My dad has now on multiple occasions brought up a western he watched in his youth (1970s or so) in which a character had a trick gimmick-gun built into his boot, which would fire a bullet when he kicked. My dad is convinced this was a central gimmick to the character and not a one-off thing.
He thinks ether the character or movie was called Zapata or something in that vein (which seems to be a subgenre based on a specific Mexican outlaw), so my first thought was that it would be one of the three Sabata movies, which famously use gimmick weapons, although none of the descriptions that I can find seem to mention anyone shooting a bullet by kicking with their boot. It could be a more obscure knock-off of course.
Can anyone help me find a movie with such a character?
There’s a scene in ‘Catlow’ (1971) where Yul Brynner has a pistol hidden inside his boot, and takes a shot at Leonard Nimoy and his gang of bounty hunters … other than that, nothing rings a bell.
Here’s the trailer which shows part of the scene … but he only does the trick once, as far as I remember.
PS: Cheyenne (Jason Robards ) in ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’, also shoots someone through his boot, from the roof of a moving train.
Thank you for your suggestions. It sounded more like the character was using a mechanism in his boot to shoot a bullet out of it instead of using a pistol - but I’ll check with him.
Also I just realised that I somehow wrote “gimmick” wrong in the thread title, and that is massively embarrassing.
A thought that came to mind was that your Dad might be recalling a scene from 'Adios, Sabata’, where Yul Brynner uses his boot to kick over a gun and kill someone…
I think the moccasin bullet slinging might be it. I’ve ordered a DVD with Danish subtitles to show my dad to check (and a blu-ray set of the entire trilogy for my own collection). Thank you for the help. I’ll mark this as the solution if it turns out to be correct!
