Mustache or not?


There is a whole story about how the studio wanted him clean shaven. But the director and actors conspired to keep the mustache. They filmed X amount of film, when studio head said shave it and re-shoot, they said it would cost 150,000 or some such amount. So they left the mustache.

So, mustache or no mustache? As a beard wearer I'm prejudiced.

Why settle for the lesser of two evils? Vote Cthulhu!

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The mustache works for me.

"Now what kind of man are YOU dude?"

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I think the mustache looked ok. I think it's funny they blame it for the movie not doing well. Gregory Peck does a great job, though

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The reason the studio wanted Peck sans moustache was because they felt it would lessen his appeal to his female fans who apparently preferred him with no facial hair. However, as Westerns in general did not tend to appeal to female audiences and especially grim ones like this, it probably had little effect on the movies box office.

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I love the mustache. He looks great in it and It makes him seem less like Gregory Peck. Which makes him much more believable as Jimmy Ringo.

Loved this movie. I've never seen it before.

Coffee's for closers.
- the guy from Mitch and Murray (Alec Baldwin)

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"He looks great in it and It makes him seem less like Gregory Peck. Which makes him much more believable as Jimmy Ringo."

I second that.

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He looked like a Mexican.

Although the real Ringo had a massive moustache.

Its that man again!!

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Yes to the moustache, but I would have preferred handlebar.

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The 'stache works for me.

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Though I prefer him without a mustache, he still managed to pull it off quite nicely.

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I like him better clean shaven, too, but the mustache was a very good character and period detail.

This was a very good, tight movie, with a very good script.

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The mustache was part of the period, the setting. See the 1990 "Tombstone" film, and all the mustaches. The filmmakers were trying to create authenticity.

The issue with the mustache, though, is that it was too neat and trim. The real mustaches of that time were bigger and sloppier.

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