@PappyJoe Very cool! I always liked flying boats and amphibious aircraft, and I thought the HU-16 was one of the very best. I sure wish I could have flown in one, but that's true for most aircraft! About the "non-essential" weight on Doolittle's B-25s...I always liked the part about no tail guns, but the crews decided to paint 2 black false gun tracks in the rear observation blister then attached 2 black-painted broom handles to simulate a pair of tail guns. Good thing they weren't intercepted by fighters!
In Harm’s Way Kirk’s character Captain Paul Eddington takes off from a land airstrip in what looks like jungle, not a carrier, in a B25 (Navy PBJ). As far as what a cockpit looks like I don’t know. Good movie, I just don’t like Kirk as a rapist. I’m not a fan of Robert Mitchum in a couple films where he is a psycho and scary believable, a sign of a good actor. Like Christopher Walken can be a scary psycho too, disturbing.
Captain AugustusMcCrae (Robert Duvall) from Lonesome Dove. (My favorite Western by the way.) I love that he’s smoking a meerschaum bulldog. That just fits ol’ Gus.
Watched a trailer for an interesting looking upcoming film for Netflix called The Dig. The main character is seen many times with his pipe hanging from his jaw as he works. Looks promising.
Check out an old classic: "On Borrowed Time". Lionel Barrymore is a pipe smoker. Wife gets on him about a couple of times but he remains undaunted. When he dies, in loving memory she winds up burying his pipe with him. Great story too...
Aye Mates, Back in the mid '90s I used t shoot Yankees on weekends as a reenactor of the War Of Northern Aggression, (AKA The CIvil War). Irish Jasper Greens, 1st GA Volunteer Infantry Confederate States Army. A call to arms went out to assemble in Kennesaw GA for the purpose of being extras in the movie "The Class of '61". Once assembled in ranks, we were told that the director did not want to hear about how it "really was", no historical accuracy from the ranks. Half the troops deserted. We were assigned places, reported then spent the day either marching in formation, eating at Hollywood's expense, or watching the "real actors" do their part. We wound up on the cutting room floor but enjoyed a day watching how it done.
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a prolific Belgian author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works. He is best known as the creator of the fictional detective, Inspector Jules Maigret.
I don't know if this counts as "silver screen", but the last 2 weeks on PBS Sunday nights (Masterpiece Theater), the series "All Creatures Great and Small" features the head veterinarian (one of the main characters) smoking his pipe from time to time. If he's not smoking, and wearing his sport coat, you can see his pipe tucked in his outside pocket... Refreshing, simply refreshing.😊
I have a--well--a penchant for the Savinelli "Bing's Favorite" pipe. Have maybe a half-dozen of them. Got to looking at some of the images of Der Bingle holding what I suppose is the model for the Savinelli homage. Overall, close match. Ironically, though, the Savinelli is ever so slightly bowed when compared to the pipes Bing is holding in the images I saw.
Anyone have an idea or thought about why there is that difference? I'm not quibbling, mind you, just sorta wondering...
@abcbill What is commonly called a "Bing's Special" is just a pipe made to look somewhat like a pipe he smoked. Mostly, Bing Crosby smoked a lumberman shaped pipe - which had a long shank and a short stem in his early years. Starting in the mid-1940s, he started smoking a pipe with a shorter shank and a longer stem. These were made by Herbert Merchant, Inc. (Herbert Merchant died in 1944) and later by Holland Penny Limited. Bing Crosby was a big fan of the Merchant Services pipes and favored the short shank/long stem pipes.
What you see many companies and carvers produce today is a pipe designed to pay homage to Bing Crosby and the Merchant Services pipes. They are not exact duplicates as far as I know since they are still being produced by Merchant Services today. https://merchantservicepipes.com/ourstory-2/?v=7516fd43adaa
The 2020 version of this series features a pipe smoking head veterinarian, Siegfried Farnon. He’s the bearded guy on the left (with a pipe in his jacket pocket). Good family friendly series.
There's a pipe or two in the earlier BBC series based on that same series of books. That one was carried on our Maine PBS television stations ages ago. Peter Davidson (later The Fifth Doctor) played the younger brother.
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Very cool! I always liked flying boats and amphibious aircraft, and I thought the HU-16 was one of the very best. I sure wish I could have flown in one, but that's true for most aircraft! About the "non-essential" weight on Doolittle's B-25s...I always liked the part about no tail guns, but the crews decided to paint 2 black false gun tracks in the rear observation blister then attached 2 black-painted broom handles to simulate a pair of tail guns. Good thing they weren't intercepted by fighters!
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There...I found a pretty good image of a PBJ-1. I love the look of this aircraft.
Kirk’s character Captain Paul Eddington takes off from a land airstrip in what looks like jungle, not a carrier, in a B25 (Navy PBJ). As far as what a cockpit looks like I don’t know. Good movie, I just don’t like Kirk as a rapist.
I’m not a fan of Robert Mitchum in a couple films where he is a psycho and scary believable, a sign of a good actor. Like Christopher Walken can be a scary psycho too, disturbing.
Thanks for the correction. Like I said, I haven't watched the movie in a few years and wasn't sure about that detail.
And I agree about Robert Mitchum. I prefer him as a "hero" instead of a psycho.
Yep B25 Mitchell, personally I like the Martin B26 Marauder, It's a "sexy" plane.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZQz0rkNajo&fbclid=IwAR2OlfH2XpKyc0otjMr01hbNbnZ90d2CyFCQhMz23FUUFqiSjVc-Vq2vIR0
About 20 seconds in to the video. 😂
Refreshing, simply refreshing.😊
Anyone have an idea or thought about why there is that difference? I'm not quibbling, mind you, just sorta wondering...
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@PappyJoe or @RockyMountainBriar
Might be able to help...
What is commonly called a "Bing's Special" is just a pipe made to look somewhat like a pipe he smoked. Mostly, Bing Crosby smoked a lumberman shaped pipe - which had a long shank and a short stem in his early years. Starting in the mid-1940s, he started smoking a pipe with a shorter shank and a longer stem. These were made by Herbert Merchant, Inc. (Herbert Merchant died in 1944) and later by Holland Penny Limited. Bing Crosby was a big fan of the Merchant Services pipes and favored the short shank/long stem pipes.
What you see many companies and carvers produce today is a pipe designed to pay homage to Bing Crosby and the Merchant Services pipes. They are not exact duplicates as far as I know since they are still being produced by Merchant Services today. https://merchantservicepipes.com/ourstory-2/?v=7516fd43adaa
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