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Winchester made Movies?
« on: May 03, 2008, 01:39:03 PM »
Winchester Pictures Corporation... production co. for "The Thing from Another World" as is currently on TCM this moment.
AFAIK, it's the same Winchester as makes the rifles - showed crossed lever-actions as their logo.
Interesting.


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Re: Winchester made Movies?
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2008, 09:12:26 PM »
Looks like they only did two movies -- Thing From Another World and The Big Sky, which is actually a damned good movie.

From what I can tell from a web search, Howard Hawks, the director and producer, formed the company. Here's the thing, though. His middle name was Winchester... It was a common middle name in his family.

So, I'm not so sure that Winchester the firearms company was involved...
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