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Beretta Model 38
The Beretta Model 38, also known as Moschetto Automatico Beretta 38 (literally "automatic rifle Beretta") or MAB, for short, was designed by Tullio Marengoni in 1935 and can trace it linage back to the Villar Perosa Machine Gun. The Beretta 38 was introduced in 1938 as the official sub machine gun of the Italian Army. It was a very robust weapon weighing in at 9 pounds 13 oz. fully machined forging and finely finished. The Model 38A was manufactured from 1938 to 1942 when the simplified Beretta Model 38/42 was introduced. The Model 38/42 was made from stampings and a rolled steel receiver to increase war time production. The Model 38/42 was produced from 1942 to 1944. The Beretta Model 38/44 was introduced in 1944 by the German controlled production line to German troops as a substitute standard. That model was in production from 1944 to 1949 and was issued to the Italian Army and Police after the war between 1945 and 1962.
The Beretta Model 38 appears in the following movies, TV shows, and video games:
Beretta Model 38A
Specifications
(1938 - 1950)
- Type: Submachine Gun
- Caliber(s): 9×19mm
- Weight: 9.26 lbs (4.2 kg)
- Length: 37.2 in (94.6 cm)
- Barrel length(s): 12.4 in (31.5 cm)
- Capacity: 10, 20, 30, or 40-Round Detachable Box Magazine
- Fire Modes: ??
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Attention! Bandits! (Achtung! Banditi!) | Giuseppe Taffarel | Commander Vento | 1951 | |
Vittorio Duse | Domenico | |||
Italian cacciatori and partisans | ||||
Everybody Go Home! (Tutti a casa) | Vincenzo Musolino | First fascist | 1960 | |
Mario Frera | Second fascist | |||
Fascists and Italian partisans | ||||
Our Man Flint | James Coburn | Derek Flint | With removed barrel shroud | 1965 |
Fake and real guards in Z.O.W.I.E. building | With removed barrel shroud | |||
Pasha (Le Pacha) | Quinquin's henchmen | 1968 | ||
The Battle of Neretva | Italian troops, Ustasha and partisans | 1969 | ||
The Pacifist (La pacifista) | Italian Carabinieri | 1970 | ||
Borsalino and Co. | Adolfo Lastretti | Luciano | 1974 | |
Siffredi henchmen | ||||
The Last Four Days | Mussolini's guards and Italian partisans | 1974 | ||
The Cassandra Crossing | Soldiers | 1976 | ||
The Gods Must Be Crazy | Terrorist leader Sam Boga | 1980 | ||
The Fall of Italy (Pad Italije) | Daniel Olbrychski | Davorin | 1981 | |
Igor Hajdarhodzic | Lovre | |||
Italian troops, Tito´s partisans | ||||
The Sicilian | An outlaw | Two inverted Beretta M38A visually modified to resemble Villar-Perosa SMG | 1987 | |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Christian Bale | Mandras | 2001 | |
Nicolas Cage | Captain Antonio Corelli | |||
Italian infantry and Carabinieri | ||||
El Alamein - The Line of Fire | Italian soldiers and officers | 2002 | ||
Miracle at St. Anna | Sergio Albelli | Rodolfo | 2008 | |
Italian partisans | ||||
New Kids Turbo | Tim Haars | Gerrie | 2010 |
Video Game
Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Breakthrough | 2002 | ||
Forgotten Hope | 2003 | ||
Forgotten Hope 2 | 2005 | ||
Mafia II | ".38 SMG" | 2010 |
Beretta Model 38/42
Specifications
(1942 - 1945)
- Type: Submachine Gun
- Caliber(s): 9×19mm
- Weight: 7.21 lbs (3.27 kg)
- Length: 31.5 in (80 cm)
- Barrel length(s): 8.39 in (21.3 cm)
- Capacity: 10, 20, 30, or 40-Round Detachable Box Magazine
- Fire Modes: ??
