Carcano Rifle Series

The "Royal Infantry Musket" Mannlicher-Carcano-Parravicino Rifle series is a group of Italian made bolt-action rifles and carbines that began with the Infantry Model 1891 and continued with rifles like the M1938, M91/38 and M91/41 until the end of the Second World War. It was the ordinance rifle used by Italian Soldiers in the First Italo-Ethiopian War (1896-1898) through to the Second World War.

The M91/38 Short version Rifle for Cavalry with a six-round magazine and scope, became infamous as the rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald used to assassinate JFK.

Carcano M91 Rifle

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Carcano M91 Long Rifle - 6.5x52mm

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Mountains on Fire		Italian sniper	with a French APX Mle 1917 scope	1931
Attention! Bandits! (Achtung! Banditi!)	Unknown	Young partisan		1951
A Farewell to Arms		Italian soldiers		1957
The Great War (La grande guerra)	Alberto Sordi	Oreste Jacovacci		1959
	Vittorio Gassman	Giovanni Busacca
	Folco Lulli	Bordin
		Italian soldiers
The Four Days of Naples		Italian Resistance fighters		1962
The Shortest Day (Il giorno più corto)		Italian soldiers		1963
The Battle of Neretva		Italian soldiers		1969
Many Wars Ago		Italian troops		1970
Novecento	Gérard Depardieu	Olmo		1976
Blood Feud		Fascists Blackshirts		1978
Lion of the Desert		Fascists Blackshirts		1981
Time to Kill (Tempo di uccidere)		Italian soldiers		1989
Mediterraneo		Italian squad		1991
Up at the Villa		Italian soldiers		2000
Captain Corelli's Mandolin		Italian troops		2001
El Alamein - The Line of Fire		Italian troops		2002
Gallipoli: End of the Road	Gürkan Uygun	Mushin	mocked as Mosin Nagant M1891 with scope	2013
Gallipoli: End of the Road	Fikret Yildirim Urag	Capt. Ibrahim Adil	mocked as Mosin Nagant M1891 with scope	2013

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Forgotten Hope				2003
Forgotten Hope 2			W/o bayonet	2005
Mare Nostrum				2008
Battle of Empires : 1914-1918	Carcano			2014

Carcano M91/38 Short Rifle

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Carcano M91/38 - 6.5x52mm. The Model 38 (Fucile di Fanteria Mod. 1938) in 7.35x51mm caliber is very similar.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Bandits of Orgosolo (Banditi a Orgosolo)		A carabinier		1961
The Battle of Neretva		Italian Soldiers		1969
Executive Action	Paul Carr	Assassination conspirator		1973
The Boss	Henry Silva	Nicola Lanzetta	With rifle grenade launcher	1973
We Want the Colonels (Vogliamo i colonnelli)		Paramilitaries		1973
Shriek of the Mutilated	Tawm Ellis	Dr. Karl Werner		1974
The Last Four Days		Italian partisans		1974
Silent Action		Terrorists		1975
Young, Violent, Dangerous (Liberi armati pericolosi)		A forest ranger		1976
I Am the Law (Il prefetto di ferro)		Italian Carabinieri		1977
Sahara	Lambert Wilson	Jaffar		1983
Sahara	Brooke Shields	Dale Gordon		1983
Sahara		Nomadic tribes fighters		1983
Flashpoint			Found in old car	1984
Time to Kill (Tempo di uccidere)		Abyssinian partisans		1989
JFK	Gary Oldman	Lee Harvey Oswald		1991
	Frank Whaley	Fake Oswald
	Kevin Costner	Jim Garrison
Up at the Villa		Italian soldiers		2000
El Alamein - The Line of Fire		Italian Troops		2002
In Her Line of Fire		The rebels		2006
The Roses of the Desert		Italian Troops		2006
Watchmen	Jeffrey Dean Morgan	The Comedian/Edward Blake		2009
Running Against Time	James DiStefano	Lee Harvey Oswald
Gallipoli: End of the Road	Ben Warwick	Cpl. William Eagle	modified, with a scope	2013
Gallipoli: End of the Road		Australian soldiers	mocked as Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III*	2013

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Quantum Leap	Scott Bakula	Lee Harvey Oswald	Season 5, Episode 1 & 2: "Lee Harvey Oswald - Oct 5, 1957-Nov 22, 1963: Part 2"	1989-1993
Red Dwarf	Toby Aspin	Lee Harvey Oswald		1992-1999
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!	Teller	Himself	"Conspiracy Theories" (S3E3)	2005
The Kennedys	Ryan Blakely	Lee Harvey Oswald		2011
Level 9		An assassin	Ep. "Wetware"

