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rmbittner

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Dec 12, 2012
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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

 

dlattim

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 27, 2012
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My favorite-For A Few Dollars More (or is it A Fist Full of Dollars). Lee Van Cleef rocks his Meershaum pipe in that Clint Eastwood classic. The whole Good, Bad and Ugly triology directed by Sirgio Leone are wonderful old classics in my book.

 

sal57

Starting to Get Obsessed
Dec 6, 2012
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It will take me a while but Fred McMurry of my three sons yes I know it's tv.

 

eaglerico

Lifer
Jan 8, 2011
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I don't remember what movie it was but I was flipping through the channel's the other day and came on a black and white Dean Martin movie. He was in the military. The scene I watched was in the barracks with other guys in his platoon. What got my attention was a couple of guys smoking pipes, but instead of the way we smoke pipes, they had cigarettes sticking out of the bowl. I thought this strange as I had never seen that before. Once the scene was over I changed the channel.

 

cacooper

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jul 28, 2009
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. My all-time favorite film! Starring Cary Grant, Melvyn Douglas and Myrna Loy.

Classic 1948 comedy. You just have to fire up your pipe while viewing it.
Melvyn Douglas has a pipe going in virtually every scene, from first to last. A running gag throughout the film is Douglas pilfering Grants' tobacco, never smoking his own.
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CACooper

 

philobeddoe

Lifer
Oct 31, 2011
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The River Why. It has pipe smoking, fly fishing and Amber Heard sans clothing. What more could you ask for?
Also, the British tv series My Uncle Silas, very well written, and the main character smokes a pipe.

 

rmbittner

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Dec 12, 2012
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cacooper:
"Mr. Blandings"! Of course! I love that movie too.
My one frustration is that the directors almost never make it easy to see what brand of pipe is being smoked. (Although I'm pretty sure that Cary Grant must be smoking a Dunhill in "Blandings.") Don't they know how important that is? :)
Bob

 

cacooper

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jul 28, 2009
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Bob,
I'm basically obsessed with the Blandings film, so I've done a lot of research. The pipe Grant smokes is most likely not a Dunhill. The dot on the stem is too big and there's a thin metal trim ring between the shank and stem. Dunhill dots are about 1/16" in dia. or so, and I've never seen a Dunhill with a thin metal ring.
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Douglas' pipe, on the other hand, could be a Dunhill. It does have the right size dot. But sadly, we'll never know for sure.
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Same goes for the brand of tobacco Douglas swipes from Grants desk. I've been trying to figure that one out for years.
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CACooper

 

hans

Starting to Get Obsessed
Dec 3, 2012
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While not featured, I noticed that in the War Room of Dr. Strangelove, many of the assembled generals and top men are smoking cigars and at least one or two silently puffing their pipes.

 

mthanded

Can't Leave
Sep 15, 2012
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This is my favorite pipe smoking scene for Christmas time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4qa6Eyfx0mE

 

flyguy

Lifer
Nov 20, 2012
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My favorite Barry Fitzgerald line in the Quiet Man: "No Patty-fingers, if you please!"

 
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