Steinar,

Thanks for that pic.

And Gerben,

I missed it when you added pictures to your "No Way Back" post, thanks much for the details.

--Dwight

Added an entry for "Young Frankenstein".

--Dwight

An episode of 'The Family Guy'.

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

Link to the clip on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGUNqyhSFpc

Furthermore a British movie is in the making, called 'Luger of the black sun'.

"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."

'He's Alive' episode of The Twilight Zone in which Dennis Hopper plays a 1950's era neo-Nazi in a US city. The ghost of Hitler hands him a real Luger to assassinate another character. Luger spits fire but toggles not seen to move.

Russell

Russel,

Thanks ever so much for the Twilight Zone episode reference. This was the one I had in mind when I included it in the first place--I remembered seeing it--but didn't know the episode's title and couldn't bring to mind the specific details.

--Dwight

Gerben,

Sorry that I missed the "Luger of the Black Sun" rerference under the "Family Guy" picture. Just caught it, and added it to the list.

--Dwight

There is another Twilight Zone episode where a crippled WW II vet shoots his daughter's hoodlum boyfriend with a bring-back Luger. Don't remember the name of the episode but it also shows a K98k hanging on the wall.

It was too hot to go outside today, so I added a new feature to the main Movie Lugers list. Check it out!

--Dwight

Dwight, if a norwegian movie would qualify for the list, I know a Luger is used in one of the 'Olsenbanden' movies.
There is a total of 14 Olsenbanden movies made, from 1969 until quite recently. Not sure wich one it was.. they are great fun, but I will NOT look trough them all to find that scene;)

Steinar,

Sure, why not? Added.

--Dwight

Just bought and watched "The Lighthorsemen". An Australian made movie about the Australian Lighthorse mounted Infantry's charge to capture the Well's of Abraham at Beersheba against the Turks in 1917. Great scenes of a Mauser C96 at the end of the movie.

Ron

Excellent subject, movies and lugers. There's a couple of luger shots in "Pan's Labyrinth", an excellent movie by the way.

Jim,

Thanks for the "Pan's Labyrinth" reference. Added.

--Dwight

Steinar-

What are the Olsenbanden Movies? Please explain to the clueless?

H

The episode of "The Twilight Zone" mentioned that has a guy in a wheel chair, is especially important as the ending credits are shown over a close-up of the Luger pointing at the camera. One of the longest if not the longest on-screen view you might come across...

You guys will now be among the very few outside of norway who knows;)
hmm.. never thought I would go into describing Olsenbanden on the Lugerforum, but here it goes;

Ok, Olsenbanden would be in English 'The Olsen (common norwegian last name) Gang'. It's a series of 14 (!) comedy movies about a very unlucky trio, the first one came out in 1969.
They are thiefâ??s who always get unlucky in the very end of each big coup they try. Their leader, Egon Olsen, always end up in jail and every new movie starts with him being released. They are all great fun ;)
http://www.dagbladet.no/download/olsenbanden.jpg

Just like the books about Morgan Kane (total of 83 books!), the Olsenbanden is very well known within Norway. Especially for those who where young in the 60s.
( When I was a much younger cowboy than today, I finished all these 83 books in my bed from the light of a candle :)
http://www.morgankane.no/English.html )

tedious information you say ey? Hah.. you asked for it ;)

Dwight, to be spesific.. it's in the opening sequence of the second movie that came out in 1970, "Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry". In english it would be something like 'The Olsen Gang and Dynamite Harry'

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think the Scorpio Killer used a luger in the first "Dirty Harry" Movie.

Jim

Scorpio, the killer in "Dirty Harry," used a WWII P.38 that he stole from a liquor story owner after bashing him over the head with a bottle of Seagram's. That is the pistol that he drops after being wounded by Clint.
In an earlier scene, Scorpio had an MP40 that he dropped after Clint stabbed him in the leg with an Italian picklock stiletto.

I did some research online and was able to track down the "Twilight Zone" episode that myself and Johnny previoulsy mentioned that has a good Luger scene where a paralyzed vet shoots a man with a Luger who was wanting to marry his daughter. The name of it is "The Self Improvement of Salvadore Ross." I saw this episode more than 20 years ago but have always remembered it for the Luger scene and also an earlier scene where the boyfriend chastises the father for having "crummy war souvenirs."I may buy it now. Would that make me a certifiable Luger addict if I buy a video just because it has a Luger scene?

