3, and they said he was the most accurate. So yeah, the was quick.
@@tommypackwood1013 Comes from shooting rabbits in Texas and Germans in the war.
Who was #1?@@tommypackwood1013
Peter Breck (Nick) from the show the Big Valley was pretty quick as well. The instructor that worked with him said he'd never seen anyone faster.
His time is listed in a western magazine. I’ll have look it up, but I believe he was the fastest of all.
1/16th of a second
Yes, Breck was considered one of the fasted
@@chars1184yeah but he was the one who said he was that fast. He was a guest contributor at that western magazine, so take it with a grain of salt.I’ve found that among the actors who claimed to be the fastest, most of them weren’t. The actors who were really fast let their actions in front of the camera say it all.
@@petersearls4443 He was timed so he didn’t just say it. Also there’s a scene in a Big Valley episode where the three brothers draw simultaneously. Peter Breck draws BOTH of his guns while Lee Majors and Richard Long only draw one. The director had him do that because he was faster than the other actors and drawing both slowed him down just enough.
Glad you include Scott Glenn in his gunshooting scene in Silverado. Being a lefty made him unique.
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Dale Robertson(Jim Hardy in Tales of Wells Fargo) was also a lefty. He was actually ambidextrous in real life and decided to draw from the left on the show just to be a bit different from the usual. He demonstrates his ambidextrous abilities on the show -- whenever he writes it's with the right hand.
@@tablature6121 Interesting . As I posted on the Hickok comment an erudite guy I knew who read and studied this stuff said that Wild Bill Hickok was ambidextrous and that was what made him dangerous .
@@dagnabbit6187 Probably true. Most pictures of him armed show him with 2 pistols -- one on each side --but never holstered, only stuck in a belt or a sash with butt out, "cavalry style."
W/RESPECT, MOVIE SCENES ARE JUST THAT AND DO NOT W/NECESSITY REPRESENT THE ABILITY OF THE ACTOR
Audie Murphy also grew up in a poor family and as a child he also hunted for the family to eat, so he was very familiar with firearms from a young age.
He didn’t learn how to use an SAA until Jimmy Cagney brought to stay at his house in Hollywood, because he believed he had a future in westerns. When he arrived he went out and purchased two SAA pistols and practiced until he became very good. He was definitely one of the fastest actors.
Not just "fast". Extraordinarily accurate "wing shooter"; at least according to a biography of Audie that I read. Which makes sense, considering his background during the Great Depression and the absolute necessity to make every single (costly) bullet count, for food. Another in this class - same reasons? - Annie Oakley.
that hunting background has NOTHING to do with fast draw nor skill with handguns. You might as well be a bowler and "think' that makes you a skilled tennis player!
@@SonnyCrocket-p6h Your right about hunting having nothing with fast draw. But not only was Audie fast but he was accurate also. And the experience of hunting and war got him that way, so it helped.
@@SonnyCrocket-p6h It kept Audie alive, throughout World War II. He was one of the tiny handful of his very active combat group who came through the non-stop action intact.
Ben Cooper was my Grandfather. He really was incredibly fast. Started teaching me to shoot when I was 8yrs old. I inherited his guns.
Hi Phillip it’s Pete Searls, Ben’s nephew. Been a long time. I’ve put up some clips of Ben doing fast draws and spinning. I am also the person who did the timings for this clip. Just look for Ben’s name and fast draw you should find them.
Ben Cooper, Glenn Ford, Arvo Ojala, and Sammy Davis Jr. Vs. The Earps and Holiday. The Earps and Doc would be slaughtered. 😂
@ checkout Ben Cooper and Glenn Ford, side by side? ruclips.net/video/eLKWe7lD7ac/видео.html
I read in a Western magazine one time that. The guy in black that James Arness shots in the opening. Was the weapons expert who provided the guns. And taught a lot of them how to handle the guns and shoot.
That's correct. His name was Arvo Ojala, and he also made the quick draw rigs for a lot of the stars.
I REMEMBER THIS MAN ONCE SAYING THAT FOR SO MANY YRS/EPISODES HE WONDERED HOW HE COULD BEAT ARNES TO THE DRAW AND STILL LOSE EVERY TIME. I'M SURE TIME LAPSE MADE ARNES AS FAST AS HE APPEARED TO BE
Arvo Ojala. He invented the "buscadero" rig so many walk-and-shoot scenes called for. Peter Breck (Nick Barkley) and Peter Brown (Ranger Chad Cooper, Laredo) were fast, but the fastest were Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis Jr. (Davis was quite the pistol-handler.)
Would that be Arvo Ojala?
He got paid every time as well.
Glenn Ford made a Western called the Desperadoes. He then joined the US Marines (post Pearl Harbor). During Basic training his Sergeant made him recreate a fancy shot he had done in the movie. Ford tried to explain about Hollywood special effects the Sergeant didn’t care & he made Ford endlessly repeat the shot until he got it right.
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Yea, Sgt are like that...
To be honest I don’t think Ford would be stupid enough to do a fast draw with live ammo.
Glen Ford had a special belt made for himself in front of his holster he had a thick piece of leather so he could cock the hammer with it,you can see it in this video if you pause it just right you will see his gun shooting sideways.
@@ChiefThundermoon very informative~thanks for sharing
Wild Bill Hickok said that being fast is not as important as being accurate!
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We see how that turned out
@@greg4876 With his back turned playing cards, and shot in the back of the head, didn't have much chance to be accurate hey?
@@markhartung everyone makes mistakes the fact he lived as long as he did is impressive. Best Hickock, Jeff Bridges.
@@maddhatter3564 That doesn't negate the fact that accuracy or speed had nothing to do with his death ........
I saw most of those movies and TV shows when I was growing up. Those were the days.
Absolutely. Those were the days of quality, not quantity.
didn't need all the gore and filthy language
The Late Bob Munden had them all beat, though not all of his records have full documentation. His fast draw was a record .175. In .25 he could fire twice and hit two balloons 6 feet apart.
He was a professional not an actor.
I thought he was at .02 seconds
it was .0175 actually..
I have seen Bob Munden twice in person do his fast draw show along with his wife. He would show what some of the actor's speed was compared to his own. He also was very accurate shooter.
He was amazing i met him few times over the years and saw him perform his wife was amazing as well
I am glad you included Sammy Davis Jr. He is fun to watch.
