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T Jones

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Cornel Wilde , "The Big Combo", 1955
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Edward

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A shout out to Annie Hardinge, costumer of Magpie Murders, for hand-bashing the hats.

For me it ruins period films to see modern mass-produced machine-shaped fedoras.

Atticus Pund's hat (left) is really cool and adds much to his character.

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It definitely adds a layer of authenticity. I can suspend disbelief to a great extent, but there's no denying when you see a picture than nails those sorts of details, the whole thing just *looks* immediately right. Wardrobe rather than costume, so to speak. I think it helps a lot too if a particular actor is comfortable in period clothing and wears it like it's just their clothes. Dicaprio is one performer I think really convinces in mid-century set pieces for that reason, he just looks so at home in the wardrobe. It'd be interesting to show a bunch of variations on period-set films to people not into the vintage thing and see whether and what they spotted.
 

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One well known actor from the 1930s and 1940s was John Payne, who was real good in film noir and did several of those films.

These pictures are from the 1949 film noir, "The Crooked Way". John Payne portrays a returning amnesiac WWII Vet who was wounded in battle and released from a military hospital. He went to Los Angeles to retrace his steps to see if he could regain his memory only to find that his real name isn't the decorated war hero, Eddie Rice, but a notorious gangster, Eddie Riccardi, who changed his identity and joined the army to escape gansters who were out for revenge.

Great hats in this one.
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One well known actor from the 1930s and 1940s was John Payne, who was real good in film noir and did several of those films.

These pictures are from the 1949 film noir, "The Crooked Way". John Payne portrays a returning amnesiac WWII Vet who was wounded in battle and released from a military hospital. He went to Los Angeles to retrace his steps to see if he could regain his memory only to find that his real name isn't the decorated war hero, Eddie Rice, but a notorious gangster, Eddie Riccardi, who changed his identity and joined the army to escape gansters who were out for revenge.

Great hats in this one.
Great photos. I saw that years ago—will have to try and find it again. I remember him in a Glenn Miller movie called Sun Valley Serenade—lightweight but enjoyable.
 

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Great photos. I saw that years ago—will have to try and find it again. I remember him in a Glenn Miller movie called Sun Valley Serenade—lightweight but enjoyable.
I saw that one a few times and found it again on ROKU. I first saw John Payne in an old Christmas movie from 1947, "Miracle on 42nd Street", which also starred a young child actress Natalie Wood.
 

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That’s a good one, Terry! Have you ever seen Impact? I watched recently—I’d never hear of before and it’s now one of my favorite noirs.
If you ever get the chance, this one is well worth watching. "Hangmen Also Die", (1943), again with Brian Donleavy. It's directed by Fritz Lang, a classic film noir director. The movie centers around the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a vicious NAZI henchman. I'll just leave that there.
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One well known actor from the 1930s and 1940s was John Payne, who was real good in film noir and did several of those films.

These pictures are from the 1949 film noir, "The Crooked Way". John Payne portrays a returning amnesiac WWII Vet who was wounded in battle and released from a military hospital. He went to Los Angeles to retrace his steps to see if he could regain his memory only to find that his real name isn't the decorated war hero, Eddie Rice, but a notorious gangster, Eddie Riccardi, who changed his identity and joined the army to escape gansters who were out for revenge.

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Oh, interesting - I'll have to track that one down. I've seen that sort of false memory device used in more recent pictures (Total Recall being one in particular). Interesting to see it in a much earlier context - and not (as I think the ones I've seen it in before have been) scifi or horror.
 

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If you ever get the chance, this one is well worth watching. "Hangmen Also Die", (1943), again with Brian Donleavy. It's directed by Fritz Lang, a classic film noir director. The movie centers around the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a vicious NAZI henchman. I'll just leave that there.
Nice—new to me. Thanks!
 

T Jones

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This film noir has a good cast of big stars from the 1940s. "I Walk Alone" (1947), with Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Mike Mazurki, Wendall Corey...

Also to add, a film noir from 1950, "Dark City". It was Charlton Heston's debut movie, with Lizabeth Scott, Harry Morgan, and Mike Mazurki.
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