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DRB

One Too Many
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Just watched Miller's Crossing. It's as if the hats were the star of the show.
Here is Johnny in the woods getting ready to off someone:
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My favorite line:
"Where's Leo?
If I tell you how do I know you won't kill me?
Because if you told me and I killed ya ,
I wouldn't get to kill ya then. Where's Leo?"
 
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monbla256

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My all time hat movie has to be "Public Enemy w/ James Gagney from 1931. Here's a couple of stills from it :
For you Bowler/Derby folks:

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and for the original stingy brim :) :

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Sam Craig

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Cagney had the most intimidating face. There are stills of him that are actually scary, especially when he was young.

What a great, great talent!

He could turn around and just break your heart ... tender, emotional, funny ... all wrapped up in one

And he could wear a hat well, too

Sam
 

MarkD

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I just got home and turned on TCM. They are showing "The Killers" with Edmund O'Brien, Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster. It is a KILLER of a hat movie. There is a scene where they show a birds eye view of the employees of a hat factory going through the gate. Probably 100 hats and you can see all the creases! The rest of the movie has lots of hats and lots of tilts. Awesome hat flick. It was made in 1946.
 

danofarlington

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I just got home and turned on TCM. They are showing "The Killers" with Edmund O'Brien, Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster. It is a KILLER of a hat movie. There is a scene where they show a birds eye view of the employees of a hat factory going through the gate. Probably 100 hats and you can see all the creases! The rest of the movie has lots of hats and lots of tilts. Awesome hat flick. It was made in 1946.

I saw much of that but missed the hats. Will have to catch it again.
 

Steveb1

Familiar Face
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Baltimore Area
I just got home and turned on TCM. They are showing "The Killers" with Edmund O'Brien, Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster. It is a KILLER of a hat movie. There is a scene where they show a birds eye view of the employees of a hat factory going through the gate. Probably 100 hats and you can see all the creases! The rest of the movie has lots of hats and lots of tilts. Awesome hat flick. It was made in 1946.
Yes I saw that last night. Great hat movie.. Great movie.. and Ava Gardner... ouch.
 

Midwest Boater

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Elmer Gantry a movie made in 1960 about a time before that im not sure when with TONS of cool hats fedoras and boaters and my very favorite that i dont know what its official name was but was like a cross between each of them.
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they seem to be rare in my size 7 1/4 or 7 3/8 but i wont give up.
 

DRB

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The Quick and the Dead. Sharon Stone, Leonardo DeCaprio (The Kidd) and Gene Hackman.
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I recognized the bar and a couple of the other buildings and the cemetary the movie was filmed in. They still stand today and are the real McKoy.
 

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