The Shining axe used by Jack Nicholson for sale as part Stanley Kubrick auction
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Excluive: Weapon is one of hundreds of items to be sold as part of the influential late director’s personal archiveThe axe wielded by Jack Nicholson as he delivered his chillingly manic line “Here’s Johnny!” in the 1980 horror movie The Shining is to go on sale.Nicholson’s charac...
Excluive: Weapon is one of hundreds of items to be sold as part of the influential late director’s personal archive
The axe wielded by Jack Nicholson as he delivered his chillingly manic line “Here’s Johnny!” in the 1980 horror movie The Shining is to go on sale.
Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, uses the axe to hack out an opening in a locked door protecting his terrified wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall. It is also the murder weapon in the killing of Scatman Crothers’ character, Dick Hallorann. One of cinema’s most famous axes could be yours for a list price of between £30,000 and £50,000.
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