K43 sniper at the movies

RyanE · Jul 26, 2020

I like watching old B-movies from the 40s and 50s and saw this last night watching a Bogart movie I had never seen before, The Enforcer from 1951. A K43 sniper!

It only has the one appearance on the rooftop unfortunately. Here is a high quality clip of the scene on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyr0xoj8gOg

Roger S · Jul 26, 2020

That is cool! Have seen them pop up in episodes of Combat now and again.

Gunrunner · Jul 26, 2020

RyanE, clear your inbox. Chuck

my66coupe · Jul 26, 2020

Ryan,

Check out “Suddenly” with Frank Sinatra. Probably the same rifle!

Wilhelm · Jul 26, 2020

Neat! They even got the reticle right!

mdarnell19 · Jul 26, 2020

Ha. That's cool.

ebeeby · Jul 27, 2020

Very cool. The actor with the rifle never fired one before....

k98dave · Jul 27, 2020

Always wonder where all those "WW2 movie guns" wound up going, and especially the old western stuff. There were no repro's back then, I still kringe when I see how they just tossed them in the dirt and bounced off the rocks etc. I have seen on occasion some with studio property markings.

my66coupe · Jul 27, 2020

YouTube has the full movie. Looks like a panel cut.

Remfan · Jul 27, 2020

k98dave said:
Always wonder where all those "WW2 movie guns" wound up going, and especially the old western stuff. There were no repro's back then, I still kringe when I see how they just tossed them in the dirt and bounced off the rocks etc. I have seen on occasion some with studio property markings.

Yeah me too dave! I have read that a lot of those six shooters in the cowboy flicks were actually guns made by Great Western that was producing Colt single action knock-offs in the 50s-60s. The thought of a genuine SAA being tossed on the ground makes me cringe too!

R.Blue · Aug 5, 2020

You’ll see lots of G-43’s in the old tv show COMBAT!...don’t recall a sniper version though.

k98dave · Aug 5, 2020

R.Blue said:
You’ll see lots of G-43’s in the old tv show COMBAT!...don’t recall a sniper version though.

Yeah , watched a episode last night call "War of The Roses, German in 2nd story window fires, gets shot and drops it out the window. :facepalm:

mike radford · Aug 11, 2020

my66coupe said:
Ryan,

Check out “Suddenly” with Frank Sinatra. Probably the same rifle!

I saw that movie a couple of times. TCM plays it occasionally. Pretty decent movie and the G/K-43 is pretty clearly that.

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