So much smoking!


This is a really enjoyable movie that I have watched many times but I was recently struck by how much cigarette smoking occurs. I realize that movie was made when smoking was more common and fashionable but the amount in this movie is incredible. Virtually every seen has two or more actors smoking, Dallas is even seen chain smoking 3 cigs in one scene. There is much more smoking than even a Bogart picture from the 40's. Were the Hatari producers paid by the cigarette companies to feature smoking?

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LOL! OP is absolutely right!!! I just realise about that!!!

Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.

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When we recently saw this at our house we provided our own MST3K-type commentary.

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At that time, the majority of adults smoked cigarettes. I grew up in the '50s and '60s and all of the adults in my family and extended family smoked. So did all of their friends and coworkers. The only time my parents didn't have a cigarette going was when they were asleep or in the shower. Most of the characters in most of the movies and tv shows we watched smoked. Yet neither I nor my three brothers became smokers.

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