Nock gun weapons gallery at York Castle Museum, the Hollywood Guns exhibit at the National Firearms Museum, the Royal Armouries Museum, and the Charleston Museum (SC). The Nock gun was brought to modern attention in the 1960 film "The Alamo" in which one is used by actor Richard Widmark, playing Jim Bowie. The gun used in the film is now in the National Firearms Museum. Nock guns can be seen in realistic period films including "" 2003, and fantasy films like "Jonah Hex" 2010, and "" 2012. In Bernard Cornwell's series of historical novels featuring fictional British soldier Richard Sharpe and, more
Bowie knife Bowie "The Iron Mistress" and "The Adventures of Jim Bowie" television series of the 1950s. At the end of John Ford's film "The Searchers" (1958), John Wayne's character Ethan Edwards uses a Bowie knife to scalp the Comanche Indian chief 'Scar' he has been hunting throughout the film. The Bowie knife was a staple in "The Alamo" movies of 1960 and 2004; the first three Rambo movies, "First Blood" (1982), "" (1985), and "Rambo III" (1988); the Crocodile Dundee films, "Crocodile Dundee" (1986) and "Crocodile Dundee II" (1988), and "Friday the 13th" (1980). The famous musician David Bowie (born David