Knight Without Armour: Difference between revisions
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Knight Without Armour: Difference between revisions
[[File:Knight Without Armour-Kar98AZ-1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|In the scene on the pier in the (fictional) town of Khalynsk a Red sailor at the left carries a Karabiner 98AZ.]]
[[File:Knight Without Armour-Kar98AZ-1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|In the scene on the pier in the (fictional) town of Khalynsk a Red sailor at the left carries a Karabiner 98AZ.]]
[[File:Knight Without Armour-Kar98AZ-3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Red sailor holds a Karabiner 98AZ in the scene in Vladinoffs' estate.]]
[[File:Knight Without Armour-Kar98AZ-2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Red sailor holds a Karabiner 98AZ in the scene in Vladinoffs' estate.]]
[[File:Knight Without Armour-Kar98AZ-3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A good view of the barrel and front sight of Kar 98AZ in the same scene.]]
[[File:Knight Without Armour-Kar98AZ-3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A good view of the barrel and front sight of Kar 98AZ in the same scene.]]
[[File:Knight Without Armour-Kar98AZ-4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Two Bolsheviks, escorting arrested Alexandra, carry Kar 98AZ rifles.]]
[[File:Knight Without Armour-Kar98AZ-4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Two Bolsheviks, escorting arrested Alexandra, carry Kar 98AZ rifles.]]
Knight Without Armour is a 1937 British adventure movie directed by Jacques Feyder and starring Marlene Dietrich and Robert Donat. The plot is set in Russia before the WWI and then during the Russian Civil War. A. J. Fothergill (Robert Donat), an agent of the British intelligence service, infiltrates the Russian revolutionary group under the name of Peter Ouranoff. After the failed attempt on Gen. Vladinoff he is arrested and sent to Siberia. After the Russian revolution of 1917, Fothergill-Ouranoff is freed and meets Gen. Vladinoff's daughter Alexandra (Marlene Dietrich) who is arrested by the Bolsheviks. Throughout numerous dangers, the pair escapes from both Reds and Whites and at last leaves the war-torn Russia.
Several officers of Russian Imperial Army and White Army, and a revolutionary sailor carry Webley .455 Mk VI revolvers as a replacement for common Russian Nagant M1895s that were probably unavailable for the moviemakers.
Mauser C96 pistols are widely used throughout the movie, used by Fothergill-Ouranoff (Robert Donat), Alexandra Adraxine (Marlene Dietrich), Russian Imperial police and Bolsheviks.
One of the Bolsheviks, escorting arrested Alexandra, is armed with a Mauser C96 "Large Ring Hammer" pistol (later he holds a Wartime Commercial model of C96). Supposedly same model of C96 is seen in hands of a Gorodovoy of Sankt-Peterburg police during the attempt on General Vladinoff.
Another Bolshevik, escorting Alexandra, is armed with a Mauser C96 "Rework" Model pistol. It has a post-war grip with side-to-side lanyard ring and short barrel like "Bolo" model but without the barrel band on the muzzle that allows to identify the pistol as "Rework" rather than a specially build "Bolo".
Russian Imperial soldiers, revolutionary soldiers and sailors, personnel of White and Red Armies are armed with Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles, mostly, if not all, of Infantry model. Many rifles have the slings attached on swivels rather than in slots that indicate the early version of M1891 Infantry rifle.