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Post #481049 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Sep 2, 2009 10:35 PM

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On 2009-09-02 21:05, tikipedia wrote:
The 1968 Disney film "Never a Dull Moment" has Dick van Dyke mistaken for a killer, involved in an art theft.
In one scene at the art museum, he hides in a room called "Gallery of Primitive Arts".
Some of the tikis look pretty familiar.

Yep, the one on the right looks like a version of that Marquesan style O.A. Tiki...

...but with an additional paint job!

And that is Henry Silva, one of my favorite Hollywood bad guys, inside member of the Rat Pack. He starred in Johnny Cool,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057200/
for which Sammy Davis crooned the title song, what a great soundtrack. I saw him 10 years ago in a store in Beverly Hills, he still looked the same!