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault				2002
Forgotten Hope				2003
Forgotten Hope 2			W/o bayonet	2005
Red Dead Redemption	"Carcano Rifle"		anachronistic	2010

Carcano M91/38 Cavalry Carbine

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Carcano M91/38 Cavalry Carbine with folded bayonet - 6.5x52mm

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta)		Italian soldiers and carabiniers		1945
In the Name of the Law		Carabiniers		1949
A Farewell to Arms		Italian military police		1957
The Law Is the Law		French policeman		1958
The Great War (La grande guerra)		Carabinieri		1959
Everybody Go Home! (Tutti a casa)		Italian troops		1960
Divorce Italian Style	Leopoldo Trieste	Carmelo Patanè		1961
Divorce Italian Style		Italian soldiers		1961
Bandits of Orgosolo (Banditi a Orgosolo)		Carabiniers and bandits		1961
Salvatore Giuliano		Carabinieri, Italian soldiers		1962
The Four Days of Naples	Luigi De Filippo	Cicillo		1962
		Italian Resistance fighters
The Organizer (I compagni)		Italian Army cavalrymen		1963
Anzio		Italian Soldiers		1968
The Battle of Neretva		Italian soldiers and partisans		1969
Five for Hell		An Italian Carabinier		1969
The Eighth (Osmiyat)		A resistance fighter		1969
Confessions of a Police Captain		Carabinieri		1971
Blood Brothers (I guappi)		Carabinieri		1974
The Last Four Days		Italian partisans		1974
Libera, My Love (Libera, amore mio ...)		Carabinieri, Italian soldiers		1975
Rocky	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky Balboa	Seen behind a radiator in apartment	1976
I Am the Law (Il prefetto di ferro)		Prisoner guards		1977
Night Riders (Nocní jazdci)	Jozef Adamovic	Smuggler Imro Jakuvec		1981
The Fall of Italy (Pad Italije)		Italian occupation forces, partisans and chetniks		1981
The Sicilian		Carabiniers and soldiers		1987
The Godfather Part III	Mario Donatone	Mosca		1990
Up at the Villa		Fascist		2000
Captain Corelli's Mandolin		Italian artillery troops		2001
	Nicolas Cage	Captain Antonio Corelli
El Alamein - The Line of Fire		Italian Troops		2002
The Roses of the Desert		Italian Troops		2006

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Mythbusters			"Exploding Toilet" (S01E04); "Myths Revisited" (S02E01); "Seasickness - Kill or Cure" (S03E19); "Shredded Plane" (S04E02); "Firearms Folklore" (S04E25)	2003-Present

Video Game

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Karma Online	"Carcano M91"			2011

Carcano M91 TS (Special Troops) and M91/24

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Carcano M91 TS - 6.5x52mm. This was the first type heavily adopted by artillery and military engineering, after about fifteen years of exterior modifications. Note the cross-type bayonet lug, standard sling loop and smaller rear sight.

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Carcano M91 TS Modificato (Modified) - 6.5x52mm. Note the standard bayonet lug. The modified 91 has an additional left side back sling loop for a more comfortable carry on the back (specifically asked by artillery and engineering, who were doing a lot of manual work).

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Carcano M91/24 - 6.5x52mm. This rifle does not come from Special Troops series, as is often mistakenly considered. In reality the M91/24 is a shortened M91 long rifle, as can be seen from the standard rear sight.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Mountains on Fire		Italian soldier	M91 TS	1931
A Farewell to Arms		Italian military police	M91 TS M	1957
The Four Days of Naples	Frank Wolff	Salvatore	M91 TS M	1962
	Franco Sportelli	Prof. Rosati	M91/24
		Italian Resistance fighters	M91 TS M and M91/24
Kill Rommel!		Italian Troops		1969
Free Hand for a Tough Cop	Claudio Cassinelli	Commissioner Antonio Sarti	M91/24 with rifle grenade launcher	1976
Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti)		Italian police	M91 TS M	1976
I Am the Law (Il prefetto di ferro)		Carabinieri	M91/24	1977
Blood Feud		Fascist	M91 TS M	1978
Mediterraneo		Boy	M91/24	1991
The Roses of the Desert		Italian Troops	M91/24	2006
		Italian Troops	M91 TS M

Carcano M91/41

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Carcano M91/41 Rifle - 6.5x52mm

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Mediterraneo			Seen in a hidden armory	1991

Video Games

Game Title	Referred as	Note	Release Date
Sniper Elite III			2014
Sniper Elite 4			2017