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Sammy was a showman with that six shooter .
@@benniebarrow348 with or without a 6 shooter. An all around entertainer, when that actually was a thing.
@@maddhatter3564 The topic is the six shooter fast draw but he definitely was a great entertainer no matter what he was involved in .
I herd years ago that when all the actors were timed now mind you I'm 69yrs Old so I've seen alot of westerns My favorite being Charles Bronson but it was said Sammy Davis Jr was the fastest
When I was a kid, I use to go to a shoe repair shop in Venice Calif, where the owner was a man by the name of Nick Nacastro. His shop walls had hundreds of pictures with him and a lot of the western stars of the day. He was (to my understanding) the fastest quick draw in the US., and he trained a lot of the western stars. As I remember, his speed was 0.04 of a second (I think, 65 years ago) In the opening shot of Gunsmoke, he was the man in black facing James Arness. Also I remember Sammy Davis also having this skill. Great Video, and wonderful to see them listed like this. Thank You!
The man facing Arness was Arvo Ojala.
Mr pat you got some facts wrong but I'm sure that was your understanding of it
@@petersearls4443 Right, and Ohala was probably the fastest ever. From his Wiki bio:
" His speed was clocked and verified a number of times. He could draw, fire, and hit the target in one-sixth of a second, faster than the eye can blink."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvo_Ojala
I heard a story once about Audie Murphy, he was on set of a movie when another big name actor, kept picking at him about who was fastest, Murphy got tired of it, and said ok, but they'd use real bullets, that ended the teasing. 😅😅😅
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@@RobbGF * Give it a rest, will ya.
The other actor was Hugh O’Brian.
I saw a documentary years back and Jerry Lewis came up pretty high as a quick draw shooter.
@@RobbGF Wow thanks for making the germane boring. 🙄😂🙄
Wyatt Earp said "the deadliest gunfighter is the one who takes his time. The first guy to draw is usually jumpy and misses. A good gunfighter will draw the same speed regardless of who he's facing. He takes the same amount of time. He doesn't waste time, he keeps a cool head and takes his time."
Wild Bill was the most deadly my friend. Read about his famous shot with a gun in both hands while riding a horse.
@@StevenMoney Maybe but it's hard to say because there were a number of cool customers back then. Bat Masterson being one of them. Luke Short was said to be real quick. Out on a street is one thing but in the Mountains the real Jeremiah Johnson would be my choice. Remember the very best gunfighters were not out looking for each other and only an idiot wanted a piece of Elfago Baca. Nobody in their right mind tangled with this lawman out of New Mexico.
There weren’t more than a couple of face to face gunfights, Hickok’s being one of them.
Only problem is the second guy is usually dead because the other guy wasn’t standing front of him like a Hollywood movie.
@@StevenMoneywhat shot is that? Not the gunfight he is credited with.
Audie Murphy, a true American Hero and Patriot.
James Arness as well
My dad served with him in ww2 3rd div, said he was very egotistical and smug.
@@henryfreab960 Really ? I doubt that very much. Everyone who worked with Murphy said the exact opposite.
@@timmytwodogs I knew guys who served with Murphy...Egotitstical and smug for sure. Also heroic. Also suffered mightily from combat PTSD the rest of his adult life.
He could also be very mean. My uncle Ben Cooper worked with Audie on Arizona Raiders. He said Audie would walk up behind someone and stick his SAA in their back. Then using a second SAA he would fire a blank in the air as he pulled the trigger on the pistol in their back.
Was there anything Sammy Davis Jr couldn’t do ? What an amazing talent .
Yeah you consider he perfected the art of gun juggling and the guy also was an accomplished tap dancer, singer, actor, etc.
He should of did a tap dance while twirling his pistol 😂
Yes, he could not leave a wagon track in a mud puddle. Hollyweird magic made them all look fast.
Bob munden the fastest gun thought Sammy Daviis was faster than him using a 7 1/2 inch barrel to a 4 1/2 inch
@@richardhovenden4258 Your source please, I cannot find it.
well he couldnt detect depth. He only had 1 eye.
I read the guy James Arness is drawing against was the professional that trained Arness in how to draw and handle a gun.
True, and I heard Arness never could beat him...They would have a contest for dinner.
HIs name was Arvo Ojala.
@@murphy4yt Orva Ojala was a holster maker, and many of the fast draw rigs back then were his.
Remember, Arness was drawing a 7.5 inch barrel SAA. A shorter Barrel is faster
@@arthurchadwell9267very true but Sammy Davis used a 7 1/2 inch barrel and was one of the fastest.
Don't know about fastest but I absolutely would not have wanted Audie Murphy shooting at me.
The most decorated soldier of WW2, but quick draw??? But definitely someone you wanted on your side, and he was.
Drawing an empty gun doesn't mean anything. When you have live rounds and it's real. it's a whole different story. Audi Murphy was the real deal.
ONCE EXPERIEINCED IT IS UNDESIREABLE FROM ANY ONE
do you not understand the point of this segment...idiot@@rickhunt3183
Arvo Ojala was fastest. He was Murphy's stuntman and exceptional with guns.
Audie Murphy was a real badass in the service.
Won just about every medal .
I’d say Clint Eastwood but trinity was the bomb right and the left hand of the devil
Clint ain't even in the top 10 ....@@randymiller1074
Murphy was the most Decorated American Soldier in WW2. but the fastest draw in Hollywood was Sammy Davis Jr, followed closely by Steve McQueen's Brother, can't recall his name, but he was a Stuntman...
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A number of years ago a western based channel wanted to know who was the fastest gun. Their final answer was Gene Wilder in the movie Blazing Saddles. He shoot guns from the hands of 6 men with pulled guns and he was so fast you don't see him draw! That ended their search!
Hehehe
Anything can go faster (or slower) while watching film - depending on the frames per second you're viewing. And in real world fights involving guns, you don't fire one shot and then see how well that works - you shoot the enemy right into the ground before you stop shooting to reload.
Most actors handling firearms in movies get professional training from people who used firearms for a living. Editing can't fix everything... and they probably know there's lots of cops, competitive shooters, and veterans who have been to the two way gun range in the audience.
