Movie sightings, it wasn't a Luger, but...
 

It wasn't a Luger but I had to post this any way. Was watching a movie in which the period was the Kansas "war" just before the outbreak of the Civil War. All the shooting was being done with SAA Colts and Winchester lever actions. What a hoot!

Got me thinking, Unspellable. Without intending to hijack your subject, what is the worst example of period incorrectness you have ever seen of a firearm in a movie? Mine was a Civil War line up and the soldiers were marching in the twilight after a battle with their rifles slung over their shoulders in various manners. There was clearly defined Arisaka on one. Another was a Japanese soldier shooting Americam POWs with a P38.

rk

In The Rocketeer we see the heavie's troops (Nazi paramilitary types, not real military, takes place in the US.) packing P38's circa 1934 or 1936.

In the Movie about Rourke's Drift in the Zulu wars the good guys are packing the Webley MkVI.

But I think the pre-Civil War SAA's and lever guns are the most outrageous I've seen.

On the correct side of the ledger I saw a guy in a late period Western with a new fangled Mannlicher pistol. It was something of a curiosity.

I've heard it said that it's traditional for the genteel officer class heavy to have a Luger while the creepy heavy has a Broomhandle.

Just got to thinking. It's not firearms, but the most wildly anchronistic hardware I've seen are all those King Authur and the Round Table epics where the boys are running around in boiler plate suits. Full body hard shell armour did not become stylish until around 900 years after King Aurthur's time.

Would it be completly incorrect for WW2 period Japanese to use, or have access to, German small arms?

How about Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc? 1936 and the Germans are armed with P-38s...

Muzzle loading longarms and single action handguns only evoke fear from the participants. Not from .... If we had to face them.... I feel for the modern movie spectator that doesn't understand. If it doesn't bang fast enough it's no good. The producer does'nt care. On the Combat (1960's) show the German K98 bolt action shoots multiple shots without touching the the bolt. How did they do that? Vic Morrow say it ain't so... Sarge...arggg......

Johnny, They got the P38's off the guys in The Rocketeer.

I bought one of those DVD's of old western movies and it was right after the civil war, since the SSA was the 1873 model, it is hard for me to see how it was used in the 1860's... Hollyweird, they have trouble with reality.

Ed