Le Mat Revolver - Use in Popular Culture

Use in Popular Culture

• TV Gunslinger turned Sheriff Johnny Ringo carried a LeMat revolver. Played by Don Durant, Johnny Ringo aired for one season (38 episodes) in 1959-60.
• Jayne Cobb, a character from the television series Firefly and the movie Serenity, uses a handgun based on the LeMat Revolver which he named 'Boo'.
• Dr. Theophilus "Doc" Algernon Tanner in the Deathlands series of novels has carried two different LeMat revolvers. In the "100th" book in the series, Prodigal's Return, Doc upgrades to a modern replica chambered for .44 center-fire cartridges.
• Bruce Willis' character in the movie 12 Monkeys was equipped with a LeMat for a time-traveling mission into the past to assassinate a bioterrorist.
• Swede Gutzon is armed with a LeMat in the film The Quick and the Dead.
• Inman, the main character in the novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, carries and uses a LeMat.
• Bufe Coker, a character in both the novel and miniseries Centennial carries a LeMat revolver.
• Red Dead Redemption, a video game set in the dying days of the Old West, includes the LeMat revolver as an available weapon in the later part of the game.
• The Warrior's Way, one of the film's villains, The Colonel, uses a LeMat throughout the movie.
• In J. T. Edson's Trigger Fast, George Lasalle, a supporting character, owns and uses a LeMat carbine; its unusual configuration is described in some detail.
• In the BBC America series Copper, Detective Francis Maguire, played by Kevin Ryan, wins a LeMat in a poker game and carries it thereafter.