Some are better students than others, some have more interest in firearms than others. Sammi Davis Jr., Tom Sellick, and Keano Reeves are three that were enthusiastic and diligent students. Baldwin proved that he was among the worst.
Watching shooting live is something else again. I saw Bob Munden shoot numerous times at exhibitions here in Montana where he lived. He was a top competitor in fast draw competition for quite a while. Then there's Jerry Miculek whose made his living as a pro shooter in action shooting for decades - and he's still a threat in competition in his senior citizen years... age hasn't slowed him down too much. Munden and Miculek appeared in different segments of a TV series that showed incredible shooting with handgun, rifle, and longbow.
1.88 seconds to knock down six steel plates at 15 yards, starting with hands head high (instead of just above the gun grip as with fast draw competition), using ammunition powerful enough to knock the plates over. Miculek did that at age 69 to set a new world record for shooting revolvers...
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@@AirborneMOC031 to your point: the original "Judge Roy Bean" with Walter Brennan
Yes editing can fix many a poor draw. Ben Cooper who made a lot of westerns in the fifties and sixties practiced for two to three hours a day for a couple of years to achieve his prowess with an SAA,both fast draw and spinning. Here are a few clips.
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One of the fastest I ever saw was Robert Fuller on Laramie
Heck yeah.
Dale Robertson of Tales of Wells Fargo looked fast.
Then he would patch them up at Rampart General Hospital.
Came here looking for / to say this. He did several demonstrations on tv and was supposedly very quick...
Respectfully anyone can have fast hands the real trick is reaction time. Think of a race that is 2 meters. The winner will not necessarily be the fastest runner but the fastest reaction when the gun sounds because it's only 2 steps and finish line. Same in fast draw. The average person's reaction time is .20 to .25. You can have Ben Foster or Jerry Lewis fast hands but do you have a fast reaction time??? Ben Foster did not get timed from light flash to draw and fire or if he did it was unremarkable. Fast hands with a normal reaction time is just a quick .40; about like Glenn Ford but not super fast. Jerry Lewis did and he was the fastest of the Hollywood actors. O'Brien was clocked at a fast .25 from signal to hit target and he was slower than Lewis and Sammy Davis.
@@bunkerman99Back in the fifties most of the timers weren’t started with a light, they were self started timers. The shooter would hold his finger on a button. When he picked it up the timer would start, when the target was hit it would stop. Dee Woolem had it created so that he could see how fast his draw was. That led to the 1954 contest at Knott’s Berry Farm between all of the guys who worked stunts at the Farm, robbing the passenger train. Dee went on to be the National Fast Draw champ 4 times according to his bio on Wikipedia.
I enjoyed this video but Audie Murphy was always a WWII hero, nothing 'former' about it.
WELL SAID
And to think the Marines "turned him down" during WW2 ??? Amazing!
IS!
Dale Robertson
I saw a lot of westerns, but when I saw Audie Murphy, I was amazed how fast he drew.
🤣 so we're some Germans in WW2.
@@DavidTucker-yk1bkBut not for long it was a case of " mein go..." then they were in himmel or likely the other place. 😂
IT IS A MOVIE, FAST AS HE WAS OR WAS NOT,IF HE WAS TOO SLOW ,THE MOVIE GUYS WOULDA MADE HIM PHENOMENAL UHH,LIKE HE WAS
@@jimlong20 It's not the movies. He was the fastest draw in Hollywood, as Basil Rathbone was the best swordsman of Hollywood.
OO - OOOHHH? I ALMOST FORGOT CHAELTO HESTON?!!
Even though it's never mentioned Ken Curtis (Festus) from Gunsmoke always seemed faster than anyone else on the series
He was a good shot on the program .
Fast hands are 10% of the equation; the really fast guys have abnormally fast reaction times and that is 90% of the equation. The avg person needs .20 to .25 just to react and the real fast draw is about over with by then. Average reaction times wont cut it. You need to have reaction times in the .08 to .12 range and then have fast hands and accuracy to win.
In real life Ken Curtis was a real good HS Quarterback so he had athletic skills. I always thought he handled a gun real well too.
I had no idea that Sammy Davis Jr. Was that good with a gun. And I guess Clint Eastwood didn't make the count down I love all of his Western Movies. Great content thanks for putting this together it was very cool to see.
Jerry Lewis the comedian of all people.
From a show on "The Rifleman" called The Sidewinder, that little boy called Gridley Maule Jr. was extremely fast with a gun. Played by Billy E. Hughes
I was about to say same...also Denny Miller from "The Promoter" episode of the rifleman who played "Reuben"
2:07 You mention Audie Murphy's military experience, but you didn't give any information about three things that WWII military experience greatly affected about James Arness' western character Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. Arness was one of the first ashore on the beaches at the battle of Anzio, Italy in January 1944. Arness was wounded in both legs by German machine gun fire. He had one bullet go through an ankle and at 6'6" tall it gave him his trademark walk, actually more of a limp on Gunsmoke. He was in constant pain during filming and many breaks had to be taken for him to deal with his extremely painful injuries that there was no cure for at that time, there weren't any artificial replacement joints like there are now. So he was good with all kinds of weapons, not just a wheel gun, but he was fast and accurate in real life from his military training and he had an imposing walk that made him look really mean, even though he was the nicest guy in the world in everyday life.
I talked to a Gunsmith that was a judge at them Shooting competion, He told me James Arness won every time he showed up.
My best friend when he was alive was Russ Dunham. Hit the beach at Anzio and 185 out of 200 men were casualties that 1st day at Anzio; Arness was in his made up platoon when they consolidated and Arness was in his squad. The Anzio campaign lasted 6 weeks and Russ was the Sgt on the 3rd day who climbed the hills until it was light and attacked a German Gun emplacement and knocked it out and then snaked his men up to knock more guns out. When they were cleaning out the machine gun nests in the grape vines in the area Arness went down like you say and Russ and another man crawled within 8 yards of the guns and dragged Arness to safety and the medics. Russ had 2 Bronze Stars, 3 Silver stars, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor. In his little library there were several pics of Arness giving Russ a bear hug. Arness told the producers of the show Combat to hire my Sgt, He will show your guys how a real combat Sgt in France Acts and they did and Russ enjoyed working with Vic Morrow. I asked Russ what these Sashes were and he said I won two unit citations for the outfit, one when I took a Panzer by myself at the relief of Bastogne. I captured it gun crew and all and surrendered it to our troops with white sheets tied to the barrel and the other was when I took 5 man and assaulted what turned out to be a death camp and we captured it. He always called Arness "Jimmy" and they stayed in touch at reunions and were proud to be 3rd Division men or as they called it The Rock of the Marne.
