Original Item: Only One Available. This is a full scale metal replica non-firing prop IMA UZI with folding stock as used in the 1985 Hollywood film Commando. Multiple UZI prop guns were used in making the movie and there is no way for us to know exactly which one this is,, but we do know it was used in making the film. The original ELLIS AUCTION LABEL IS STILL ATTACHED to the fore stock of this prop gun and reads DAY 5, LOT 5865 .
This fantastic example acquired from the Ellis Props and Graphics liquidation auction. Ellis was the oldest and the largest Prop Houses in the World until it went our of business in the early 2000s.
The vast Ellis collection was acquired beginning in 1908, when a pawn shop, Ellis Mercantile, began renting merchandise to early filmmakers. According to Ellis Props, it began when a studio employee wanted to buy a glass eye. The pawn shop decided to rent it in case the owner returned, and it continued the practice with other items.
Commando is a 1985 action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix, a former Special Forces commander who is forced to work for a deposed South American dictator or his daughter (Alyssa Milano) will be killed. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester and the cast includes Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, David Patrick Kelly, Bill Duke, and Vernon Wells. One of the weapons used by Matrix that appears in the the final assault is the full size IMI Uzi. He uses the Uzi when stealing the seaplane to reach Arius’ compound and during the final battle.