Best "hat movie" ever?

[funneman]

Hat Flicks

I've watched "The Front Page" about a dozen times. I love those scenes in the Newsroom, all of those great straw and felt hats. Jack Lemmon's boater.

"The Sting" has some great hats. That powder blue fedora Paul Newman wears is to die for.

"Thieves like Us" - Keith Carradine looks like he was born in the early '20s.

"Double Idemnity" - Fred MacMurry has a great looking lid and Edward G. too.

 

[deanglen]

I love this side by side comparison of thin and wide ribbon in a vintage setting. I'd go for the one on the right, to the surprise of no one.

dean

 

[RBH]

THANKS!!!!
I love all the movies from the HAT CHANNEL!

 

[mingoslim]

Some great movies . . .

I think you all have listed some great movies . . .
But one of my favorite hats comes from TV.

Don't laugh . . .
But I love the hat the George Reeves wore in his "Clark Kent" persona in the old Superman show . . .

 

[Mocheman]

I don't think anyone has mentioned "The Natural" starring Redford. I'm watching it now and there are a lot of great hats and clothing.

 

[fatwoul]

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Once Upon a Time in America

Dir. Sergio Leone (1984)</center>

 

[thunderw21]

It was already said but since I watched it this week, "The Sting" is a great hat/suit movie.

 

[Samsa]

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Once Upon a Time in America

Dir. Sergio Leone (1984)</center>

I'll second that. A great hat movie.

 

[fatwoul]

It was already said but since I watched it this week, "The Sting" is a great hat/suit movie.

And I'll second that one.

I was actually watching it on BBC1 a week or so ago, and trying to shape my one and only hat to look a little like Gondorf's. I failed, but as usual I enjoyed the movie.

It's one of those films that just never gets old.

 

[Prairie Shade]

A Vote on the thread with a life of its own!

Check out "HARD TIMES" w/Bronson-Coburn-Strother Martin. Never get tired of watching it. I read thru this and didnt see a vote, if I missed I'm not sorry I guess, just a second vote!!

 

[fatwoul]

The Right Stuff was on ITV4 just now, and that is a good hat movie. Donald Moffat as LBJ, complete with Open Road, and a lot of press guys in all manner of fedoras with all types of bashes.

 

[Barb]

Watched the movie "Brazil" last week

and loved the hats! What was neat was the fact that this was a futuristic sci-fi surrealistic story bonded to classic styles. (truly weird but riveting).

 

[retrofashion]

ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THE MOVIE INDUSTRY IS ALL OF THE MOVIES THAT SHOW HATS ARE EITHER 50 YEARS OLD OR ARE PERIOD PIECES . INDIANA JONES PROBABLY DID MORE FOR THE HAT INDUSTRY THAN ANY OTHER MOVIE IN HISTORY . IT WOULD BE NICE IF THE PRODUCERS TODAY WOULD SHOW SOMEONE HEARING A HAT IN A MOVIE SET IN TODAYS TIMES!!

If I'm not wrong Rocky wore his signature hat in the last movie. Rocky Balboa wasn't a period piece. None of the Rocky films were.

 

[fatwoul]

If I'm not wrong Rocky wore his signature hat in the last movie. Rocky Balboa wasn't a period piece. None of the Rocky films were.

That awful "Psycho" remake also had William H. Macy in a hat.

 

[nulty]

I watched one on TCM a few weeks ago. A ritual I have is to get up very early Saturday mornings ( if I feel like it ) and flip on TCM , there is usually a good old classic . I'm sure this is just a continuation of the sat morning cartoon marathons from childhood.......

Anyway, one called "In Name Only" with Cary Grant and Carole Lombard was one ..two of my favorite actors.....

There weren't alot of hats but the ones that were there were fantastic and I love seeing Cary in a fedora......

 

[Twitch]

Aside from movies History Channel documentaries have provided a stream of hat/clothing illustrations direct from the true era source. The result from these is confirmation that fedoras were worn more without suits that with. And with all sorts of clothing right down to work duds and bib overalls.

 

[RBH]

Not alot of hats, but a very nice thin ribbon worn by Fred MacMurray in 1947's
'The Egg And I'
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[Dominic]

I always like Judge Doom's hat in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". But all kidding aside, "The Godfather" and "Once Upon A Time In America" are very nice references indeed.

 

[jake_fink]

And I'll second that one.

I was actually watching it on BBC1 a week or so ago, and trying to shape my one and only hat to look a little like Gondorf's. I failed, but as usual I enjoyed the movie.

It's one of those films that just never gets old.

Redfords hair is hilarious. It cancels out the hat.

Edit: And I just noticed the Herb Tarlick tie. Yikes.

 

[Tango Yankee]

Aside from movies History Channel documentaries have provided a stream of hat/clothing illustrations direct from the true era source. The result from these is confirmation that fedoras were worn more without suits that with. And with all sorts of clothing right down to work duds and bib overalls.

I saw a Cary Grant movie the other day called "Mr. Blandings Builds a House." My wife had gotten it from Netflix and had me watch it because of the hats. Just about all of the workers on the house from the contractor on down were wearing some type of fedora, many with, as you say, bib overalls.

Cheers,
Tom