Not a movie, but one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen… Pipe Night:
Movies with Pipe Smoking Scenes
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wow that's a not a very nice thing to do. I didn't know this but hypodermics where more like pipes back then and came in fashionable styles and everything with accents. Kind of like if someone used one of your pipes as a hammer.The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Murder By Decree both have some rather amusing Holmes smoking his pipe scenes. The latter is quite fun where Holmes uses Watson's hypodermic syringe to unblock his pipe and leaves the bent wreckage on the table for Watson to find!
Lots of 40s and 50s film noir movies feature pipes, of course. The ones that come to mind:
- The Woman in the Window (Edward G. Robinson's friends)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (Dick Powell, with a fantastic pot-shaped pipe)
- Crossfire (Robert Young, the detective, who uses a few different pipes throughout)
- The Woman in the Window (Edward G. Robinson's friends)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (Dick Powell, with a fantastic pot-shaped pipe)
- Crossfire (Robert Young, the detective, who uses a few different pipes throughout)
I also think of Cannon as an aspirational hero type character of sorts. Love watching the episodes on MeTV!!!!!
My favorite episode is when Kremer opens a cigar lounge in his apartment!
A little obscure...but I've been watching a lot of films made in South Africa mostly in the 1960s and 70s lately. They are free on Youtube, and many about historic events. The Shangani Patrol is about the massacre of the British patrol at the Shangani River in what was Rhodesia, by the Matabele--this one was made in Rhodesia. Majuba: Heuwel van Duiwe, set in 1881 in the First Boer War, is about the Boers routing the British. Heuwel van Duiwe means Hill of Doves. Almost always, there are guys smoking pipes, which I suppose is historically accurate as pipe smoking was much more common in those days amongst both the British and the Boers, but then again, the actors most likely were pipe smokers as well. There is an entire lore about Boer War pipes, and they can be found in museums now--the soldiers carved their names and the names of the battles into them. Of course, in Kruger (1956), about Paul Kruger, he is smoking a pipe. That's where we get the Oom Paul pipe-shape name.
There's one scene in The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) where the main character, Andrew Steyn, played by Marius Weyers, is smoking his pipe, and the Bushman thinks he is a god because he has smoke coming out of his mouth.
If there are any typos, forgive me. Everything is a little blurry this morning. This getting older is full of surprises. After going to an eye specialist, I found out I have nuclear cataracts starting. The doctor said lens replacement was too risky right now since the retina is still attached to the vitreous humor as is the case in someone my age and that the probability of detachment during or immediately after surgery would be almost a certainty. Who knew cataracts lead to a big increase in nearsightedness, but they do. Got new glasses two weeks ago, and the damn things are nearly a half-inch thick and still nowhere near 20/20.
There's one scene in The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) where the main character, Andrew Steyn, played by Marius Weyers, is smoking his pipe, and the Bushman thinks he is a god because he has smoke coming out of his mouth.
If there are any typos, forgive me. Everything is a little blurry this morning. This getting older is full of surprises. After going to an eye specialist, I found out I have nuclear cataracts starting. The doctor said lens replacement was too risky right now since the retina is still attached to the vitreous humor as is the case in someone my age and that the probability of detachment during or immediately after surgery would be almost a certainty. Who knew cataracts lead to a big increase in nearsightedness, but they do. Got new glasses two weeks ago, and the damn things are nearly a half-inch thick and still nowhere near 20/20.
I was working to identify, obtain and create identical, period specific pipes together for the upcoming Oppenheimer movie by Christopher Nolan. I can tell you it’s loaded with pipes and for a lot of the characters. I’m excited to see it when it comes out.
Wow, thats very cool - a movie checking to ensure the pipes are accurate and period correct, an impressive attention to detail. I look forward to seeing the movie.
Here's another one: Lord Oom Piet from 1962. Jamie Uys, who was also a director, plays the lead role of Piet Kromhout, a Boer, who unexpectedly finds out he is an English lord. He smokes his pipe in several scenes in the film, but at 21:00 forward in the porch scene, there is some serious retrohaling going on. The film is partly in English and partly in Afrikaans. The political situation in the background is another topic altogether probably best left in the past, but that aside, it is a rather comedic and light-hearted take on the simmering animosity between the English and the Boers.
Lord Oom Piet
Lord Oom Piet
Saw an old and cheesy horror movie called "The Creature with the Atom Brain" last night. Both of the hero characters were puffing as they tried to solve the mystery of re-animated, remote-controlled zombies.
In Winds of War and War and Remembrance both David Dukes and Peter Graves were pipe smokers as was Stalin.
Yup, Stan enjoyed a pipe, or a hand too!Does this count? Stan in Block Heads. In case you're not familiar with L&H and because the image isn't very clear, that's his hand he's smoking.
Dunno if it has been mentioned in the thread, but The Lives of a Bengal Lancer has quite a bit of pipe smoking.
I even started a thread about it a couple years ago..
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
I even started a thread about it a couple years ago..
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
