I love old movies (and by "old" I mean 1930s-1950s), and a couple stand out to me for the way they really highlight pipe smoking. Of course, the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes series is an obvious choice. But there are a couple of others I thought folks here might appreciate.
"Crossfire" is a social-commentary crime-drama featuring Robert Young (later Dr. Marcus Welby) as an *avid* pipe-smoking detective. I think he's puffing in every single scene, and he keeps a rack of pipes on his office desk. It's also a very good movie -- a bit noir-ish -- about anti-Semitism in the 1940s.
"The Stranger," a classic thriller featuring Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson as the pipe-smoking spy hunter who is on his trail. (Curious how so many of the pipe smokers on film are detectives/cops.)
I'd love to hear about any others that put pipe smoking front and center (beyond just having pipe-smoking characters).
Bob
"Crossfire" is a social-commentary crime-drama featuring Robert Young (later Dr. Marcus Welby) as an *avid* pipe-smoking detective. I think he's puffing in every single scene, and he keeps a rack of pipes on his office desk. It's also a very good movie -- a bit noir-ish -- about anti-Semitism in the 1940s.
"The Stranger," a classic thriller featuring Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson as the pipe-smoking spy hunter who is on his trail. (Curious how so many of the pipe smokers on film are detectives/cops.)
I'd love to hear about any others that put pipe smoking front and center (beyond just having pipe-smoking characters).
Bob