stg44 in movies

matthall · Post by **matthall** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 10:32 pm

I just saw an stg44 for the first time ever in a movie and it wasn't the kind of movie you'd expect. It was in a movie called "All the queens men" with Matt Leblanc from friends. At the end of the movie a member of Matts gang is holding what looks to as a stg44. Could anyone defy or verify if that actually is a stg44? Have anyone seen a stg in any other movie?

ratdog · Post by **ratdog** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 2:22 am

A movie with Matt LeBlanc? Are you sure it wasn't called "All the Men Are Queens"?!?!?!

matthall · Post by **matthall** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 6:56 am

ratdog wrote:A movie with Matt LeBlanc? Are you sure it wasn't called "All the Men Are Queens"?!?!?!

He he, no but the movie sure implied it. The story was about four guys dressing up as women to be able to get into a factory that manufactored enigma machines. Not a very good movie though.

Roger Griffiths · Post by **Roger Griffiths** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 7:56 am

It's only people like us that have even heard of a StG44.

Roger

ctschatz · Post by **ctschatz** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 9:41 am

Battle of the Bulge has one in it for a few seconds. In the bunker when they bring in the german prisoners.
Christian

Danny · Post by **Danny** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 9:55 am

@ Matthall

A screen shot would ease up the clear identification as I have not seen the movie...and not to keen on seeing it

Regards

matthall · Post by **matthall** » Tue Jun 24, 2003 10:52 am

Danny wrote:@ Matthall

A screen shot would ease up the clear identification as I have not seen the movie...and not to keen on seeing it

Regards

I'm sorry but i only rented the movie. It's not that bad a movie though.

pak40 · Post by **pak40** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 4:30 pm

also their was one standing up against a building in,
"The Guns of Navarone"

Chris

FJR5 · Post by **FJR5** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 2:07 pm

I have seen a photo from Band of Brothers with the cast at rest and one of them has a Stg 44. However I cant see the same extra in the episode. (The Ardennes episode.) So used but not seen!

Gary B · Post by **Gary B** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 7:21 pm

The movie titled, "Judgement at Dawn" or maybe "Decision at Dawn" is the story of captured German soldiers going back into Germany (in the final months of the war) as spies on behalf of the allied forces. Based on true events and filmed in Germany in the late 40's, there are several scenes of SS and field gendarmes armed with Stg. 44, looking for possable deserters.
Great shots with lots of detail of a wide variety of uniforms, weapons, and vehicles. Women stacking bombing debries, the bar girl with one leg, the fanatics and the defeatists and everyone in between. No real bad guys, just really bad times... REAL BAD TIMES... Hey folks, for my money this is one of the best, a powerfully realistic portrayal of what life may have been like in Germany towards the end of the war.

MilitaryMan8472 · Post by **MilitaryMan8472** » Thu Jun 26, 2003 10:02 pm

Roger Griffiths wrote:It's only people like us that have even heard of a StG44.

Roger

and anyone who has played "Medal of Honor"

WMDGreen · Post by **WMDGreen** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 7:26 am

Hello matthall

The Sturmgewehr 44 also appears in at least one of the Michael Caine 'Harry Palmer' movies, 'Funeral in Berlin' (1966), being carried by 'East' German soldiers, presumably as a substitute for the AK47, which wasn't available for use by film companies in the West, at that stage of the Cold War era (pre-'Rambo'!).

I can't remember seeing the Stg44 actually being fired in a movie, I would presume it's because of the rarity of the ammo, maybe they've never made blanks in this calibre ?

I can recall seeing a 'dressed up' Stg44 in 'The Empire Strikes Back', being used by one of the rebel army during the ice planet Hoth battle scenes.

mentos · Post by **mentos** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 5:18 am

A bit of topic but I found a intresting movie of a stg44 in action. I forgot from wich site i found it on.

http://members1.chello.nl/c.bes2/stg44.mpeg

matthall · Post by **matthall** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:41 am

Thanks y'all!
Especially for that movie, it was awesome!

David Gregory · Post by **David Gregory** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 3:59 pm

The reference above to a lack of AK47s for portrayal of East German forces is not entirely correct.

Like other items of wartime ordnance, the StG family of weapons continued to be used by the East German armed forces, police units and workers militias for some time after the war. Some of the better known images are of factory militia protection brigades carrying StGs in parades.

There are also a fair number of magazine pouches of East German and Czech post-war manufacture still being offered as pre-May 1945 German items. Frequently encountered pouches are often made of dark blue canvas, for example.

Western intelligence services also reported use of StGs in areas of terrorist activity, presumably from stocks captured by the Soviets, with examples being found in South-east Asia, the Middle East and South America.

Standard 7.92x33 ball ammunition made during and after the war, often by the same companies in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, still sometimes appears on the surplus market with post-war labels. The weapons were also used by Greece, at least, and ammunition was also produced in Spain and Argentina. Relabeled wartime German was offered commercially in the US in the 1950's and also for evaluation trials of the early FN-FAL chambered for 7.92x33.

Examples of post-war magazines and ammunition and re-labeled wartime German rounds can be seen in Peter Senich's "The German Assault Rifle: 1935-1945".

David

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