Read that Wyatt Earp Said, " Take your time in a hurry." Be accurate in quick time.
I once heard Glenn Ford was quite fast. The modern day fast draw was Bob Munden . He was named fastest quick draw in the world. Just very few seconds like 4.2 are somewhere along that amount of time. I saw him draw several times and it was like lightening.
You meant to say. 02 of a second.
I heard that about Glenn Ford, also. But when I watched him, I wasn't convinced.
I just found this video. I am now subscribed. Thank you. Every one of these actors were amazing.
Love the classic westerns .....when I first saw the episode of the Rifleman with Sammy Davis jr. I was amazed how lightning fast he was.
An honorable mention would be Peter Brown from the Lawman tv series. He didn't expose it but a couple times but he could smoke that holster too.
Great presentation , thanks !
Thanks so much!
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Many years ago, participating in the sport of fast draw, Sammy Davis jr was rated third in the world.
@@davidvance8843I’m sorry but that is pure fiction. He was one of the fastest actors, but he couldn’t even come close to beating someone like Bob Munden.
@@petersearls4443no one could....that man was amazing at drawing
When I was a kid there was a guy from Rogers Arkansas named Dee Woolem. He wore a cowboy outfit and called his character ‘The Daisy Kid’. He played shows as a fast draw champion which he was. He was four time winner of America’s fastest draw contest championship which was electronically timed (by sound) to one hundredth of a second and had to accurately hit a target. Dee could draw, cock a single action old West style revolver, aim, and fire in 21/100ths of a second! His favorite stage trick was to face someone about a foot apart with their hands body width apart ready to clap. Dee could draw and put the the gun with a click of the trigger up to their chest before they could clap their hands together. I think he was on the TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” showing his quick draw around early 1960’s. There might be a film clip of him on line. Not sure I spelled his name right.
Yup - I saw that episode of "Secret", first time on T.V. (... yeah ... I'm older 🤣.) One of my Mom's favorite programs. 😂 His demonstration was pretty amazing. First - he really didn't "look" like a "gunslinger". And, oh - he was FAST!
Another Fast Draw Champion in the early 1960's was John Dobson or John Dodson. He was from Illinois and could draw and fire a .45 Colt Revolver and hit a target 15 feet away in less than .24 seconds. 🤠
Yes he was an incredible draw. My uncle Ben Cooper who made a lot of westerns in the fifties and sixties used to do that same clap trick with one exception. He would tuck the thumb of his gun hand behind his belt buckle and tell you to clap when you see me draw. They always clapped the barrel.
@@petersearls4443 Peter, always enjoyed your Uncle Ben, never knew how fast he was! Saw him in a "Mannix" episode recently, used an M1 Grand in that one!
@ thanks Gerald. Yeah he was the bad guy in that one if I remember correctly.
That would be the great “Quick Draw McGraw” of Hannah Barbara productions!!!!!
😂😂 And don’t forget “Kid Curry” 😂 (Alias Smith and Jones)
@@dianebuzek723 A short lived tv series, when one of the actors committed suicide????
@@patrickregan3302 I meant Curry’s fast draw. It was a joke because he didn’t really draw, it was just a cut away and then back and he was pointing his gun. Like he was lightning fast.
Love it❤❤
and he was quick with a guitar
Very nicely done. I didn’t think I’d be interested, but this was so well presented. Great music, great choice of scenes, which speak for themselves - and they’re all from my childhood. Too bad Paladin didn’t make the list, but it doesn’t matter, he was incredible. Such a good actor - and so ___ you fill in your own thing. :) 🐺🐎🐦⬛😼✨
All of them were AWESOME!!! 🤠
As soon as I saw the title of this video I remembered Sammy Davis Jr. and a demonstration he did on some TV show. Thanks for including him.
Sammy Davis Jr 60th anniversary 1990.
Sammy carried live rounds during a period. After threats against him. Since he included the quick draw to his act already.it wasn't obvious.
If I remember correctly, the person Arness is drawing against in the opening credits of Gunsmoke was the fastest draw in the U S at the time and taught Arness how to draw.
Yes that is correct, see my other video on this them in my channel
Arvo Ojala
Clint Eastwood won the quickdraw contest in Vegas against a slew of coy boy actors. He won saddle bags full of silver dollars.
In case you forgot Clint Walker in Cheyenne was very, very fast!
He could go bear hunting with a switch.
it was all edited for movies, HELLO
No prob. If he ran out of bullets he could beat you to a pulp.
Clint Walker was so big and strong that if going to guns failed, he could just pick you up and take care of things hand-to-hand. I've seen smaller trees than that guy! You can never tell about people, though - and perhaps surprisingly, Walker was a talented song-and-dance man, too - and not just a macho type.
“There’s always someone faster”.
Indeed.
@@Emanonik Need to know his times.
Yeah, unless you’re the fastest.
Top guns for sure. Wouldn't it be interesting to imagine this group in a contest such as the one in the movie 'The Quick And The Dead'. My money is on Ford and Murphy.
Yes, a missed opportunity to get more recorded images of these guys timed.
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I think I mentioned this before, but Ford was recognized by Hollywood as their official gunfighter, which was why he was cast in so many westerns as a fast draw gunslinger.
'The Last Challenge' is a rare one that's not seen much, where the plot is centered around an inevitable gunfight, just to prove who's fastest. Same as 'The Fastest Gun Alive'.
I always enjoy your western videos and this one is a dandy. Great stuff, appreciate you keeping the wild west alive.
My two picks as well along with Audie Murohy.
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You should watch Bob Mundin, he was the fastest alive and to this day. He would fire a single action so fast it sounds like one shot
I always liked Alex Cord when he handled the draw. Looked impressive.
There is one actor you may want to check into may top your list was Robert Fuller hard to see his draw.if you blink you WILL miss it..
Yep, he looked incredibly fast!
In filming all the scenes are edited, and the fastest is usually the lead actor.
Yeah and he had that magnificent voice.
