| Zippo lighters are the most well known and | | | | used in films. A Zippo is an important component |
| recognized of movie lighters used as props in movies. | | | | between the actors Richard Widmark and Karl Malden |
| Zippo lighters have been used in more than 1500 | | | | in the movie Sergeant Terror. Gregory Peck was |
| movies, TV shows and plays. They are the part of a | | | | depicted as relying heavily on his Zippo lighter in the |
| dramatic production that never gets old, never gets | | | | Korean War movie Pork Chop Hill. Later John Wayne |
| boring, never misses work because of personal | | | | used the star of movie lighters, a Zippo, in his |
| problems and never makes unreasonable demands. In | | | | Vietnam War movie, The Green Berets. In another |
| the world of movie lighters they are the preeminent | | | | Vietnam War movie, Apocalypse Now, a Zippo was |
| star. | | | | used in the beginning of the movie to engender an |
| The Start of the Zippo Legend | | | | ghostly mood. In the classic TV show I Love Lucy a |
| Zippos were first manufactured in 1933. From the | | | | Zippo lighter was often a featured prop in the show's |
| very beginning they were used in movies. The simple | | | | living room. |
| lines of the Zippo and its distinctive click when the | | | | Zippos as Stars Today |
| top was opened gave just that much more feeling of | | | | Zippos continue to be the stars of lighters in more |
| reality to a film. It would become a trademark of | | | | modern movies. Michael Douglas used a Zippo to |
| certain movie characters or styles in the same way | | | | punctuate a dramatic scene in the movie, Black Rain. |
| as a trench coat. | | | | A Zippo helped Bruce Willis fight the bad guys in two |
| During World War II the Zippo factory channeled all | | | | of his movies, Die Hard and Die Harder. |
| its production toward the use of the lighters by | | | | The dynamic duo of Harrison Ford and Sean Connery |
| military personnel. Zippos were famously used by | | | | used a Zippo lighter to escape death in the film |
| Generals Douglas McArthur and George Patton. Like | | | | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In the movie |
| the generals, the lower ranks used Zippos for a | | | | Lethal Weapon III composer Eric Clapton use the |
| myriad of purposes. This popularity with the WWII | | | | click sound of the Zippo as part of the elements of |
| troops made the Zippo the required prop to provide | | | | the movie score. |
| authenticity of all movie lighters used in films about | | | | It's almost harder to count the films where a Zippo |
| WWII. | | | | hasn't been used than it is to count the times when it |
| Some examples of the use of Zippo lighters are seen | | | | has. Zippos have appeared in Midnight Run with |
| in the film From Here to Eternity when Donna Reed | | | | Robert DeNiro, Bird On A Wire with Mel Gibson and |
| lights Montgomery Clift's cigarette. Also Errol Flynn | | | | Goldie Hawn as well as Jurassic Park, Top Gun and |
| used a Zippo lighter in the movie Operation Burma. | | | | Out of Sight. |
| As Zippos continued to be popular with service | | | | Zippos will certainly continue to get top movie lighter |
| people during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, so did | | | | billing in future films and shows. |
| Zippo continue to be the choice of movie lighters | | | | |