One of my earliest conversions from way back when. A Resistol Stagecoach in Chestnut. These days, though, if it starts out a Western I try to keep it Western if I have enough hat after reblocking.
Another noir pic with my Stagecoach
A lot of character in that one, Mark. I've got a Dobbs 20 fedora that looks 'lived in' like that. It looks like a working man's hat from back in the day. I didn't change it. I left it as is.
That was a good movie. Classic Noir by Hitchcock. Joseph Cotton was really convincing in that one. I agree about the hats. The '40s, especially in film noir, was the best era for fedoras imo.
Here's one that I watched several times, and well worth watching. "Shadow of a Doubt", (1943), a suspenseful film noir thriller by Alfred Hitchcock. A suave amiable Joseph Cotton, dubbed, the "Merry Widow" killer, is a serial killer who preys on wealthy widows and then murders them for their...
This is from a couple of years ago. A way too small Borsalino that I rebuilt and blocked up to my size. Also a before and after pic. It sports a wide 3 inch snap brim.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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