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Unread 05-04-2006, 02:50 PM   #1
Dwight Gruber
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Default Movie Lugers List--Spring 2006

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Its been awhile since anybody updated the Movie Lugers list, so I have.

I went back through all the postings and created one master list, and included whatever descriptive comments people made. The links in some of the entries take you to postings where pictures have been included.

I will maintain this list for awhile, if you have any additions or comments make them here and I will edit them into the list. If you have pictures or still frames of any of the movies listed, please post them in a separate post (not this thread) and I will add the link to this list.

The list has become too long (exceeds the single-post character limit), and so it is now split into two posts.

Have fun.

--Dwight

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All In The Family
Archie Bunker illegally purchased one in an old episode

Allo Allo episodes
British comedy series from the early '90s

All Quiet on the Western Front (1931 version)
as the Germans prepare to charge from the trenches, a very brief glimpse of an officer waving his Luger. Only one in this 1931 movie, I think, and very very brief.

Anatomy of a Murder ***

Anzacs (circa 1984?)
shows a good scene where the character Pat Cleary (played by Paul Hogan) returns to the Australian lines following a successful "ratting" trip with a group of German prisoners being herded home using a LP08.

Austin Powers--Man of Mystery

The Ax
About a guy who goes beserk with a Luger...

Babylon 5 episode "Gropos" **

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=15148

The futuristic long arms in this science-fiction series have been reputed to have Luger grip frames as part of the prop. This can clearly be seen in this episode in a closeup a "hero" prop; the rear grip is clearly made from a Luger frame, and the added-on parts emulate a toggle and the Luger 'look'.

Ball of Fire
1941 comedy with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. End of the film features comic gangsters armed with LP08 and C96 which are fired full-auto. Lots of good shots of the pistols.

Band of Brothers **

Battleground

Battlestar Galactica (the new one) episodes "Pegasus" and "Resurrection Ship" **
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14588

Beerfest**
Brief menace by a big Momma/German agent with a luger.

Betrayed***

Blues Brothers ***

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...&threadid=7060

The Bulletproof Monk
They show it working in semi-slow motion so you see the action function.

Il Capo dei Capi***

For more pictures and description see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=18317

Cpt. Corelli's Mandolin
2 shots of the Luger

Charade ***

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...hlight=charade

Walter Matthau with some good close-ups of his Luger in the final climatic scene (although you could not ascertain the manufacturer, you could see that the gun had strawed parts--for some reason, my wife appeared underwhelmed by this revelation). I also seem to recall from seeing the film many years ago that there is a Luger water pistol used near the beginning.

Charlie Chan episode
an old Charlie Chan mystery movie that featured the use of an LP-08

Charlieâ??s Angels (the movie)***

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=12557

China Girl
Released in 1942, Gene Tierney, George Montgomey, Victor McLaglen (of John Wayne western movie fame as "Sgt Quincannon")

Multiple great clear shots of Lugers and holsters on a couple of the AVG fliers, and also by the main character and several others in the movie. Based on spies in China during japanese invasion and the flyboys of the AVG with a white female and male being jap spies on the AVG activities.

In one clear example, the main character "Johnny" played by George Montgomery asks to borrow the sidearm of his AVG buddy and he opens up a luger holster on his right hip and hands him the luger inside, he then uses it to threaten the jap spies at the breakfast table.......played by Lyn Bari ("Capt. Fifi") and McLaglen ("Major Weed")

A Christmas Story**


http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=13603

Thought this was an odd movie to find a Luger in. In the early sequence Ralphie dreams of evil marauders invading the back yard. Two of them appear to be holding Lugers.

Cobb
about the great baseball player Ty Cobb. At he beginning he was riding in a car during the winter with a guy who was supposed to do Cobbâ??s autobiography. The car was speeding on a bad winter road, and, I think, that Cobb was doing the driving. While Cobb was carelessly driving, he was waiving an artillery Luger around. All the while I was yelling at the TV, "Don't drop it Ty, you'll scratch it!".

Cold Case episode "Spider"***
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=19852

Congo ***


http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=13171

Cross of Iron**

CSI episode
There was a Luger shown on that show that a vet had. What was interesting was that before the investigators went to talk to the vet they had found a 9mm casing. Nothing exciting about that but when they were looking at the stamp on it to check the manufacturer it grabbed my attention. Stamped on it real nice and pretty were the letters DWM. I had a feeling they would be using a Luger as the vets weapon.

