"The Man Who Knew too much"
 

Watched this Hitch flick yesterday. I'm interested to know if the pistol used by the would be assassin was a Luger. I couldn't get a good loook at it, but the front sight didn't look right in the one head on closeup I noticed.

Interesting that this man needed opera glasses to look at the PM he was going to shoot, but was going to shoot with open sights and a pistol. Ah, dramatic technique.

This was the first time I'd seen that movie since seeing it in the theatre at about age 14 or 15.

Rod,

That's a good movie. The assassin was using a Husqvarna Lahti M-40 or Finnish M-35. Basicly the same pistol with minor differences.

Ron

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

Yep, that's it and I did wonder about the Lahti (didn't know about the Finnish). I figgered it'd be easier to ask our experts, of which I consider you to be one, than to try to research it.

Many thanks. It's awful to be so concerned about guns that we can't just enjoy a movie, isn't it? ;>

Oh, and an off topic question: When the kidnappers drove into the foreign embassy the sign was obscured and we couldn't tell whose it was. Were we supposed to get a hint from the few letters we saw, or not?

As soon as I saw the assassin put on the shoulder holster in the church, I was checking out the pistol. All I could see was the butt of the grip and it looked familiar, but couldn't quite figure it out. When they showed the close up of the front sight at the concert, I realized what it was.

I don't recall the Embassy sign.

Thanks, Ron. I caught just a glimpse of the pistol from the side sometime shortly before they focused on the muzzle/front sight. It looked "Lugeresque," but wasn't quite right.

The were, I think, three letters showing for the embassy name. Nothing I'd recognize as real, but I wondered if that were a clue to what they were intending us to recognize? Probably just an effort to prove sinister.