Yelp Fuller is the fastest actor hands down
Get to watch him frequently as Dr. Kelly Brackett on Emergency....
I think consideration should be given to Val Kilmer in tombstone as Doc Holiday
The real Doc yea, but Val those scenes were edited.
And Clint Eastwood who played many fast draws
Johnny Ringo was a lot faster than doc👍
@@kennethhlavik8155 yet he finished up with a bullet in his head irl.
DID VAL DO THIS OR WAS THERE A LITTLE SPEC. EFFECTS INVOLVED ? I ASK THIS FROM THE BLISS OF IGNORANCE,CAUSE I DO NOT KNOW,BUT I'D LIKE TO
Rory Calhoun who played the Texan.
Yes he was very fast.
I enjoyed watching many of these shows growing up, Just for the fun of it, I always liked "My name is Nobody" Terrance HIll
He starred in those Trinity movies too.
@@billcowden5226i always wondered what happened to him..... i thought he would be a big star then all of a sudden he was gone
Definitely the fastest!
@@ohioridercinci2495 he was faster than the eye could see lol. Hilarious.
That movie was so stupid it should have been a cartoon!! Henry Fonda must've seriously needed money to be in something so beneath his acting caliber.
Dale Robertson as Jim Hardie was very fast too Tales of Wells Fargo
Agree. Dale Robertson was a fast draw. I also think Hugh O'brian from The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, had one of the fastest draws.
That was good as well as ''The Texan".
Bob was used to thumbing the single action with live ammunition, which was slower than the fanning style used by the fastest blank competitors. Once introduced to Fast Draw with blanks, he immediately began practicing and developed his own fanning style of draw, shooting thousands of rounds with blank ammunition every week. By 1961 Bob Munden was winning just about every shoot he entered, and eventually set 18 world records, including Fastest Time in the Walk and Draw Level event at 15 hundredths of a second, using a .45 caliber stock-weight Colt.
Did you know that almost all of his records have been removed from Guinness due to lack of documentation.
You tube has videos of Bob Munden where they slowed down the video so you could hear he shot twice hitting balloons 6 ft. apart. At speed it sounds like one shot! It's awesome!
@@larryfoster4141 Yes I have it on DVD ..
@@petersearls4443 That's Sad I see his Fast Draw record was broke by like 0.003 seconds or some small fraction .
It was said that jay Silverheels of Lone Ranger fame was the fastest in the 50's and 60's. In addition, Jerry Lewis was said to be a fast draw expert as well.
yes i think on johnny carson a guest and johnny discussed jerry lewis as the number one fast draw in hollywood
Until someone can post a clip of Jerry making a fast draw, I can’t take those comments about him seriously.
@@petersearls4443 The man who trained Sammy Davis also trained Jerry Lewis. According to him(his last name was Ocala; can't remember his first name, but he trained MANY actors in fast draw), Lewis beat Davis to the draw consistently. Lewis made only one western, a comedy, with Dean Martin, and his character never used a gun, so there
are no clips of his prowess
@@mikegrossberg8624 actually Ben Cooper was the first to teach Sammy in the early 50s. Ben went to visit Sammy when he was recovering from the auto accident where he lost his eye. When he arrived Sammy was up, dressed and had his gun rig on wanting to compete. 😃 Here is Ben doing a little spinning. ruclips.net/video/rRAFg2a6dxw/видео.htmlsi=3t52cAfEEOfydO9U
@@mikegrossberg8624 That was Orva Ojala on the other end of the draw with Matt Dillon. And yea, I always though you could hear he was faster.
Glenn Ford in my opinion was one of the fastest ! He was really good!
No he wasn't.
@@TheGreyRider-p5z Then who was since you know so much?
@@douglasmeek9774 Jerry Lewis beat him hands down and 2d to Jerry was Sammy Davis Jr. Fast hands are not enough. Reaction time is everything. The light goes on... draw. The average reaction time is .2 to .25 and by then it's over since Lewis was clocked in under .25 from flash to broken target. Ford was .40. That is not competitive. World record by a pro is .208. Lewis was pro quality
@@bunkerman99 your repeating lore, but there aren’t any clips of Lewis making a really fast draw.
@@petersearls4443 I think there are but sub .25 is still sub .25 and the R is .208.
Hugh O"Brian was well known for for being exceedingly fast
As was Micheal Landon as little Joe Cartwright……he had a wicked fast left handed draw on Bonanza
Chickened out when it came to facing Audi for real though.
@@pughoneycutt1986well who wouldn't chicken out.....that would be crazy just to prove who's fastest
@@greg4876 don't issue a challenge unless you are willing to back it up.
Hugh gets my vote. Dale Robertson is right there, also.
i used to like when palladin would recite a profound quote from a book to somebody to give them a chance to backdown before popping him one.
Jelly Bryce was the fastest gun that ever lived. He could draw and fire and hit his target in 2/10ths of a second. A life magazine story on him in 1945 shows him with high-speed camera photos' He has a coin on the back of his hand at waist level. He draws the gun, and the coin hasn't cleared his knees. In his storied law enforcement career, he killed many criminals who had the drop on him. In a competition with the Vice President of Smith and Wesson, The VP of S&W was holding a gun in his hand. Bryce drew and fired before the VP could get a shot off.
The difference is that Jelly Bryce was the real deal, not an actor. That 2/10th of a second draw was done from under a suit jacket.
Doc, you're right, Mr. Bryce was fast, And lethal!
Let's not forget Bill Jordan of the Border Patrol, another real-life gunfighter. Also helped S&W introduce the Combat Magnum! Blsgs, gg
I once went to the Rivera in Vegas to see Dean Martin..during his show he put on an
Exceptional exhibition in drawing a gun..
Giving Sammy Davis Jr some competition!
Wow!! Just look at Sammy Davis go! That’s freaking amazing. I’m just gobsmacked :) Gosh, he was so talented.
Of the Rat Pack, he and Sinatra were the top singer and actor talents. Dean is second cause was so good with Jerry Lewis.
I've got a feeling when you get to those miniscule microseconds personal attitude is the deciding factor. In other words, not just God-given quickness, but finally fearlessness and total concentration - regardless of the consequences. With that in mind ... Audie Murphy. I definitely want him in combat with me. Also, it would have been fun to see how fast and accurate Bruce Lee could have achieved, had he gone that route.
