Panama dress hats in movies

[Matt Deckard]

A Room with a View.
He wears two of these in the movie, both Optimo style with the crown pushed down the same way. One straight white with a cracking crease at the front and the other in this natural color.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
And a good shot of our old buddy Belloq.
I've never been a fan of the ultra curled brim... but it's his own evil twist.

And Sallah

Last Crusade

Marcus Brody

The Last Emperor

Peter O'Toole

 

[Mr E Train]

Atticus Finch's beautiful Panama optimo from To Kill a Mockingbird came immediately to mind.

 

[rlk]

Charlie Chan in Panama

The Ultimate Panama Hat Movie

http://doubleosection.blogspot.com/2008/09/dvd-review-charlie-chan-collection.html

 

[Matt Deckard]

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for a remake with Robert Redford as Charlie Chan.

 

[ScottF]

Robert Duvall's Panama in "The Natural"

 

[B.U.H.]

Seabiscuit had a few nice ones, if I remember correctly.

 

[Lokar]

Not quite films, but here's a few shots from Brett's "The Naval Treaty":

 

[Mario]

These are all from Malaya (1949) with Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy and Sidney Greenstreet.

 

[Richard Warren]

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for a remake with Robert Redford as Charlie Chan.

Makes you think about what wonderful works of art the movies could be if the people who made them lost their sense of self importance and innate conservatism (not in the political sense but in the creative sense).

Redford might make a better Fu Manchu than Chan.

I personally want a straw hat like Barney Fife wore.

 

[Razzman]

Paul Henreid wore a great looking panama as Victor Laszlo in the film Casablanca. There were other great looking hats as well.

 

[norton]

In Some Like it Hot, all the gangsters are wearing Optimo's when they hold their convention in Florida.

I tried to find a photo, but all they all seemed to be of Marilyn Monroe, go figure, and she didn't wear a panama.

 

[danofarlington]

Lawrence of Arabia

Don't forget Arthur Kennedy, the journalist, in Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[NukeMeSlowly]

Raiders of the Lost Ark
And a good shot of our old buddy Belloq.
I've never been a fan of the ultra curled brim... but it's his own evil twist.

Evil, indeed. Check out that wicked taper!

 

[dhermann1]

Me! . . . . almost . . .

I extra-ed in a movie 3 years ago, The Caller, with Frank Langella. It was in a bar called the Lenox Lounge, in Harlem, and I sat there with my old beat up Panama for 4 hours, watching Frank Langella basically do nothing, but brilliantly.
I finally saw the movie last week, and my scene was reshot. So me and my Panama wound up on the cutting room floor. [huh]

 

[Jennifer Lynn]

Edward G Robinson wore a fedora styled panama in Key Largo.

 

[Chasseur]

There is a very well costumed French film about Toulouse Lautrec, simply titled "Lautrec" thats quite hard to find on DVD. In addition to lots can can girls and a lovely Elsa Zyberstein in a corset, more on topic for this thread it has a wonderful selection of panama hats (including a nice straw homburg)and linen suits during the summer scenes:

 

[Chasseur]

Andy Garcia's film "The Lost City" while not a perfect movie is one of the best films for 'tropical dress' clothes I've seen. I couldn't find any good photos of panamas from the film, but its got lots of nice panamas, guyabera shirts, spectators, and the lovely Ines Sastre.

 

[Matt Deckard]

The Untouchables

 

[Dinerman]

The Man who would be King

 

[Marcelo]

David Suchet as Poirot in Greece. By the way, this is my first post, and I hope it's an interesting contribution to this thread.