BBC America and the Beretta 1953

Cafe Society
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I’ve complained about this before.
The Friday night BBC America shows-The Avengers, The Saint, The Pretenders-the most frequent firearm is the Beretta 1953. I have a .32 in my sock drawer. They might be .380s on TV.
Tonight, each damn show had a 1953 Beretta. I’ll not even complain about the silencer on a revolver on The Pretenders.
What’s so damn sexy about the 1953? Italian cops used to carry it. No Lugers, no Walther PPKs, no Mausers?

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Maybe they were the easiest guns to adapt for blanks?

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I dunno. They’ve done some stupid things with them-or it, maybe they couldn’t afford more guns.
They had a silencer on a revolver; it won’t work.
Someone fired the Beretta once, and the slide locked open; the clip was empty.
Tony Curtis took the Beretta, unknown from a desk drawer tonight in The Presuaders (sorry, wrong name in the OP) and waited until he was ready to shoot the bad guy to pull the slide back and chamber a round; how did he know it was loaded?