Matt,

Thanks very much for taking the trouble to search this out. Details added.

Yep, certifiable...

--Dwight

In a scene in "Taxi Driver," Travis buys several handguns from "Easy Andy the Traveling Salesman." Andy opens up several suitcases full of illegal guns and one of them is a Luger. Travis did not pick up the Luger but there are several views of it. One of the pistols Travis does buy is misidentified as a .380 Walther. Not sure what it was, but it was not a Walther.
In other movies, I saw the end of "The Sound of Music" recently and the lead character, Von Trapp, is being chased through a cemetery by a young Nazi carrying a Luger. Trapp convinces the young Nazi to hand over his Luger.

Found another neat reference, this time on paper...

A Belgian example of a graphic novel. It's set in the New Guinea of the 1920s, following the adventures of a Belgian missonary and his young colleague. In this book, by Yann and L. Verron, published by Lombard in Brussels, 1996, the blues brothers make a cameo appearance.

ISBN 90.5581.061.4.

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

I read through as much of this thread as I could and didn't see a movie I saw years ago and didn't know the name of. It is black and white (so I assume it is old) and tells the tale of a group of American soldiers fighting the Germans. At one point one of the soldiers picks up a luger as a take-home war trophy. It turns out that the luger is haunted and discharges in the holster, the bullet passing through the soldier's femoral artery thus killing him. The luger is then picked up by another member of the group and mayhem ensues.

Anybody know the name of that one?

Matt,

Thanks for the new entries, added.

--Dwight

I guess nobody knows the movie Im talking about. I really want to rent it, I just wish I knew the name of it.

"Star wars" can be added to the list. The blaster that the Princess uses in the sequence where she is captured was built on a Luger. It's not too easy to make out on the screen though. I remember this from a magazine article I read back in the late '70's on Bapty & Co., the Brit weapons prop house that supplied the weapons for the film. I think it was in "Guns" magazine. Anyone have any vintage issues from that time frame? If I recall, there was a pic of the prop in the article.

Actually, Princess Leia's nifty little blaster started out as a Russian Margolin .22 cal. target pistol.

--Dwight

and Hans Solo's was a broomhandle

The rifles carried by the stormtroopers in Star Wars were MG34s.

Did someone say "broomhandle"? From the new film Resident Evil...

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/ResEvil96.jpg

..this is how the original picture looks like

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/03257_r.jpg

girl is still sexy dough ;)

Just seen this morning on TNT:

X-Files episode 'Triangle' in which Lugers are wielded by Nazis on a British luxury liner in a 1939 flashback. Lugers used in executions.

Russell

Well, I tried not to hijack this thread, but when I clicked on "new topic" I got a blank page every time, so....

A couple of weeks ago I was listening to XM's "Old Time Radio" and dragnet was on. A guy was threatening to kill himself. Friday indicated the intended method was by a "chromed Luger." The man threatening to kill himself stated he had killed a guard in Dachau in WWII and taken the pistol for himself.

Russell,

Added, thanks.

--Dwight

This has always been one of the most interesting topics on the Lugerforum. I remember the "Lost Brigade" and that one shot of a German soldier handing over an American prisoner to the Americans with a note requesting that the Americans surrender. A very deliberate shot of the German soldier changing hands that held the Luger pistol. Three errors were brought up by very sharp eyed forum members of that quick look see of a Luger. I started it out by mentioning that the Lugers magazine had an aluminum bottom on it. Definately not a WW1 magazine. Someone else brought up that the grips were East German repros. I can't remember the third error.

I have to look up in my history file to see if I can find the old movie list that some one on this forum used to keep. (Maybe Ted Green) The views of the Lugers were rated on a 1 to 5 star basis based on how good the view of the Luger was. Only movies were rated and not television serials.

I just went back on this topic to see if I could spot the third error and read Ed Tinkers note. Hey Ed, hows about an autographed picture of you in the background? This is your moment of glory. Your a real live movie star now. O-O-O WOW! :jumper:
Big Norm :typing:

"The ax" is about a guy who goes beserk with a Luger..

Not that I have seen the movie myself, so cant verify it.

I think it was on the History Channel, they are airing the "Young Indiana Jones" series. The later episodes covered his exploits during the Great War. While escaping from the Germans he uses a stolen Luger to defend himself.

Steven,

Added, thanks much

--Dwight

Dwight, is anyone keeping a running total, so we might set a goal!

Eric, go the the first page :)