The M203 grenade launcher custom-made for Brian De Palma's 1983 gangster classic was sold to a prop house after production wrapped, and later appeared in other films including 'Predator.' With the possible exception of 'Dirty' Harry Callahan's. Global Metal Movie Download Torrent more. 44 Magnum, Tony Montana's 'Little Friend' might be the most famous firearm in movie history. Montana (Al Pacino) graciously introducing his compadre — a custom-made M203 grenade launcher replica attached to a Colt AR-15 assault rifle — to Alejandro Sosa's thugs during the climactic firefight in Brian De Palma's Scarface landed. (Coincidentally, Dirty Harry's 'Do I feel lucky?'

The M203 grenade launcher was introduced in 1969 and used extensively by the U.S. Military during the Vietnam War. But Tony's had to be fabricated by the studio props department because Scarface prop master John Zemansky couldn't find a manufacturer willing to sell him an actual, live-firing M203. The launcher is not technically illegal to possess (or at least it wasn't in California in the early '80s), but it is classified as a 'destructive device' under the National Firearms Act and requires a special license to own. 'I basically manufactured one that looks exactly like the real one except that I put a different trigger system in so it would fire a blank cartridge,' says Zemansky, who had five duplicate launchers made for the production. 'We put a sleeve in [the barrel] to accept what kind of cartridge we wanted.'