Pipe smokers on the silver screen and page

RockyMountainBriar · July 2021

Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer made a great team. Did you know Bud Spencer was a professional swimmer?

mapletop · July 2021

Irish-born actor Barry Fitzgerald holds his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor while American actor Bing Crosby holds his Oscar for Best Actor both for

9th March 1945: Actors (left to right); Roland Young (1887-1953), June Duprey, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward and Walter Huston (1909- 1985) staring at a damaged ornament during a scene from the film, 'Ten Little Niggers'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Never seen this movie and I imagine given the title it won't get much air play these days, Love Barry Fitzgerald.

Turns out that Agatha Christie wrote the book the movie was based on with the same title in England, For us heathen in the USA the book title was And Then There Were None which I read in school

motie2 · July 2021

Clearly, the figures in the picture, above, are "Indians."

"Ten Little N1gger5" may refer to:

"Ten Little Indians", a modern children's rhyme, a major variant of which is "Ten Little N1gger5"
And Then There Were None, a 1939 novel by Agatha Christie which was originally published as Ten Little N1gger5 and later as Ten Little Indians
And Then There Were None (play), a 1943 play by Agatha Christie adapting her novel, performed in the United Kingdom as Ten Little N1gger5
And Then There Were None (1945 film), released in the UK as Ten Little N1gger5
Desyat Negrityat (Ten Little N1gger5, Russian: Десять негритят), released in 1987

mapletop · July 2021

This copy is / was for sale, $8,500.oo

RockyMountainBriar · July 2021

I’m watching “The Kentuckian” and noticed there are quite a few pipes being smoked.

AnantaAndroscoggin · July 2021

Alien Trespass -- a 2008 film made in the style of the 1950s monster movies, the main character, Professor whazisname who gets possessed by the alien, is rarely seen without his pipe in his mouth while he's still himself.