Pipe Sighting at the Movies

[Hillcrest]

The movie The Nephew was released in August of 1998. A young man takes his mother's ashes back to her hometown in Ireland to fulfill a promise he made her and to meet his Uncle. A cute PG-13 movie with great scenery and decent plot and well acted. Stars Pierce Brosnan and Sinead Cusack and the late Donal McCann. The Uncle Tony Egan played by Donal McCann who sadly passed away a year later in 1999 is seen smoking what appears to be a Peterson Pub pipe while talking to his nephew who is clearing rocks in a field. BUT ... The D18 was reintroduced in 2015 and became a regular shape in 2019 !!! This pipe looks like a 2019 Arklow D18. How is that possible when the movie was made prior to 1998 ??? Could it be just a House pipe and I am mistaken ? Or is it a sandblast shape 4 (309) Dutch ??? What do you think ?

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It could also be a Chisul Rustic 02 or more likely the 988-1988 Dublin Millenium Pipe as Donal McCann the actor was from Dublin. ???

 

[Skyfall]

 

[Skyfall]

 

[driftedshank1]

In the propaganda film Mission to Moscow ( 1943) the American ambassador to the USSR gets to meet Stalin.
Stalin smokes a great looking full bent with a very Dunhillesque style. Couldn't see a white dot so I can't verify the brand. Film had excellent production values so maybe, since Uncle Joe favored Dunhills, the pipe the actor smoked was actually a Dunhill.

 

[JoeW]

We went to see the new Frankenstein movie on Wednesday evening. It's very good, even (especially?) for a Netflix production. In at least 2 scenes, pipes are shown, though without smoke (lest anyone be triggered).

 

[Searock Fan]

Baldur von Schirach. Former leader of the Hitler Youth. An interview with David Frost in 1968. From "Dictator: The Hitler Interviews".

 

[pappymac]

A trailer for the new Popeye movie...

 

[Mike N]

Charles Bronson this afternoon in 1972’s The Mechanic. The glare is part of the movie itself, but it looks like a Dublin.

 

[Choatecav]

This may have been noted earlier in the thread, but today I was watching the 2010 version of "True Grit." Matt Damon's character smokes a pipe in a couple of scenes. Looks like a bent meer pipe of some kind. Does anyone know more about it??

 

[Butter Side Down]

I don't know if this is off topic or not. Hard to say.

I just watched the latest BBC reboot of Maigret, based on the great books by Georges Simenon. Aside from Sherlock, Maigret is one of the most well-documented pipe smoking detectives.

I was quite sad that in this version, the pipe was reduced to a mere prop. A familial inheritance occasionally taken out and fondled in times of reflection, but never, ever filled and smoked.

Ah well. I guess thats just the way the world is now.

Anyway, for a pipe smoker, the books have a lot of recognizeable pleasures. And the previous tv adaptation starting Michael Gambon from the early 90s features quite a bit of on screen puffing to appreciate.

 

[Mike N]

The Godfather: Robert Duval as Tom
Hagen meets with the Hollywood producer to try to get Johnny Fontaine the leading role in a movie.

 

[Wapask]

I don't know if this is off topic or not. Hard to say.

I just watched the latest BBC reboot of Maigret, based on the great books by Georges Simenon. Aside from Sherlock, Maigret is one of the most well-documented pipe smoking detectives.

I was quite sad that in this version, the pipe was reduced to a mere prop. A familial inheritance occasionally taken out and fondled in times of reflection, but never, ever filled and smoked.

Ah well. I guess thats just the way the world is now.

Anyway, for a pipe smoker, the books have a lot of recognizeable pleasures. And the previous tv adaptation starting Michael Gambon from the early 90s features quite a bit of on screen puffing to appreciate.

And they gender and race swapped a lot of the supporting characters too so I refuse to watch it and I am a very big Maigret / Simenon fan.

In the four, essentially films that Rowan Atkinson played Maigret he smokes a pipe a lot, a few I can't make out and a few notable Dunhill billiards

 

[rowdyroddypiper]

Charles Bronson this afternoon in 1972’s The Mechanic. The glare is part of the movie itself, but it looks like a Dublin.
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Charles Bronson was born with a pipe clenched in his mouth and a sock full of quarters in his hand.

 

[rowdyroddypiper]

For A Few More Dollars

 

[PaulRVA]

The Godfather: Robert Duval as Tom
Hagen meets with the Hollywood producer to try to get Johnny Fontaine the leading role in a movie.

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That doesn’t end well

 

[Mike N]

That doesn’t end well

No, it does not, at least for