First time these weapons appeared in film...

[Cmdr. Gravez0r]

Looking for the first pictures these weapons made an appearance in. Just for kicks. I don't know the answers to these, so feel free to show off!

1. M1 Garand
2. Mosin Nagant (any variant)
3. M-14
2. AK-47
3. Uzi (any variant)
4. M-16
6. Dragunov type

Or an others you can think of...

 

[highorder]

as for the M-16, how about "The Green Berets"- 1968

 

[H2O MAN]

The M14 appeared on The Beverly Hillbillies: Military School -- December 15, 1965.

 

[buck00]

Unless there were some cheesy B movies I'm not thinking of, the Steyr AUG was in Die Hard (1988). I know a lot of gun-lovers who never saw one in a film before that.

"Schiessen das fenster."
"Was?"
"Shoot the glass!"

 

[jerkface11]

I've wanted an AUG ever since I saw that movie as a kid.

 

[buck00]

Just to keep playing. I remember the Russian SVD being featured in Rambo III. After Sly crashes the Hind helicopter, he grabs one and runs off. I remember seeing it and thinking it was a bad-ass rifle.

However, its ironic he was helping the future Taliban! (well so were we)

I can't say enough about this rifle. I mean come on, if the ban against Norinco was dropped and you could get a Dragunov for under $1000.... would you snatch one up?

 

[slzy]

i don't know the answer, but first appearence of a Spencer?

 

[Silvanus]

I've never seen an FNC before HEAT. But that doesn't mean it was the first movie that had one.

 

[GarandOwner]

I can't say enough about this rifle. I mean come on, if the ban against Norinco was dropped and you could get a Dragunov for under $1000.... would you snatch one up?

I wouldnt pay anything nearly close to that for a real Dragunov. No offense to you if you own one, but I had a Russian SVD....and I was not impressed. A decent scoped M14 could outshoot the SVD any day. Best accuracy I could ever get out of it was around 1.5 MOA (not bad, but for the price you could get something more accurate) From the few and far between that I have met that have/had a dragunov. On a plus I did buy mine new, and sold it used for 2x the price

The Garand first appeared on film in 1941.....in the Garand training video (better than most movies nowadays ) only kidding, I have a copy of "Battleground!" from 1949.....but Im sure there is an earlier movie out there about WWII with the garand in it.

 

[Cosmoline]

I'm assuming we're NOT including newsreels and non-fiction films here.

Mosin Nagant (any variant)
Battleship Potemkin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/) has the earliest scene with them I know of, filmed in 1925. They're actually part of one of the most famous scenes in motion picture history. But there may well be an earlier Russian film that had lesser scenes with them.

The Garand is almost impossible to answer. It went from being invisible on film to being ubiquitous somewhere around 1943. The war department must have actually issued Hollywood a batch of them at some point. The very earliest WWII film I have is "Bataan" from 1943, which didn't have any since it was set in the early fighting in the Pacific.

 

[Gingerbreadman]

Unless there were some cheesy B movies I'm not thinking of, the Steyr AUG was in Die Hard (1988).

For whatever reason, Russian soldiers (maybe East German) had the Steyr AUG in Octupussy.(1983)

 

[Janos Dracwlya]

I believe the first appearance of the M-16 was in the film Seven Days In May (1964).

 

[Jason_G]

I believe the first appearance of the M-16 was in the film Seven Days In May (1964).

I remember watching the "extras" in "We Were Soldiers", and they laid claim in the commentary to being the first film to ever use "real M16's". So what were the rifles in the earlier films? AR's? Or was the editor (or director, I can't remember) just wrong when they said that in the commentary?

Jason

 

[strangelittleman]

S&W M29 ( w/a 4"bbl) In "Point Blank", 1967, used by Lee Marvin.
Also the S&W M76 smg, used by Lee Marvin in "Prime Cut", at about the same time as Chuck Heston used it in "The Omega Man" in 1971-72.
H&K P9s used in "St.Ives" by Charlie Bronson & John Houseman.
S&W Combat Masterpiece M15 (4"bbl), in "The Blue Knight" w/ William Holden, 1973.
Savage99 in "Death Hunt" 1981

 

[MikePGS]

Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 Watt Range The Terminator

 

[otcconan]

Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 Watt Range The Terminator

BFG-9000, "Doom."

 

[Medusa]

Oh yeah, the BFG9000, acronym for Big ... Gun. You know what the F stands for

 

[Cromlech]

The Steyr Aug was used by a female Soldier in an episode of Doctor Who in the 80's. She was on top of a vehicle with it. I can not remember her name, or the exact episode (or even season), but the image of that rifle stuck with me.

 

[Ithaca1937]

I'd get one.

 

[ohioarmedneutrality]

1919 Harold Lloyd short titled A Sammy in Siberia has some good gunplay, but I can't pinpoint any Mosin Nagants, which would make sense for the Bolsheviks. Perhaps one of you can determine what they have. It almost looks like Springfield trapdoors or something, but I could be totally mistaken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulMQzB-_9yw

 

[baz]

Hey, strangelittleman, those don't count. This is the rifle forum.