Barrel chested

DL favorite Clint Walker

"Barrel-chested" used to be a common descriptor for lung cancer.

Palpable Pre-Code sexual heat captured in OPs pic. You know that guy was going to fuck her like a rag doll.

That's Pre-Code lunkhead Nat Pendleton.

Our friendly Wikipedist tells us he won the Silver Medal in Wrestling at the 1920 Olympics.

My favorite types

OP, why do you say it comes from manual labor but not weightlifting?

I'm not countering that, I just want to understand.

If that guy was an Olympic wrestler, he likely lifted weights. But the idea of his being a burly, barrel-chested hunk from a life of manual labor is one I would prefer to believe in/jerk off to.

North Eastern European men often have barrel chests. Even the skinny ones. Dime a dozen in Russia.

The film is Baby Doll. Barbara literally fucks her way to the top, from the elevator operator to the CEO of a company.

Hottest body type by far, imo.

Especially when paired with a hairy chest.

Nat Pendleton was a pretty big character actor in the 1930s. He also memorably played a Ziegfeld strong man (forget the character's name) in MGM's The Great Ziegfeld, 1936. IIRC he was not a lunkhead IRL but went to one of those Ivy League schools.

He is precisely what we on the old DL would have called fit-fat.

The actual Sandor (played by Nat Pendleton in The Great Ziegfeld).

(I meant, Sandow.)

R3, I think it would be the other way around. He might have the moxie, but Stanwyck? Stanwyck was always in charge. Stanwyck? A rag doll? As if!

R8, the film is Baby FACE. And it’s FANTASTIC. In some ways, hilarious. The shots of the building to symbolize her ….movin’ on up. In other ways, beyond powerful.

Now I've got to find BABY FACE!

Really fascinating to ponder what would have happened to Hollywood films had the Hays Code not interfered.

You know Crawford would have showed her muff.

I suppose movies for guys would have become raunchier. I think average women of the time were already at their limit of tolerance for raunch with pre-code movies.

Take a ticket and get in line. #MMIM

Movies were made for the entire audience then, there was no TV so kids, men, women, old people all went. Even movies geared towards women or men had to have some kind of mass appeal, a love story in an action film, for ex.

Bette Davis's pancake titties!🤢

At least we were spared a nude Bob Hope!

R21 What are you talking about?

R20 even pre-code, that was not strictly true. Pre-Code Hollywood produced films within genres that were already strategically designed to appeal to distinct audience segment along gender, class, and lines, even if the marketing language still presented them as broadly for a “general audience.” Warner Bros. and MGM absolutely shaped content and casting based on assumptions about audience taste, whether in gangster films for men, working girl melodramas for women, or Busby Berkeley musicals for date nights. Sometimes double features had a man's film and a woman's film. And theatres screened different film through the week to attract a range of audiences - more people in the seats than one film that might not appeal to all.

errata gender, class, and age lines. Thrillers were for young audiences in particular, for example. :

Fitness Reddit would have a million negative things to say about that guy's body. Standards have certainly changed drastically.

I would consider myself "Barrel Chested" and it's completely genetic. TBH, I *HATE* having a broad and deep chest; it's very hard to find shirts that actually fit.

You have to starve yourself to prevent moobs and a spare tire - that chest requires a wider waist for support and things get squishy.

My dad was barrell-chested. I inherited his veiny arms, but I’m not allowing my waist to exceed 30 inches.

R15, it’s a riot. Stanwyck is absolute perfection. And it’s a riot, too.

Tom Cruise is barrel chested.

[quote]I *HATE* having a broad and deep chest; it's very hard to find shirts that actually fit.

Same. I have a broad chest but it tapers off into a small waist. Finding shirts that fit are a PIA. I have to have my dress shirts tailored.

Nat always had to suck in his fleshy gut, though. All the fit-fat actors had thick bellies until the 1950s.

Make sure you watch the 79-minute version of BABY FACE (the original cut).

Lucy wanted to show that the carpet matched the curtains but Gary talked her out of it.

Baby Face is a great and really enjoyable film. The best part about her sleeping her way to the top is what starts her on that: advice from a kindly old guy (doctor?) in her dismal, poor hometown, where she's used and abused by the men at her father's roadhouse at her father's instigation. Old guy tells her she's got something very valuable that men want and that she should get out of town and use it to get ahead. So she does, and she reaps rich rewards in the big city.

Honestly, I can see why the Hollywood moral police felt the need to institute the Code, but it sure was fun while it lasted.

Thanks, Gary.

That stupid Code never should've happened. As the above poster said, imagine what kind of films would've been made.

I think this speaks for itself.

“Stanwyck was always in charge. Stanwyck? A rag doll? As if!”

I’d snap his dick off in my cunt: snap it right off at the balls.

Reagan had one… I’m too lazy to google and post it.

The old mentor in BABY FACE straight up teaches Lily the basics of Nietzche's philosophy.

The longer cut is also better at establishing Lily and Chico's relationship. Also pretty radical for 1933.

[quote] Lucy wanted to show that the carpet matched the curtains but Gary talked her out of it.

R33 The only way that Lucille’s carpet could match her curtains would be if she spread her legs for Sydney Guilaroff.

R37, that's hot!

Just remember that some people do wear falsies.

Baby Face is streaming free on DailyMotion. It’s a 75-minute version.

You didn't see barrel chests much back then. Maybe on hard laborers with eastern European names (Kowalski?). The average 'muscular' then looked like today's dad bod.

Nat Pendleton played a NYC cop in the Thin Man movies and several others. He's one of those faces I'm always happy to see in an old Warner Brothers film.

For R15, a free copy of Baby Face to stream. It's on YouTube as well, but you'll have to pay for it there.

Wow, this filled up quickly!

R6 I remember seeing a lot of guys built like that when I was a kid, and they were all steelworkers, in the mills and mines, etc. so that imprinted on me, I guess. I'm sure there are other ways to obtain that build too, absolutely.

Definitely want to see BABY FACE now.

I mean, I'd whore myself and turn a trick or two to escape Erie, too.

Nat P. was the hunky, lunkhead ambulance driver in most of the "Dr. Kildare" series with Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore.

More about Nat Pendleton please!

Yes. Chest is broad, rounded out and tilts slightly up. Guys like this can have surprisingly unimpressive pecs when they take their shirt off, but the barrel chest looks good in clothes regardless. Of course barrel chested guys can have great pecs too.

The inverse would be the sunken chest - where guys can be ripped and have nice pecs, but it really doesn't make much of an impact trough a shirt.

“Out-of-shape in-shape guy” from Family Guy:

Huell Howser

My favorite Baby Face scene:

Fat Lech: "Got any experience?"

Stanwyck: "Plenty".

Nat Pendleton had quite the ass, too.

Damn, daddy!

[quote]“Out-of-shape in-shape guy” from Family Guy:

Robert Mitchum owns that.

R48 / R54 - This thread inspired me to watch it today (free on DailyMotion).

Nat P. is in it for only about 20 seconds (in the first five minutes). I really enjoyed the whole film, though.