Movie Lugers List--Spring 2006

[ithacaartist]

Originally Posted by Mister Sunshine

I watched the movie, Where Eagles Dare last night and I saw more that one Luger. I hated to see the way they kept dropping or throwing them around. In one of the closing scenes on the cable car a spy is trying to shoot Clint who is on the roof and after the third shot the gun is empty and he snaps it again, twice I think, neat trick and then he hurls it to the floor. It always amazed me that the actors in movies would throw there pistols away when empty, even in westerns.

I sort of remember that, but more have the impression that the gun would be the last possible projectile directed toward the opponent--providing, of course, they were within "doinking" distance...

[Mister Sunshine]

I watched a really dumb movie last night Staring Dick Powel. The story line being about his search for a NAZI collaborator who was responsible for his wife's death. Powel went thru the entire movie acting like he was on some kind of drug. He was looking for the man in Argentina. When he got to his hotel room in Buenos Aires he pulled a Luger out of his waist band a jacked a round into the chamber. No cavity searches when you got on a plane in those days. He never got around to pulling the trigger on the pistol but he did throw it across the room and knock over a lamp with it. He kept getting into traps set by the NAZIS and getting wacked over the head. They knocked the Luger out of his hand in the final scene and hitting him on the gourd with it. The bad guys ended up shooting each other and the Luger was left laying on the floor when the police came and left. All & all a really stupid movie. Someone may have listed this film on this forum before. I have not read them all.