(at around 8 mins) When Spade and Tom Polhaus are discussing the murder of Archer, Polhaus says the murder weapon is a "Webley". Spade then goes on to describe the weapon as a "Webley-Forsby (sic), .45 Automatic, 8-shot". The manufacturer was Webley-Fosbery, though Sam may have just mispronounced it, but the similarity to "Thursby" is striking. What is most definitely wrong is the Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver was chambered in two calibers, .455 Webley MK II (not .45, a minor discrepancy) and .38 ACP. The .455 had only a six-shot capacity, and the .38 caliber was the 8-shot variant. The .455 Webley MK II was an unusual cartridge and would have been quite hard to find after 1915, the end of production for the pistol. The .38 ACP was more common and is still available today. In the Dashiell Hammett book, the weapon is correctly referred to as a .38 caliber, 8-shot.
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