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Here is a partial list of movies containing P-08's. Please let me know of any more to add. I will update this periodically. Thanks.


All Quiet on the Western Front (1931 version)

Anatomy of a Murder ***

Austin Powers--Man of Mystery

Battleground

Charade ***

Cobb

The Cross of Iron

The Deadly Tower

Desert Rats *

The Detective

The English Patient

Fatherland

The First Deadly Sin

For Your Eyes Only

Gorky Park ***

The Great Escape

The Great Race

Guns of Navarone

Hellâ??s Angels

The Heroes of Telemark

Hornetâ??s Nest

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Kellyâ??s Heroes

The Land that Time Forgot

The Maltese Falcon

Night of the Fox ***

The Notorious Landlady ***

Of Mice and Men

Mother Night

Public Enemy No. One

Rogue Male

Schindlerâ??s List ***

Sergeant York ***

Shadow of the Vampire **

Shining Through

Slaughterhouse Five

Son of Frankenstein

Stalingrad

Teenagers from Outer Space

Tobruk ***

Triple Cross

Twilight Zone--The Movie ***

The Valachi Papers

Von Ryanâ??s Express

Wall Street ***

Where Eagles Dare


***--High Luger presence, such 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 astericks---Not yet rated

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Add Three Stars to WED, Major Van Hapen has his strawed Luger out ready to shoot Germans, Americans, British and the the like a two minute scene with his Luger out and pointing the business end and waving and pointing with the mumuzzle. After Clint does in Van Hapen, then Cartright Jones picks it up and helps herd the British Double Agents through the castle to the cable car. This movie also shows P.38s and PPKs, pretty good for one movie and some MP-40s firing like mad. WOW that Mary Ure firing a Schmeisser did something to me when I was 14! Pity she died in mid 1970s.

Von Ryans Express (VRE) had a good deal of display and a couple of firings in Trevor Howards Hands. Indian Jones has the Luger firing and in another scene a close up of the muzzle pointed into the Austrian Spys throat at close range.

Again I must say how horrible Mother Night was! My three favorites, WED, TTZ, VRE and TLC! Your list is EXCELLENT++

We should ask Dok to put it permantly somewhere appropriate in General Information so we can all go rent a good Luger Movie when we need a Luger Fix. The Documentary from the History Channel should be on here also though it is an entirely different genre. Thor

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Thanks for the input. I am upgrading the list as I sit here. Is Indiana two or three stars?


Thanks

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Definetly 3 the shooting sequences are short but good. The close up is excellent. Thor

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How timely. Last night on AMC there was a typcal 1950's Korean war movie called "Marines, Lets Go" I just caught the last half. Not a great movie. 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.


I second the motion that we permanently keep a list of movies that contain lugers in them.

Big Norm

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It's going on the list. I would have guessed the Chicoms would have been more likely to use C96's or Tokarevs, but I suppose at some point they used a little bit of everything. Or what is more likely, the studio had just finished a Grade B Nazi movie and had plenty of Lugers in the prop room.


Thanks for the contribution!

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and not too many NAMBUies! Lol Thor

Great list, Mike!
 

I'll try to think of some more to add to it.

Matt