From: rwalton@tehmi.next.com (Robert Walton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best gun shots......SPOILERS
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:31:43 GMT

---Spoilers Follow for Magnum P.I., and Quigley Down Under---



















These two because of how the audience was handled (surprised):

1) From a 2-hour Magnum, P.I. "TV-movie" -- Ivan, a Soviet agent[?],  
plants a car bomb that kills Magnum's navy Intel side-kick (Max, Matt  
or something like that?).  Magnum finds and corners Ivan, who taunts  
Magnum as being a "school boy" in the professional espionage  
business, unable to pull the trigger since Ivan is unarmed and not  
attacking him.  Magnum lowers the gun as if he's not going to use it  
and asks Ivan, "Did you see the sun rise"?  Ivan, now somewhat  
confused, replies "yes, it was beautiful", or similar.  Magnum then  
looks him in the eye and says, "Matt didn't", or something like that.   
Ivan's expression shows shock as his impending death registers, and  
Magnum blows him away.

2) From Quigley Down Under -- at the climax, Quigley (Selleck), who  
has professed more than once in the movie that he "didn't have much  
use for" pistols, is given one by the cocky gunfighter-wannabe  
Australian bad guy (damnit, what's his name?), who, along with 2  
other henchmen, face Quigley down in a "fast-draw" designed to kill  
him.  Everybody, including the audience, think Quigley's going to buy  
the farm, but as they prepare to draw, Quigley says something like,  
"This isn't Dodge City, and you're not Bill Hickock" as if he knows  
what he's talking about.  Doubt begins to furrow our bad guy's brow,  
but he draws anyway.  Quigley is blindingly fast and drills all  
three, to their everlasting chagrin :-).  He walks over to the dying  
bad guy and says something like, "I said I don't have much use for  
these [pistols], not that I don't know how to use one."

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