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MAS-36
The MAS-36 is a French military bolt-action rifle. It was first manufactured by Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne (MAS) in 1937. Originally intended to replace the aging Lebel 1886 and Berthier Rifles in military service, only around 250,000 rifles were produced by the time of the Battle of France in 1940. Following the Second World War, production of the MAS-36 ramped up and the rifle was widely used by the French military during the conflicts of the early Cold War, such as the First Indochina War, the Suez Crisis, and the Algerian War. In all, 1.1 million rifles were manufactured between 1937 and 1952. It would be replaced by the semi-automatic MAS-49.
The MAS-36 took design inspiration from various rifles encountered by the French in the First World War, such as the Lee-Enfield, M1917 Enfield, and Gewehr 1898. Its design is very simple compared to earlier French military rifles, with just five parts removable by the user. The MAS-36 would gain a reputation for being very simple, but extremely reliable. The MAS-36 was distributed to multiple African nations and Syria during the Cold War and continues to be used in regional conflicts in Africa and the Middle East.
Specifications
Type: Rifle
Caliber: 7.5x54mm French
Capacity: 5 round internal magazine
Fire Modes: Bolt Action
The MAS-36 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somewhere in France | French soldiers | 1942 | ||
| The Most Wanted Man (L'Ennemi public No 1) | Prison guards | 1953 | ||
| The Young Lions | French soldiers | 1958 | ||
| Dunkirk | French soldiers | 1958 | ||
| The World in My Pocket | Gendarmes | 1961 | ||
| Bells Without Joy (Carillons sans joie) | Vichy French soldiers | 1962 | ||
| The Unvanquished (L'Insoumis) | French soldiers and legionnaires | 1964 | ||
| Weekend at Dunkirk | French and British soldiers | 1964 | ||
| Topkapi | A Turkish soldier | 1964 | ||
| The 317th Platoon | Manuel Zorzo | Corporal Perrin | 1965 | |
| The Battle of Algiers | French soldiers | 1966 | ||
| Let's Not Get Angry (Ne nous fâchons pas) | Jean Panisse | Illegal gun dealer | 1966 | |
| Is Paris Burning? | French Resistance fighters | 1966 | ||
| Shock Troops (Un homme de trop) | Gérard Blain | Thomas | 1967 | |
| Med Hondo | Florent | |||
| Claude Brosset | Ouf | |||
| Resistance fighterts | ||||
| Patton | Moroccan soldiers | 1970 | ||
| The Gendarme Takes Off | French marines | 1970 | ||
| The Five Crazy Boys (Les Bidasses en folie) | Gérard Rinaldi | Gérard | 1971 | |
| Jean Sarrus | Jean | |||
| Gérard Filipelli | Phil | |||
| Jean-Guy Fechner | Jean-Guy | |||
| Luis Rego | Luis | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| The French Conspiracy (L'Attentat) | French police | Some fitted with smoke grenade launchers | 1972 | |
| The Day of the Jackal | French soldiers | 1973 | ||
| R.A.S. | Jacques Spiesser | Rémy March | 1973 | |
| Jacques Weber | Alain Charpentier | |||
| Jacques Villeret | Pvt. Girot | |||
| French soldiers and policemen | ||||
| The Conspiracy (Le complot) | French soldiers | In footage | 1973 | |
| Now Where Did the 7th Company Get To? (Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie?) | Jean Lefebvre | Pvt. Pitivier | 1973 | |
| French soldiers | ||||
| The Nada Gang | Police | Some fitted with smoke grenade launchers | 1974 | |
| Sadsacks Go to War (Les Bidasses s'en vont en guerre) | Gérard Rinaldi | Gérard | 1974 | |
| Jean Sarrus | Jean | |||
| Gérard Filipelli | Phil | |||
| Jean-Guy Fechner | Jean-Guy | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| The French Detective (Adieu, poulet) | Police snipers | MAS-36 with optic sights | 1975 | |
| The Seventh Company Has Been Found (On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie!) | French soldiers | 1975 | ||
| Drummer-Crab (Le Crabe-Tambour) | Jacques Perrin | Willsdorff | 1977 | |
| French honor guards | ||||
| The Escape (La carapate) | French gendarmes | 1978 | ||
| Wait for John Grafton (Gaidiet "Dzonu Graftonu") | Revolutionaries | 1979 | ||
| Le Guignolo | French police | Some with smoke grenade launchers | 1980 | |
| A Captain's Honor (L'Honneur d'un capitaine) | French soldiers | 1982 | ||
| The Shock (Le Choc) | Silvio's henchmen | Sporterized | 1983 | |
| Sahara | Nomadic tribes fighter | 1983 | ||
| Rookies Run Amok 2 (Le retour des bidasses en folie) | Gérard Rinaldi | Alfred | 1983 | |
| Jean Sarrus | Emile | |||
| Gérard Filipelli | Marcel | |||
