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I found these pics from a movie called Hanover Street!

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Never heard of it, but it is very, very, VERY cool!!! I really like the WW2 A2 style jackets. I had a LL bean "Flying Tiger" once upon a time, but it had the non accurate split back panel (which is a turn off for me as far as jackets go anyways). One of these days I'm gonna get me an accurate one. Nice find!
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The film was made in 1979 (before Raiders) :shock:

Does this mean that George Lucas saw this film and got the idea of what Indy would look like ?
This film was set in WWII, so the uniform is pretty close to Indy's!

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Planet Hollywood have one of the jackets if not THE jacket from this film on display and it's listed as THE Indy jacket. go figure! :roll: :lol:
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:-k :whip:
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Holt wrote:Planet Hollywood have one of the jackets if not THE jacket from this film on display and it's listed as THE Indy jacket. go figure! :roll: :lol:
It's hanging on a wall in the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood and is indeed listed as a Raiders jacket. :roll:

At least it has a B&N tag inside. I saw it. ;)

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_ wrote:The jacket was made by Wested. Don't overstate the movie's impact - Ford was still second choice, and only then because he was doing carpenter work in the right place and at the right time...

Hanover Street was not memorable. I would not even Red Box it for $0.99... JMO...
This is not about the actual movie, [-X it is only an observation that Harrison Ford had "that look" before Raiders came out!
As for Harrison, I guess being second choice really paid off for him. :-k

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here's a straight on. And apparently, a shaved Abe Lincoln riding his bike right into the shot.
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HARRISON FORD...
No stranger to doing three things in movies (in no particular order):

1. Wearing brown leather jackets with flap pockets

2. Yelling at a bad-guy either directly or over the phone about his wife and/or his family

3. Shooting first at the other guy before they have a chance to
- blast you and report to back to Jabba
- get close enough to you with their sword to slice you straight down the middle
- either ignite their lightsaber or do that weird force-choke-pinch thingy

;)

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Those are Indy's pants, too! Apparently he lost his iron between "Hanover" and "Raiders".
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_ wrote:The jacket was made by Wested. Don't overstate the movie's impact - Ford was still second choice, and only then because he was doing carpenter work in the right place and at the right time...

Hanover Street was not memorable. I would not even Red Box it for $0.99... JMO...
Yeah, I mean wasn't Harrison Ford punished for it on the set of Temple of Doom?

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Makes you wonder if they put pleats in Indy's trousers to take them one step away from the Officer's Pinks he wore in Hanover Street? (Though I thought Indy's pants were supposed to have been pinks, anyway.)
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Arca Perdida wrote:here's a straight on. And apparently, a shaved Abe Lincoln riding his bike right into the shot.
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HAhahahahaha........"A shaved Abe Lincoln!" Funniest line I've read in quite a while. :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: It does look like good old "Honest Abe" too. :lol:
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You know, there's another problem with his getup here. If he were out in public, he should be wearing his Class A uniform. The leather jacket and green shirt were working uniform items, not meant to be worn off base. No wonder he got a beating in ToD! :lol:
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binkmeisterRick wrote:Makes you wonder if they put pleats in Indy's trousers to take them one step away from the Officer's Pinks he wore in Hanover Street? (Though I thought Indy's pants were supposed to have been pinks, anyway.)
I wish they had of been! Pleats kinda kill the "adventurer" motif for me...
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bounos wrote:
_ wrote:The jacket was made by Wested. Don't overstate the movie's impact - Ford was still second choice, and only then because he was doing carpenter work in the right place and at the right time...

Hanover Street was not memorable. I would not even Red Box it for $0.99... JMO...
This is not about the actual movie, [-X it is only an observation that Harrison Ford had "that look" before Raiders came out!
As for Harrison, I guess being second choice really paid off for him. :-k

George
Can't see the connection to Indy here, other than the obvious point that Indy is a generic adventurer uniform that is based on surplus military gear. Ford in this film is dressed in a uniform that happns to feature a not very accurate A2. I remember this film at the time being a piece of second rate flapdoodle.
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I have to agree with you on that! :H:
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Hollowpond wrote:Never heard of it, but it is very, very, VERY cool!!! I really like the WW2 A2 style jackets. I had a LL bean "Flying Tiger" once upon a time, but it had the non accurate split back panel (which is a turn off for me as far as jackets go anyways). One of these days I'm gonna get me an accurate one. Nice find!
It's what got Ford whipped to shreads for making by Barbara Stratton wearing a S&M outfit.


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_ wrote:The jacket was made by Wested. Don't overstate the movie's impact - Ford was still second choice, and only then because he was doing carpenter work in the right place and at the right time...

Hanover Street was not memorable. I would not even Red Box it for $0.99... JMO...

I'm with you there. Hanover Street and The Frisco Kid are a few hours I'll never get back. :-0

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Indiana Jeff wrote:
_ wrote:The jacket was made by Wested. Don't overstate the movie's impact - Ford was still second choice, and only then because he was doing carpenter work in the right place and at the right time...

Hanover Street was not memorable. I would not even Red Box it for $0.99... JMO...

I'm with you there. Hanover Street and The Frisco Kid are a few hours I'll never get back. :-0

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Woah woah woah!!!! I've never seen Hanover St., so I can't speak on that . . . But I LOVE The Frisco Kid. No, it's not first rate, but it's totally watchable and fun. HF is pretty neat in it, and Gene Wilder is so adorable!

