Just got me another SMLE and want to watch it in action!

Breaker Morant....Rule 303

Great movie - but they don't appear to be using SMLEs?

prior Enfield version

The beast? Lol use an enfield to fix an rpg.

Moar?

One of my SMLEs to refresh your minds (Lithgow)

Original 1941 Lee Enfield SMLE by SoloDallas, on Flickr

Or 1944 SMLE (converted in .22LR Trainer)

.22LR 1944 SMLE by SoloDallas, on Flickr

Crocodile Dundee.

SMLE in a sporter stock.

Passchendale or however the heck you spell it.

Great suggestion thanks

Siege at Jadotville. Netflix movie, has sniper and regular Enfields and FAL action also.

The newly-released 1917 has tons and tons of SMLEs on display.

Just watched trailer because of you AND preordered the movie on iTunes

Great movie but those are No 4 Enfields, not SMLE’s.

Legends of the Fall
Galipoli

Indiana Jones Temple of doom    I think. Rope Bridge scene

They're SMLE's regardless of whether they are No1 or No4.

Thanks!  I've been trying to remember the name of that movie for months, so I could watch it again.

I don't know whether these were 'great' movies.  But according to imfdb they all had SMLE's in them.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Short_Magazine_Lee-Enfield#Film_2

No. They are Lee-Enfields, but not SMLEs. The No. 4 is not an SMLE for two distinct reasons.

Firstly, SMLE stands for Short, Magazine Lee-Enfield. It is the shortened version of the Magazine Lee-Enfield or MLE; while most were produced new large numbers of MLEs and earlier Magazine Lee-Metfords (MLM) were converted into SMLEs in two programs that produced the SMLE Mk. II ConD (an MLM or MLE converted to an SMLE Mk. I) and the SMLE Mk. IV ConD (an MLM or MLE converted to an SMLE Mk. III). ConD in this case is shorthand for ConverteD. It is not possible, no matter how hard one tries, to convert an MLM or MLE into a No. 4. They are too different. The No. 4 is an entirely new rifle that shares almost nothing with the SMLE/No. 1. The few things that will interchange require modification.

This picture contains an MLE (1897 Sparkbrook MLE Mk. I) and an SMLE Mk. IV ConD (1909 Enfield conversion from a 1901 Sparkbrook MLE Mk. I*).


Secondly, the term "SMLE" was obsolete and no longer in use by the time Rifle, No. 4 was adopted; the rifles that had been called SMLE in nomenclature were now being referred to as Rifle, No. 1. The nomenclature was changed on 31 May 1926.

So, the Rifle, No. 4 is certainly a Lee-Enfield, but cannot be called an SMLE. That term refers to Rifle No. 1 (and No. 2) and earlier obsolete marks that weren't given the Rifle, No. 1 nomenclature (mostly Mk. Is and the ConD rifles).

That’s sexy, not as hot as my 03A3, but that’s a fine looking rifle. I’ve wanted one for a long time.

Yep. I think I like M1903s as well more BUT I think one also needs to own one of those SMLEs