Movies with brim snapping and crown bashing and denting?

• Nov 14, 2008

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suitedcboy

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In the past I have seen parts of movies or TV series where the characters picked up their hats and snapped the brim and shaped the crown. I would to re-watch some of them via Tivo capture or by purchasing DVD's.
Can any of you give titles of movies where this was done in the movie?
Thanks

 

• Nov 14, 2008

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TopGumby

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I know it's not what you're looking for, but my favorite hat scene is from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, when Jimmy Stewart meets Astrid Allwyn and all they show is him fumbling his hat.

 

• Nov 14, 2008

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WildCelt

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In The Big Sleep, Bogie snaps up the brim of his hat and puts on a pair of glasses as a disguise.

 

• Nov 17, 2008

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In the “Captain Midnight” serial three or four thugs parachute in, then pull their hats out of their suites and take time to re-bash and put them on before going after the hero. I guess you have to look your best when getting beat-up by Captain Midnight.

 

• Nov 19, 2008

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I can't remember if they depicted it in the movie or not, but in the novel "Billy Bathgate," it is a character trait of Schultz's that he is constantly taking off his hat and re-shaping the crown with the side of his hand.

 

• Nov 19, 2008

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The Wolf

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I think George Raft does that in Nocturne after he picks up his hat from a table.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

• Nov 19, 2008

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It seems to me that Spencer Tracy is always popping his hat on his head and slipping his finger along the brim to pull it down, and give it a nice tilt, whenever he goes anywhere.

 

• Dec 11, 2008

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Royal Wedding starring Fred Astaire

This must be one of the must-see for all of us. There is more than just crown bashing and crown breaking (if you can stand the sight of such horror).

Real fun to watch.

 

• Dec 11, 2008

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Chinatown

I may be wrong, but I believe there are a couple of moments in Chinatown where Jake Giddis picks up his fedora and has to dust it off or reshape the brim. Certainly westerns capitalize on such moments.

 

• Dec 11, 2008

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FATS88

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I'll have to sleep on that

There are a couple right on tip of my tongue, so to speak,
but I can't recall at the moment.
Hatflick is right though; Jake gittes for sure.
D.C. Barton in the beginning of Alfred Hitchcock's "Number 17"
which is my favorite "hat movie"
Fairbanks in the Men's washroom in "Union Station"
Gable in "It Happened One Night" ?
Denzel Washington as he's leaving the station in "Inside Man"
My recollections may not include both snapping, and bashing
I can sure think of more than a couple of films where the person
should have rebashed the crown, and snapped the brim.


Good hunting, sounds like fun!

Cheers!
Fats

 

• Dec 11, 2008

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The Bishop's Wife was on last night and in one scene where the Bishop gets out of the car after ramming his head on the roof, he rebashes his hat, puts it on and snaps down the brim. This is right before he has to cowtow to get some financing for his new church from the rich widower.

 

• Dec 11, 2008

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This may not be exactly what you want, but "Nancy Drew, Reporter" with Bonita Granville has a scene where she grabs Ted Nickerson's new hat, crumples it up in her hands, basically beats it up, then shakes it out and puts it on his head. lol

 

• Dec 11, 2008

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Hi,

Not a movie, but just today, by coincidence, I was re-reading a The Spirit comics episode ("The Renaissance picture" or something like this), where the hero changes his appearance by means of (among other things) re-creasing his C-crown fedora into a homburg. There is actually a frame of him creating the necessary center dent on the crown by means of pushing in with the side of his hand.

I do not have an scanner, but will try to do something about it.

Regards!