The original Treasure Island from 1950 has clay Churchwardens in it.
The original Treasure Island from 1950 has clay Churchwardens in it.
Outstanding movie and way ahead of its time.I watched The Best Years of Our Lives last night, one of my all-time favorite films. Walter Baldwin smokes a straight billiard in most of his scenes as Mr Parrish, the father of returning disabled veteran Homer Parrish.
Outstanding movie and way ahead of its time.
Fun movie, and yes I can see the inspiration (one of many influences, including Charlton Heston's look in Secret of the Incas)I haven't watched it all yet, but in the early scenes of the Leslie Howard 1941 British spy film "Pimpernel" Smith, Howard is seen in silhouette during the credits with a straight pipe in hand. And a few minutes into the film, he is part of a tour group going into Germany (I presume prior to 1939), and he and at least one other tourist are smoking pipes.
The film was apparently an inspiration for Lucas and Spielberg in the creation of Indiana Jones. Howard's character is an archaeologist!
Fun movie, and yes I can see the inspiration (one of many influences, including Charlton Heston's look in Secret of the Incas)
We're much more fastidious now than the old dinosaurs were about it.
This!
Pipe ash on a suit sleeve or lapel wasn't an existential fashion faux pas, just a consequence of life.
I'm smoking Cornell and Diehl Haunted Bookshop as I read this for the first time...Obligatory mention of Parnassus on Wheels and Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley.
Great books centered on a pipe smoking protagonist.