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Consider All Risks (Classe tous risques) | Italian police | 1960 | ||
Code Name: Tiger (Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche) | Roger Rudel | Mr. Benitez | 1964 | |
Benitez´s henchman | ||||
The Majordomo (Le majordome) | Paul Meurisse | Léopold | M38/44 | 1965 |
The Last Adventure | Hans Meyer | The Mercenary | 1967 | |
OSS 117 - Double Agent (Niente rose per OSS 117) | Tuaregs guard | 1968 | ||
Ho! | Stéphane Fey | Schwartz-younger | M38/44 | 1968 |
Pasha (Le Pacha) | Quinquin's henchmen | M38/42 and M38/44 | 1968 | |
The Day of the Owl (Il giorno della civetta) | Italian police | 1968 | ||
The Battle of Neretva | Italian troops, Serbian chetniks and partisans | M38/42 and M38/44 | 1969 | |
The Olsen Gang in a Fix | Bavarian mobster | 1969 | ||
How I Unleashed World War II | Waclaw Kowalski | Sgt. Kiedros | 1970 | |
Marian Kociniak | Pvt Franek Dolas | |||
Italian soldiers | ||||
Execution Squad (La polizia ringrazia) | Carabinieri | 1972 | ||
Gang War in Naples | Police and criminals | M38/42 and M38/44 | 1972 | |
The Violent Professionals | Antonio Casale | Casardi | M38/42 and M38/44 | 1973 |
Luciano Rossi | Cruciani | M38/44 | ||
Carabiniers | M38/42 and M38/44 | |||
Almost Human | Italian Police | 1974 | ||
Rabid Dogs | Police | 1974 | ||
Silent Action | Police and terrorists | 1975 | ||
Violent City (Roma violenta) | Italian Police | 1975 | ||
Libera, My Love (Libera, amore mio ...) | Claudia Cardinale | Libera Valente | handed to the partisans | 1975 |
Italian partisans | ||||
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man | Italian Police | 1976 | ||
Rome Armed to the Teeth | Italian Police | 1976 | ||
The Big Racket | Salvatore Borghese | Sgt. Salvatore Velasci | 1976 | |
Italian Police | ||||
Free Hand for a Tough Cop | Police | M38/44 | 1976 | |
Goodbye and Amen | Italian SWAT | 1978 | ||
Brothers Till We Die | Guards | 1978 | ||
Contraband | Police and criminals | M38/42 | 1980 | |
Fracchia the Human Beast (Fracchia la belva umana) | Carabinieri | 1981 | ||
The Fall of Italy (Pad Italije) | Daniel Olbrychski | Davorin | 1981 | |
Miodrag Krivokapic | Andro | |||
Igor Hajdarhodzic | Lovre | |||
Italian troops, Tito´s partisans | ||||
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Sean Connery | Henry Jones, Sr. | mocked-up as a Villar-Perosa Mod 15 | 1989 |
Television
Title | Actor | Character | Note/Episode | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Legend of the Living Dead (Legenda o živých mrtvých) | Renáta Doleželová | Helena | mocked-up as MP41 | 1971 |
Stanislav Zindulka | Tony Adler | |||
German and ROA soldiers |
Anime
Title | Character | Note | Date |
---|---|---|---|
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino | Franco | 2008 |
Fake Villar-Perosa M1915 SMG
Movie armorers often use Beretta Model 38 variants to mock-up Villar-Perosa M1915 SMG. The most known example is a hand-held variant made by movie armorer Bapty & Co. which was used in several productions.
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Notation | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sicilian, The | An outlaw | fitted with wooden stock for off-hand use; a Bapty & Co. mock-up made of: two visually modified inverted Beretta M38A, Bren front grip and a trigger group from an MG42. | 1987 | |
Batman | Joker's goon | fitted with wooden stock for off-hand use; a Bapty & Co. mock-up made of: two visually modified inverted Beretta M38A, Bren front grip and a trigger group from an MG42. | 1987 | |
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Sean Connery | Prof. Henry Jones | Mounted on the biplane; a mock-up made of two upside-down Beretta Model 38/42 submachine guns. | 1987 |