Sammy Davis, Jr., according to an old article.
Way back when I was a kid, Sammy might have been the fatest of the better know Hollywood crowd. After seeing Audey Murphy though, Sammy was definetly slower. I have seen and read about Bob Munden, plus saw the video where they had a gravity measure and reaction time device on his wrist. He was faster than a rattle snake, his mass in motion gun grasp and fire was the fastest ever know or measured. I don't think anyone would every face Munden or Murphy. It would be a certainty that Murphy would naturally kill you.@@davegreene8588
Arvo Ojala was the most famous cowboy holster maker in Hollywood and not only made holsters, he taught many actors how to draw quickly and properly, and was the man who OUTDREW Matt Dillon in the opening scene of "Gunsmoke". He also taught many TV 'gunmen', especially Hugh O'Brian as "Wyatt Earp" in drawing his 'Buntline'. (I shoot some CAS with a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 'Buntline' and it takes a specially made rig and LOTS of practice to get a sub-1-second draw.)
That opening episode of Gunsmoke (season 1) is still my all time favorite.
The other quick draw teacher in H-wood was Rod Redwing. Rod and Arvo trained all of them
@@ClayBlasdel44most not all. 😊
Lots of Hollywood actors were involved in the Walk & Draw craze.
As you see many were very fast.
DON'T EVER FORGET, ROBERT REDFORD OR PAUL NEWMAN?? IN THE BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDACE KID!
ESPECIALY, ROBERT REDFORD!
When I was kid I can remember going to my Uncle's Ranch in the Santa Cruz Hills CA. Where he taught many of the Actors in the late 50's and early 60's quick draw. His name was Ron Welch, My dad and I met Clint Eastwood there once when I was 13, that was pretty cool to say the least. Dad would always ask whos the fastest and Uncle would say the camera, the movie parts are all edited. They would train off and on horses for technic with planks to make it look more realistic for the camera, it would save a lot of time on the set.
Nobody comes near Terence Hill in faster gun drawing in westerners ! He himself was the fastest guy in westerners like his gun !
@@potkashyam11 All edited movies, the same way no one runs out of ammo.
Terence Hill. My Name is Nobody...Nobody was faster.
you got to remember they where all edited, the lead actor always won.
I saw a video recently that said that Glen Ford was the fastest of all the cowboys in the old Westerns...
You Did Darn-it I Can’t Beat With You 👍
He wasn’t but he was in the group of the top 6 or 7 actors.
Well then, I guess that settles it.
Michael Landon was fast aswell
I saw that, also, But I wasn't convinced after watching some Glen Ford movies.
The Rifleman was a class acf. He had Sammy Davis on there. Wow.
The Rifleman is my favorite western tv series.
@@Karvega11 and "Have Gun Will Travel" with Richard Boone
A hired gunfighter who lives in a posh hotel in San Francisco. Educated, cultured and polished. Enjoys opera, fine wine, dining, hob nobbing with royalty. Yet is comfortable on the trail or having a whiskey at a saloon. Truly is a morally elite person always part of the dialog. He'll reach into his shirt and pull out his pristine card, "Paladine" , Have Gun Will Travel.( only accessible via telegram or messenger). A class act like no other. Good guy always wears black lol.
Note: some incredible varied writers over the seasons notably Sam Peckinpah, Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek), Harry&Julien Fink(Dirty Harry) and many others.
Cultured society meets the wild west. Exquisite.
@@Karvega11 The Rifleman is excellent, but when I see a gunfight I wonder how "fairness" can happen when one person is drawing a pistol from a holster, and the other is holding a rifle?
My Name is Nobody Terrence Hill: The slap Scene and some fast drawing,
That was editing.
@@petersearls4443 yet hilarious
@@DanHolmes-o9b very true.
Funny! I noticed at 5:59 in "The Fastest Gun Alive", that's John Doucette as one of the townpeople, his face is recognizable as the first man standing on the left looking where the shattered beer glass fell after Glenn Ford's shot. Ha! I wrote my first comment before I watched this video. Caught me by surprize! 😯
Sam Peckinpah loved to showcase shooting skills. He originally wanted at the opening of the Rifleman show for Chuck Conners to gun down 14 bad guys in the town of North Fork. His writers talked him out of it and he settled for Chuck Conners to empty his Winchester and not show what he was shooting at. 🤠
He had Bruce Gellar write an episode of his series The Westerner specifically for my uncle Ben Cooper because of his speed and gun handling abilities. It was called Hand on the Gun and can be found on RUclips.
That Winchester had a 7 round magazine.
@@TheGreyRider-p5z 😂😂😂😂😂 has that ever stopped Hollywood?
Sure glad they cleared Main St., North Fork, N.M. before Lucas cut loose!
@@TheGreyRider-p5zThe Winchester 1892 carbine, in .44WCF had an 11 rnd. Magazine.
you left one notable out-- JERRY LEWIS! he was very fast and fancy with a gun :D
I had heard he was the fastest actor in Hollywood. That's what Bob Munden said and he trained most of the gunslingers. He was the fastest man that ever lived.
@@rogerkruse7121 not just fast , Munden was uncommonly accurate , hip shooting a winchester at a moving target and hitting a target at 200 feet with a snub nose revolver.
i too have heard for years that Jerry Lewis, funny man and gun collector, was judged to be the fastest gun draw of all the actors 🙂 counter-intuitive for a comedian to be the bad ass, the baddest ass, but life is funny that way sometimes 😜 and Sammy Davis Jr. was number 2, second fastest gun hand among actors! there you have it, Lewis and Davis, the very best 🙂👍🏼
maybe you should fix your video 🤔
@@p.thompson5375 how can you include someone when no one has been able to find a clip of him making a fast draw.
@@p.thompson5375Turned out Sammy was number 3, Buddy Hackett was just a tiny bit faster.
Murphy had PTSD, Slept with a pistol under his pillow, he was a major gambler, an died in a plane crash broke.
Is that from a book about him?
@@thegolfnut812 think it was a documentary I seen. It could've been a book. I do a lot of different "Research" into various things. I have a lot of interests. I'm sure you could find the info off youtube.
I'm an army veteran, and I hunt. So naturally I looked into some of the Army's greatest Soliders.
@@coppertopv365 That information is in Don Graham's book, "No Name On The Bullet".