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PS sorry to derail the thread . . .
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I thought Harrison was the third choice. :-k Who else am I thinking of??? #-o
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The Frisco Kid? Really? :-0 :-0 :-0 I've seen better performances in high school plays. I almost demanded Netflix give me a refund. I will give you Gene Wilder is adorable, but he's pretty much playing Adorable Gene Wilder.

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You guys crack me up!

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Pitfall Harry wrote:
Arca Perdida wrote:here's a straight on. And apparently, a shaved Abe Lincoln riding his bike right into the shot.
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HAhahahahaha........"A shaved Abe Lincoln!" Funniest line I've read in quite a while. :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: It does look like good old "Honest Abe" too. :lol:
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Arca Perdida wrote:Image
Gives one an idea as to what Colonel Jones might have looked like during his WWII missions with Mac.
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1-Tom Selleck
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Hmmm, found these as well . . . :-k

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Well, since Harrison Form himself is an aviator, it makes sense that he would wear such a jacket in the real world. (Not the acting world. ;) )
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binkmeisterRick wrote:Well, since Harrison Form himself is an aviator, it makes sense that he would wear such a jacket in the real world. (Not the acting world. ;) )
Fly yes, land . . . ? :whip:
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bounos wrote:Hmmm, found these as well . . . :-k

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Well those newer shots are of yet another type of leather flying jacket. Again there's no link to Indy. ;)
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binkmeisterRick wrote:Well, since Harrison Form himself is an aviator, it makes sense that he would wear such a jacket in the real world. (Not the acting world. ;) )
In the article that accompanies the photos, Ford eyerolls when the photographer brings out the jacket. "They always want the leather jacket," he says.
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Luke Warmwater wrote:
binkmeisterRick wrote:Well, since Harrison Form himself is an aviator, it makes sense that he would wear such a jacket in the real world. (Not the acting world. ;) )
In the article that accompanies the photos, Ford eyerolls when the photographer brings out the jacket. "They always want the leather jacket," he says.
"And almost always the coffee mug."

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Luke Warmwater wrote:
binkmeisterRick wrote:Well, since Harrison Form himself is an aviator, it makes sense that he would wear such a jacket in the real world. (Not the acting world. ;) )
In the article that accompanies the photos, Ford eyerolls when the photographer brings out the jacket. "They always want the leather jacket," he says.
I suppose it's the price you pay for being famous because of the leather jacket! :roll:

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Right photographers, next time - make him wear a long sleeve grandad shirt and a black waistcoat!
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Kt Templar wrote:Right photographers, next time - make him wear a long sleeve grandad shirt and a black waistcoat!
:clap: :rolling:
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Indiana Jeff wrote:
_ wrote:The jacket was made by Wested. Don't overstate the movie's impact - Ford was still second choice, and only then because he was doing carpenter work in the right place and at the right time...

Hanover Street was not memorable. I would not even Red Box it for $0.99... JMO...

I'm with you there. Hanover Street and The Frisco Kid are a few hours I'll never get back. :-0

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Perfect placement. :)
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61ButteMT wrote:Perfect placement. :)
No, 24 inches lower would be perfect placement :lol:


That, or Hanover Street :TOH:
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Posters won't do it. Needs to be the orginal master negatives.


And how nervous did people get when you started whipping out your camera in the men's room!


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Indiana Jeff wrote:Posters won't do it. Needs to be the orginal master negatives.


And how nervous did people get when you started whipping out your camera in the men's room!


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Michaelson wrote:
Holt wrote:Planet Hollywood have one of the jackets if not THE jacket from this film on display and it's listed as THE Indy jacket. go figure! :roll: :lol:
It's hanging on a wall in the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood and is indeed listed as a Raiders jacket. :roll:

At least it has a B&N tag inside. I saw it. ;)

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Indiana Jess wrote:
Michaelson wrote:
Holt wrote:Planet Hollywood have one of the jackets if not THE jacket from this film on display and it's listed as THE Indy jacket. go figure! :roll: :lol:
It's hanging on a wall in the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood and is indeed listed as a Raiders jacket. :roll:

At least it has a B&N tag inside. I saw it. ;)

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Barns & Noble? :anxious:
Come to think of it, I DID see a few books laying around at the time. :-k

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Yeah, I saw that too..... ;)
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Sorry for the late..
I like these 'new' pictures from Indiana ;) this is very cool to me. They're look like authentic shots from the era or directly from 'The further adventures of IJ'-comics :TOH:
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Arca Perdida wrote:here's a straight on. And apparently, a shaved Abe Lincoln riding his bike right into the shot.
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Mmm, looks more like Peter Cushing doing his paper round...

or maybe Moff Tarkin on an old fashioned speeder bike.
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What's funny is the movie is listed as PG but when I watched it with my ex conservative gf there was a scene where the love interest takes her clothes off very briefly. She was not happy....lol. I had to pretend to be mad.

I thought the movie wasn't too horrible, and had a goodlaugh that he was wearing a close indy outfit. I kept expecting him to put on a fedora....
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lol, oh I know....I had to act mad though because of my ex gf. Reason why she's an ex, lol!
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What a real A2 should look like:

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I just received this beauty from John at Goodwear Leather. I waited over 14 months, but what an incredible jacket.
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Flyderf wrote:What a real A2 should look like:

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I just received this beauty from John at Goodwear Leather. I waited over 14 months, but what an incredible jacket.
That is one beautiful powerful looking jacket! Enjoy :) ! W>
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