History Main / HollywoodSilencer

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Murder By Magic", one of the victims is shot with a revolver that is later stated to have had a sound suppressor on it to explain why no one heard the shot.

* The 1972 French comedy ''Film/TheTallBlondManWithOneBlackShoe'' featured several government spies with silenced guns that, when fired, emitted only a puff of smoke with no sound at all.
* Parodied in ''Film/LesTontonsFlingueurs'', a 1963 French movie. There is a gunfight scene, involving at least half a dozen people, each one wielding a silenced gun making a different sound, including one of a bottle being uncorked. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u800rP78Xg the scene]])
** Georges Lautner reused the same gag the next year in his spy comedy ''Film/LesBarbouzes''.

Basically, silencers control the discharge of gases that occur when a bullet is fired, which produce much of the sound. It's the RuleOfCool: Hollywood wants do depict a slealthy assassin or suave superspy make his hit in a public place, then [[StealthExpert melt into the night with nary a sound]].

* ''Film/McQ''. The opening murders of two policeman are committed with a .45 with a ridiculously short silencer. Later a witness is murdered with a silenced revolver. Only the silenced [[CoolGuns MAC-10]] sounds right, but as the Military Armaments Corporation was [[ProductPlacement using this movie to showcase the weapon]] it's not surprising.

* ''Film/SoylentGreen'' - Charlton Heston's character gets chased by some Mooks packing short-barreled revolvers fitted with silencers. It's handled surprisingly realistically; they emit a sort of dull, booming thump that's far from quiet, but which wouldn't be readily identifiable as gunfire at a distance.

* "Film/LethalWeapon2" has two instances of the bad guys doing this. The first time involving the secondary antagonist taking out one of his own incompetent subordinates is played a little more realistically as it makes a somewhat loud bang despite the popular sound effect. The second time involving an assassination of Leo Getz is played straight, on the other hand.

* "Film/LethalWeapon2"" has two instances of the bad guys doing this. The first time involving the secondary antagonist taking out one of his own incompetent subordinates is played a little more realistically as it makes a somewhat loud bang despite the popular sound effect. The second time involving an assassination of Leo Getz is played straight, on the other hand.

* Played perfectly straight in the dirty cop action film ''Film/SixteenBlocks'', where a hired hitman in the beginning tries to kill the witness with a silencer that esespecially soft and quiet.

* Played perfectly straight in the dirty cop action film ''Film/16Blocks'', where a hired hitman in the beginning tries to kill the witness with a silencer that esespecially soft and quiet.

%%* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': Henrietta carries a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_P90 Fabrique Nationale P90]] as her standard weapon (in a violin case, just to be cute). Later in the storyline, she uses it with a silencer (or more properly a suppressor).