My uncle was a marine in WW2 who fought in the Solomon Islands campaigns. He finally got wounded by shrapnel during an island landing and nearly died before recovering in an island hospital. He had PTSD his whole life after the war.
I sleep with a pistol too.
Somebody asked me " what are you afraid of?"
I answered " not a damn thing!"
😂
Michael Landon as Joe Cartwright on Bananza, Lee Majors as Health Barclay on Big Valley, and Robert Conrad on Wild Wild West all looked pretty fast in their fast draws.
Audi Murphy was presented Colt's SAA revolvers during a tour of the factory.
On his arrival in Hollywood, he stayed with James Cagney in his pool house.
Audie used to take his Colt's behind the Hollywood hills and practice until his fingers bled.
He was given a custom rig made by Arvo Ojala.
By any standards, Murphy was formidable with a gun.
DOES?/ DOES CHARLES BRONSON RING ABELL, OF A VERY FAST GUN FIGHTER? TO ME IT DOES?!!
I remember that episode with Sammy Davis. He was really impressive. I thought he was fastest so I appreciate your enlightenment. Never would have guessed Audie Murphy but no surprise really. I used to strap up for my showdown with Matthew on Gunsmoke. A lot of practice and I still remember my older brother saying, "you got him".😅 What a rush... Of course I was a kid so the weight was probably equal. Not everything was made of plastic back then. lol
I agree with those who say Terrence Hill should be added to the list. One name I don't see in the comments so far and who was a very fast draw was James Garner ("Maverick").
Thanks for posting this. How about James Garner in Support Your Local Gunslinger or Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under.
James Garner did a great Wyatt Earp
Arvil Ojala would have been a good addition. While he was mostly a background actor (Who Dillon shoots in the Gunsmoke opening) was also a fantastic armorer and taught almost everyone else in this piece how to draw and shoot.
Correct. Arvo had an unofficial world record in draw . His draw was 1/6 of a second . In actual wild west it did NOT matter much how fast somebody was. Many gunslingers were either ambushed or shot to back . Names like Wild Bill , Wes Hardin, Ben Thompson and Morgan Earp comes to mind. They all died that way. Rudi Rafael
@@jyrkikk Very true and thank you for correcting my spelling of his name.
Ironically, the only documented "classic show down" was Wild Bill... considering his end. There were a few notable running gunfights where coolness under fire was the key. Bass Reeves and Wyatt Earp were two examples that come to mind. In Earp's case he was very fast but to buffalo an opponent.
When it came to six-gun shootouts, Earp had two. One in KS (before Tombstone) where he was under fire by a dude with a rifle from some distance. It's reported that he dropped to one knee, took aim and dropped the attacker with a single shot. At the gunfight in Tombstone, it is said he didn't move while everyone else was jockeying for position.
There are two quotes attributed to him though I'm not sure which goes with which incident. One was, "I took my time, in a hurry." I personally believe that was related to the KS shooting. The other was, "Fast is fine but accuracy is final." That seems to fit the Tombstone shootout. In my mind anyway. But looking back through 140 years and not to mentioning the years of dramatic promotion from even the contemporaries makes it impossible to know which was which.
I know we're off topic now but since I got on Wyatt Earp, it's interesting that he's famous for being a ruthless gunman. I believe there's only four people he's known to shoot as far as I remember. The man in KS (whose name escapes me), I think he was "credited" with Billy Clanton (but I'm not sure), Frank Spence (ambush) and Curly Bill (Iron Springs). Also, Virgil was far more experienced and famous at the time as a lawman. I don't think anyone can argue he was not cool under fire though.
Supposedly Peter breck, well-known for play Nick Barkley on the The Big Valley, clocked in at 16/100th of a second, which I believe would have made him the fastest of all, yet he's not mentioned here.
It may be because he was the one who claimed the speed with nothing to back it up.
Quick Draw McGraw! Everybody knows that! A close second was, Sheriff Bart!
How about Allan Ladd in Shane?
It was said that Ladd didn't even like guns or like handling them. If you notice, in the scene where he turns and shoots the guy up on the balcony in the bar, his gun isn't even pointed in the right direction.
Robert Fuller (who played Jess) on the TV Series Laramie, was pretty doggone fast too! Anyone else agree?
Hollyweird magic made them all fast, lol
I always thought he was fast because he always won on the show lol loved that show and still watch it every now and then
He says he loves Laramie reruns
89yrs 3/27/24
@@williamh3823 - Leonard Leroy Lee, He'll be 91 yrs old come this July 29th. Too bad he didn't use his middle name "Leroy" in there some where, as every Leroy I ever knew was a tough SOB! As I suspect he is also! 🙂 🙂
Audie was a true hero his characters were plausible and he wore the black hat as well as the white...unfortunately he had many life challenges
I am always amazed at Audie Murphy's acting skills. His characters, as you say, are plausible.
I also appreciated that no matter how bad his finances got ( and he did have to declare bankruptcy), he never took a job hawking cigarettes or liquor.
Audie Murphy was for real.
In the opening scenes of the early "Gunsmoke" episodes (not the later ones where Matt Dillion is shooting while riding his horse at full speed) the outlaw James Arness draws against was portrayed by the man who taught him quick draw, I believe.
Yes his name was Arvo Ojala. From Norway. I think the J was pronounced with a Y sound.
@@petersearls4443 Thank you for that information, much appreciated!
I read his Wikipedia article, it was very enlightening and a pleasure to read about his life, and how he approached and refined his craft.
I'd be interested to know what Tom Selleck did in "Quigley Down Under", especially in the shootout near the end w/Alan Rickman. Great movie IMO....Especially given all the L'Amour Westerns he'd starred in.
I heard Hugh O'Brian was the fastest in Hollywood. The big trick to fast draws was the film was cut and sped up during the draw. So who can really say watching film clips.
Yeah, I look for witnessed and timed draws
Only if the actor was not capable of doing it on their own. By the 50’s and 60s most of the time if the actor wasn’t fast enough the scene would be edited. Ex: showing the good guy going for his gun, cut to the bad guy, cut back to the good guy as he was firing the gun. To see fast actors look for scenes where you can see that the actor was the person making the draw and there are no cuts away from him.
