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A PPK carried by Princess Anne's personal police officer James Beaton infamously jammed during a kidnapping attempt on the princess and her husband. [19] The fictional secret agent James Bond uses a Walther PPK in many of the novels and films: Ian Fleming's choice of Bond's weapon directly influenced the popularity and notoriety of the PPK.
He carries both guns during a mission in Jamaica for this novel, but only fires the S&W; in subsequent stories, he relies on the PPK. In the film adaptation of Dr. No, the first in the series, Boothroyd only offers the PPK (in the scene, a larger Walther PP stands in for the mentioned PPK) and Bond reluctantly turns in his Beretta 1919 or 318 ...
Fleming adopted this suggestion, giving Bond a PPK in the novel Dr. No (1958). The choice of the PPK directly influenced that gun's popularity and notoriety. [4] [5] The novel also contains a character named "Major Boothroyd" who issues Bond with the weapon (the real Boothroyd held no military rank).
Although Bond is using his six-bullet .380 Walther PPK pistol while Scaramanga uses the golden gun, Scaramanga states that "[He] only need[s] one"—Bond's superior number of bullets being offset by Scaramanga's advantages of fighting on his own ground.
Used to detect Bond's Walther PPK. [81] Whistle-activated keychain ... Equipping James Bond: Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sinclair referred to the gun – made famous by Sean Connery in the 007 film Dr No – as a ‘James Bond ting’.
Tomorrow Never Dies marked the first appearance of the Walther P99 as Bond's pistol. It replaced the Walther PPK that the character had carried in every Eon Bond film since Dr. No in 1962, with the exception of Moonraker in which Bond was not seen with a pistol. Walther wanted to debut its new firearm in a Bond film, which had been one of its ...
The Walther PPK pistol is famous as fictional secret agent James Bond's gun in many of the films and novels: Ian Fleming's choice of the Walther PPK directly influenced its popularity and its notoriety. [8] [9]