| Luis Rego | Sgt. Lucien | |||
| French soldiers | ||||
| Dog Day (Canicule) | French gendarmes | 1984 | ||
| Les Morfalous | French legionaires and soldiers | 1984 | ||
| Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) | French police | 1985 | ||
| Subway | French CRS unit | 1985 | ||
| Volunteers | Chung Mee's guard | 1985 | ||
| The Fugitives | French gendarmes | 1986 | ||
| Operation Corned Beef | French gendarmes | 1991 | ||
| Diên Biên Phú | French Army | 1992 | ||
| Charlotte Gray | Vichy French police | 2001 | ||
| We Were Soldiers | French soldiers | 2002 | ||
| Deserter | Tom Hardy | Pascal Dupont | 2002 | |
| Paul Fox | Simon Murray | |||
| French Foreign Legionnaires | ||||
| The Quiet American | French and Vietnamese soldiers | 2002 | ||
| Dry Season | in Nassara' armory | 2006 | ||
| Days of Glory (Indigènes) | Sami Bouajila | Corporal Abdelkadar | With anachronistic, post-WWII hooded front sight | 2006 |
| Bernard Blancan | Sergent Roger Martinez | |||
| Free French soldiers | ||||
| The Golden Compass | Guards, Magisterium troops | 2007 | ||
| Intimate Enemies | French soldiers | 2007 | ||
| The Second Wind (Le Deuxième Souffle) | Nicolas Duvauchelle | Antoine Ripa | Sporterized, suppressed | 2007 |
| Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1 | French soldiers | 2008 | ||
| Female agents | Sophie Marceau | Louise Desfontaines | Sporterized, suppressed | 2008 |
| Djinns (Stranded) | Fellaghas | 2010 | ||
| Outside the Law | French soldiers and Gendarmerie | 2010 | ||
| A Gang Story (Les Lyonnais) | French police | 2011 | ||
| Rebellion | Sepratists | 2011 | ||
| Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed | French partisan | 2012 | ||
| Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart | French gendarmes | 2014 | ||
| White Soldier | French soldiers | 2014 | ||
| Far from Men | Algerian rebels | 2014 | ||
| The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale | Korean hunter | 2015 | ||
| Dunkirk | French soldiers | 2017 | ||
| Darkest Hour | French soldiers | 2017 | ||
| To the Ends of the World (Les confins du monde) | French soldiers | 2018 |
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Road in the Dunes (Ilgais cels kapas) | A German soldier | Ep.4 | 1982 | |
| Dunkirk | French soldiers | 2004 | ||
| Deadliest Warrior | French Foreign Legion | 2010 | ||
| Clara Immerwahr | French soldiers | 2014 | ||
| Spy City | French soldiers | Ep. 04, 06 | 2020 |
Anime
| Film Title | Character | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steamboy | 2005 | ||
| Izetta: The Last Witch | Elystadt forces | 2016 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medal of Honor: Underground | Possibly used by Vichy French Milice enemies | 2000 | ||
| World War II Online: Battleground Europe | French Rifleman and Sapper class | 2001-2012 | ||
| Forgotten Hope | 2003 | |||
| Hidden & Dangerous 2 | "MAS MLE 36" | 2003 | ||
| Call of Duty 2: Big Red One | "MAS 36 Rifle" | 2005 | ||
| Forgotten Hope 2 | "FR MAS Mle 36" | Can be fitted with bayonet and Viven-Bessières grenade launcher | Added in v2.6 (2022) | 2007 |
| 7554 | "MAS 36" | 2011 | ||
| World of Guns: Gun Disassembly | MAS 36 | bayonet | 2014 | |
| Call of Duty: WWII | "M36" | July 2019 update | 2017 | |
| Post Scriptum | Can mount bayonet | Introduced with "Plan Jaune" update | 2018 | |
| Enlisted | 2021 |
MAS-36 C39
The MAS-36 CR39 features an aluminum folding stock designed for paratroopers.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diên Biên Phú | French Army | 1992 |
MAS-36/51
In 1951, the MAS 36/51 variant was introduced, which features a strengthened barrel and a 22mm NATO-spec rifle grenade launcher.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bells Without Joy (Carillons sans joie) | Vichy French soldiers | Anachronistic | 1962 | |
| The Unvanquished (L'Insoumis) | French soldiers and legionnaires | 1964 | ||
| The Conspiracy (Le complot) | French soldiers | In footage | 1973 | |
| The Escape (La carapate) | French gendarmes | 1978 | ||
| The Professional | French gendarmes | Some with smoke grenade launchers | 1981 | |
| Dog Day (Canicule) | French gendarmes | 1984 | ||
| The Fugitives | French gendarmes | 1986 | ||
| Diên Biên Phú | French Army | 1992 | ||
| Intimate Enemies | French soldiers | Some with optic sights | 2007 | |
| Far from Men | Algerian Rebels | 2014 | ||
| The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale | A Korean hunter | 2015 |