Did anyone ever see just how fast Audie Murphy was in the movie Night Passage with James Stewart? There is a scene where Audie’s character is talking to a young member of the outlaw gang. Audie has his hand a horse stall post, the youngster who had been bragging about outshooting a man and taking his gun belt and guns. Audie tell him to draw, Audie’s hand was so fast you hardly saw it as he pulled his gun out of the holster. And the man was a real life bad ass as well. He won every medal our country could give him, plus 2 from France and 1 from Belgium. All before he was 19 years old. I read a story once from a actor (sorry don’t remember name) he was in several movies with Audie, but he and Audie were in this movie together and it required this actor to grow his hair long. They had went to this bar and ordered rum and coke I believe, but Audie kept pushing over his rum to the other actor and was only drinking coke. This big man came in and started harassing them, in particular the actor with the long hair. They tried to ignore him but he kept on and finally got up from his table and came up to that actor, and yanked his head back by his hair. Audie didn’t say a word, he just got up and cold cocked that man right in the jaw. That man went down like a ton of bricks and didn’t get up. Audie calmly sat back down and finished his coke. That’s how badass he was. Audie wasn’t a big man, but that man could fight. I wish I could remember that actors name who told that story. He usually played bad guys in Western films. If ever there was anyone whom I’d want in a fight, it would be Audie Murphy.
I remember thinking...that was fast...when I saw Night Passage.
Tough little bastard! All American hero.
I was glad to see Glen Ford on here because he was deadly fast in the movie "The Fastest Gun Alive". But the other two people who were fast in shows that I would have liked to see on here was Little Joe from the show "Bonanza" and Mannon a character from three of the episodes of the show "Gunsmoke". I remember Ms. Kitty talking to Festus about Mannon and she said: "Matt will get'em". And Festus said back to Ms. Kitty: "Ms. Kitty, I've seen Matthew draw and I've seen him. And you couldn't get any quicker if you took a snake's tongue and tied it with greased lighting". And he was faster than Matt Dillon. The character Mannon was played by actor Steve Forrest. He also played in another Gunsmoke episode as a character called: "The Widowmaker" and he was just as fast as that character as he was as the character Mannon.
Jack Elam was probably Audie Murphy's best friend. He said that he could sometimes outdraw Audie but he could never out shoot him. Hugh O'Brien, from the Wyatt Earp TV series,. was also fast. He wanted have a quick draw contest to proved who was the fastest movie cowboy. Audie said sure, so long as we use real bullets. (No takers)
Jack Elam, classic Western Villain! My brother met him and said he was a very nice man off camera!
I feel like Clint Eastwood and Terrance Hill should be in vids like this.
Clint may not have been the fastest, but he was the most accurate.
Should have Dale Robertson in the list somewhere.
Funny that he taught himself to shoot Left Handed for the TV Series.
@@OldDood so true …..and was very good at it .
Yeah I was thinking him and also Rory Calhoun.
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Damn those are excellent Dale Robertson westerns. Especially 'Day Of Fury', which featured Jock Mahoney, and 'The Silver Whip', which featured Rory Calhoun. Great stuff for sure 👍
@@Emanonik true……I read that in 2 or 3 different articles which mentioned that to be the case . Unless someone has first hand info from the man himself it would be taking the word of a few writers. Entertaining either way .
Interesting note, Steve McQueen almost got fired from the magnificent 7, he would go off script to draw attention to himself. The scene where he dips water out of the creek in his hat from horse back wasn't scripted, but they did like it and left it
The scene where he is riding in the wagon with a double barrel shotgun and he shakes the shotgun shells before he puts them into the shotgun. It was said that his 'scene-stealing' behavior did not endear him to fellow actors. LOL
His scene stealing was why he wasn’t included in the first sequel. Yul Brenner said, if he is in the film, I won’t be.
@@petersearls4443 it worked well for him
If you don't push yourself, nobody else will.
That Ben Cooper shot was faster than I can lift my arm !
I like your choice. Ben was my uncle. 😀 And he really was that fast.
@@petersearls4443 In that shot he was literally dropping his shoulder as he was raising his barrel , then fired. It doubled his speed .... well above the rest !!!
@@rocknfan100 he practiced 2 to 3 hours a day for years to get that good. He was the first to teach Sammy Davis jr. to fast draw, before he lost his eye in the car accident.
Least we forget about Jim, the Waco Kid. Never even saw his hand draw. 😂
Don't recall where I read it, but it was published that in the 60's that Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis was two of the fastest fast draw competition drawers ever in that arena,
Heard that same thing from Bob Munson.
Of all the fast guns, mentioned and unmentioned, only one placed high in formal fast gun competition, Sammy Davis, Jr.
Can you find any results from fast draw competition with actors back in the 50’s and 60’s?
Clint Eastwood also entered legit fast draw competitions and placed well
Dean Martin as well
@shastaham7630.dont forget Jerry Lewis in actor 1956quick draw when Sammy an Jerry both beat Hugh Obrians 0.25 sec. Both of thier times weren't recorded some believe it was Race , black an Jerry Jewish !
@@richardpinner1029 I didn’t know about Jerry Lewis. Thanks for the info.
Dont matter if eastwood or john wayne were fast they would DRAW the biggest crowds FAST
Back in my youth we used to practice it a lot. One observation. Many of these actors drop their shoulder when drawing. You'll never be the fastest if you do that. Keep that shoulder still.
Actually, the shoulder drop at the right time helps move the pistol up and forward. My uncle Ben Cooper was faster than any of the actors that get mentioned regularly and he would use a slight dip of the shoulder. At the right time and in the right position it would rotate the gun up and forward.
@@petersearls4443 Nope. Keep the shoulder still.
Hehehe whatever you want to believe. I saw it in action with him many times. He was the first to teach Sammy Davis in the early fifties, look for Ben Cooper outlaws son. You will see the slight dip I’m talk8ng about.
@@petersearls4443 We used ROTC classes over a period of 4 years with an average of 18 participants per year (Texas A&M 1978-82). So I'm not guessing. We also did the Lee Harvey Oswald shot by pulling an old Caddy with a Maintainer (road grader) via a very long cable. 63 out of 72 of us bettered LHOs shot on JFK.
Hollywood style or cowboy fast draw?
I think you should have included Russel Crow from The Quick and the Dead and 310 to Yuma. As an actor, he was really good with cowboy six guns