Days of Glory

The Deadly Tower
The TV movie about the mass murderer who shot people from the University of Texas observation tower, has a scene where Kurt Russell stuffs a Luger in his jacket. That is correct because the killer REALLY did have a Luger.

Death Wish
had a .45 Luger in another vigilante's hand.

Desert Rats *

Desperate Housewives episode ***

The Detective

Donovan's Brain ***
The assistant scientist tries to "assasinate" the disembodied brain with a Luger.

Enemy at the Gates *
Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Joseph Fiennes
The story of Russian sniper "Vasily Zaitsev" at the battle for Stalingrad....1 star rating for luger appearance......great for 98k and MP38/40 and russian rifles and TT tokarev and other and tanks and halftracks......Scenes of officers and e/m in headquarters and in battle scenes wearing luger holsters.........never saw a luger brandished in a scene......

The English Patient
shows at least one if not two Germans carrying Lugers.

Escape from Sorbibor

The Family Guy episode ***

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14608

Fatherland

The First Deadly Sin
Frank Sinatra carried one

Flashpoint episode "Scorpio" ***
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=19851

For Your Eyes Only

Freaks ***


A movie about a freak show and crime, starring real circus freak circa 1932. During the climactic action the Half Boy holds the beautiful trapeze artist (one of the bad guys) at bay with his Luger while the climax plays out.

I am adding a link to some frames of this scene rather than posting a separate entry for it in the clear. Although I do not find it particularly diturbing, you may want to decide for yourself whether or not you want to see a picture of Johnny Eck the Half Boy.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/freaksall.jpg

Gorky Park ***

The Great Escape **
close to the end when Steve McQueen liberates one from a German and prepares to defend himself with it.

The Great Race
with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon and Peter Faulk. We were watching it with my 10 year old son. When they were in the fictional country of Pottsdorff, I noticed all the soldiers were wearing what looked like shiny new Luger holsters. And sure enough, when one of the bad guys whips out his pistol, my Dad and I both yelled, "It's a Luger!"

Guns of Navarone

The Halls of Montezuma
1950 film staring Richard Widmark as Lieutenant Anderson the Platoon Leader.
Takes place on some un-named Pacific Island held by the Japanese.
One of the members of the platoon Pvt. "Pretty Boy" Riley played by actor Skip Homeier has a Luger he owned in civilian life (as shown in flashbacks) that he brought with him. He keeps twirling it much to the displeasure of Pvt. Slattery played by actor Bert Freed.
In the scene where they are in a foxhole together Slattery grabs the Luger and throws it out in the killing zone in front of the position
and Pretty Boy goes nuts.

Hannibal Brooks
in this 1969 comedy/drama Oliver Reed escapes from a Nazi stalag leading an elephant over the Alps to Switzerland. The evil proprietor of a private...oops, I meant the evil SS colonel...pulls his Luger from under his suit jacket and wings poor Oliver Reed in the shoulder.

Hellâ??s Angels

Hellboy***

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14528

The Heroes of Telemark

Hogan's Heroes ** episodes
Olâ?? Bob Crane (pity about his demise) was in an Germany Army Infantry Officerâ??s Uniform and he whipped out a Luger in a flash (I was amazed the speed that Luger pointed) at an SS officer!

In another episode Ol' Bob and another prisoner are being set up by a fake resistance group run by an SS General in disguise. Lugers are flashed as hand props at various times.

Hollywoodland***


A story about the death of Superman actor George Reeves, who committed suicide (or was murdered as some believed) with a Luger. In one scene, a child says, "Superman shot himself in the head with a Luger ... That's a Nazi pistol."

See more pictures at http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=18318

Hornetâ??s Nest

Ice
TV-movie, 1998. The ice age hits the LA area and a group of survivors tries to get out of trouble. A 'German Scientist' is offered a ticket out on a ship and the group of survivors tries to guide him to his pickup point, hoping for a place on board of the ship in return.

Early in the movie the scientist pulls a luger from his briefcase and threatens the occupants of a car with it. Nice, clear luger display.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160393/

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ***

Jet Pilot**
1957 movie with John Wayne and Jant Leigh has a sceen where she pistol whips Wayne with a Luger.

