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Ive always liked the way Spencer Tracy wore this fedora in Bad Day at Black Rock:
Ive always liked the way Spencer Tracy wore this fedora in Bad Day at Black Rock:
Ooooh, that's a good one!
I liked Spencer Tracy in the hat. But I could just never buy an overage, overweight one-armed man beating up all the roughnecks in that town. It was just preposterous, so I am blocked from really liking that movie.
Ive always liked the way Spencer Tracy wore this fedora in Bad Day at Black Rock:
Well I meant the hat. I've never seen the movie, but if it's anything like you describe, I don't think I could watch it.
Well I meant the hat. I've never seen the movie, but if it's anything like you describe, I don't think I could watch it.
What about Robert Ryan from 'Bad Day..."
Yes, him, too, but I like a very specific style of hat, and Tracy's fits into that mold.
How bout La Bamba from Conan?
Another hat I like is Peter Lorre's lid from M (Fritz Lang, 1931).
Attention to detail! The next shot is just a few seconds after the first. Note the different crease in the hat: The reverse taper from the first image is now gone. The back has been raised cosiderably while the front pinch now has a very pronounced kink to it...
I've also always liked that white William Powell Thin Man hat. I hope to get one like it some day. The contrast with a dark suit is very good. I like it more because I see few like it.
I'd be willing to bet that his hat was NOT a white one. Probably more of a light grey, as if you look at his white shirt, the hat would have similar hues & brightness of "color" in B&W film. Been shooting B&W film for over 40 years now and White does not photograph like that.
Onward thru the Fog
BTW, in the movie "Bad Day at Black Rock," Lee Marvin wears an Open Road-like hat with the Ft. Worth crease that has been discussed elsewhere, otherwise known as the foreman's crease.
...TCM
I have missed those Ft. Worth/Foreman crease reference threads. Could you point to them?
BTW, I do like Conan's hat, too. Surely because its proportions look classic, and not modern.