Kellyâ??s Heroes **

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14527

King Kong (the new one)***
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14120
Early on... the captain of the ship dispatches 3-4 cannibals on Skull Island with a LP-08. Nice thing about the scene is that the shots are done in slow-motion and one can really see the toggle action cycle and the bullets leaving the muzzle (done digitally...). Several other action scenes where the captain also wears a black LP-08 holster on his side...
(also the movie-based computer game http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14621)

King of the Hill episode "Full Metal Dust Jacket"***
Peggy Hill opens up the "Peggy's World of Books and Guns" store, along with Dale. Dale offers a 9mm Luger along with "any purchase of quality science-fiction" to a customer, who works the toggle action which is shown properly.

King of the Rocket Men ***

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14507

Kyouju Luger P08
(from IMDB) A shy, "librarian-type" office worker in the beginning, he comes into possession of a German Luger used in WWII and turns into a vigilante type. He lives with his sister, drinks endless bottles of Evian, and practices with the gun. One wonders how much English the Japanese cast could understand, as when Abe goes in search of bullets for his gun, he winds up in a foreigner-filled bar where some vulgar anti-Japanese sentiments are hurled his way. The black fella who sells Abe the bullets is particularly offensive. On a comical note, those ten bullets sure went a long way. It seemed like hundreds of rounds were fired! Apparently this film won awards in Japan. I don't know why.

The Land that Time Forgot
with Doug McClure. I think that in this movie olâ?? Dougy baby blows away some dinosaurs with an artillery Luger.

Lawrence Of Arabia *

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14589

Omar Sheriff carried a Luger I don't know if I remember seeing the pistol but he certainly was wearing a Luger holster

Lay3r Cake ***
An extended scene specifically of handling an LP08, ending with it's disassembly and photography of dialogue through a glass tabletop holding the parts.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ***

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14506

Legends of The Fall
Kristin (Val Kilmer) wrestles one from the hands of one of the Kaiser's Troops, and goes on a rampage with it killing many WWI German troups.

Lost episode


a Luger make an appearance on the island. It is kind of the usual Hollywood sort of mistake, they make on a usual basis. You can hear the guy **** the hammer as he pulls the Luger out...

The Lost Battalion ***

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14526

Luger of the Black Sun ***
From IMDB: "A Luger handgun from the Second World War with dark and mystical powers is found in modern day Bucharest and unwittingly taken to London. En-route it falls into the hands of a fascist media mogul intent on using it's power to bring the return of the Forth Reich."

The Maltese Falcon

The Man Who Never Was**
1956. WW2 British plant a corpse to mislead the nazis. The agent sent by the nazis to verify the identity of the corpse has a radio and a Luger in his rented room. I believe this is a true story. Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame...

The Matrix Reloaded **

For more pictures, see:
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=14525

Marines, Letâ??s Go ***
At the end one of the platoons men gets captured by the Chinese Communists. He is just about to get executed and my eyes zeroed in on the Chinese leader who was going to shoot him and he had a Luger that was going to do the deed. A few minutes later in the movie, the hero had just blown up a nest of Chinese with a granade who had a plunger rigged up to a lot of dynamite that would blow up a valley that a bunch of marines and tanks were going to pass through. One of the Chinese around the plunger was not killed by the grenade and he killed the American hero just before he himself died of his injuries. The Chinese soldier shot our guy with a Luger.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ***
Directed by Clint Eastwood.
The Luger is in a socialite's desk drawer; he shows it to the protagonist with the caution that it is loaded. It turns out to be the murder weapon later on.

The story is based on an actual crime.

Monty Python's Flying Circus episode


Comedy sketch "The Funniest Joke in the World" a Luger appears as a hand prop.

Mother Night

Mrs. Miniver ***
It was made in 1942. I happened upon a scene where an English woman finds a German pilot (I assume he had been shot down) hiding in her garden. He wakes up and covers her with his Luger and makes her take him inside to get food and drink. This Luger stays in full view prominently for several minutes; long enough for me to see that the safety is off and that there is no round in the chamber! After a few more minutes, he passes out and she takes the Luger and hides it.

The list is continued in the next post


*** High Luger presence, such as integral to plot, closeups, much footage, or good scene with Luger, etc.

** Minor Luger presence

* Mere hint of Luger, such as brief glimpse in battlefield, wearing of P-08 holster, etc.

No asterisks--Not yet rated

Last edited by Dwight Gruber; 10-03-2009 at 12:53 AM.
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