For sale - a pair of pants worn by Breaking Bad's Walter White and the oddest film props sold at auction

The iconic white underwear worn by Bryan Cranston’s character Walter White in Breaking Bad is one of several items set to be auctioned off later this month. The online auction will also sell other items of memorabilia, including dresses worn by actress Pamela Anderson and singer Kelly Osbourne during their appearances on the US TV show Dancing With The Stars.

The auction, run by Prop Store Auctions, will run until February 28 2023 with other oddities for sale including the knife used by Sherri Moon Zombie in the 2019 movie 3 From Hell, the shirt worn by Eminem in the climactic rap battle in 8 Mile and the Reeboks worn by Ellen Ripley during her battles again Xenomorphs in Aliens.

The tighty whities worn by Cranton in the first season of the award-winning AMC series became a popular image from the show that is still referenced to this day despite the show having finished in 2013.

According to actor Bryan Cranston, the quintessential choice of costume for the scene was to demonstrate the growth of the Walter White character.

Speaking to IFC in 2021, Cranston revealed “So I started going through the wardrobe and while I was doing that, I realised that when he had Walt in tighty-whities, he did it for a reason. It meant something and I wanted to get to the root of that.”

“I chose tighty-whities on Malcolm because. A grown man in tighty whiteys, wearing them is funny. Hal wore them because he always wore them and it never occurred to him to wear anything else. He’s still a boy. Walter White wore them because he stopped growing,” he added.

A pair of used, unflattering white underwear might not be the most lavish of items to bid on at an auction, but believe it or not, these five items not only managed to sell during their respective auctions but made a decent chunk of money once the auctions finished.

An axe (The Shining)

The very axe used to terrify Shelley Duvall and to create the iconic “here’s Johnny” scene in Stanley Kubrick’s unsettling 1980 movie The Shining sold at auction for over £176,000 at a London auction in 2019.

Despite the frantic swinging from Jack Torrence (played by Jack Nicholson) and its use to chop down a bathroom door, the auction detailed the axe as being in good condition “with a few nicks and scratches present from use on Stanley Kubrick’s notoriously long shooting days”

A dancefloor (Saturday Night Fever)

You too can boogie if you want or jive talk much like John Travolta in his breakout movie role, Saturday Night Fever. The actual dancefloor that Travolta wowed audiences with his seamless disco dancing went to auction in 2017 and, complete with 288 coloured squares and 250 individual light bulbs, sold for just over £1,000,000.

We can’t help but wonder how much the upkeep of the dancefloor would be in hindsight, as 250 light bulbs are quite the cost to keep the dance floor operational.

A mouse trap (The Green Mile)

This innocuous-looking mouse trap, one you could pick up from any hardware store or supermarket, isn’t any old mouse trap. Instead, it’s a prop belonging to Tom Hanks‘ tear-jerker The Green Mile, released in 1999.

The auction listing at Heritage Auction reads “This is one of the only surviving mousetraps made for the film, which was not screen-used because the scene was cut from the schedule before filming.”

“The excised scene had Doug Hutchison’s character “Percy Wetmore” setting out traps in an effort to defeat his mouse nemesis, “Mr. Jingles”. In production made fine condition. Accompanied by an original Warner Bros. Studios Certificate of Authenticity.”

A pair of scissor hands (Edward Scissorhands)

Yes - you too could have wowed neighbours by clipping their hedges and shrubbery or offering haircuts to dogs and nosey neighbours exactly like Johnny Depp did in the Tim Burton film Edward Scissorhands.

The very hands Edward was named after went to auction through Christies in 2001, where it fetched an estimated $28,200 to one lucky bidder - though the inclusion of a complementary pack of bandages in the event of an amorous fan using them had not been disclosed

A droid (Star Wars)

Finally, what Star Wars fan wouldn’t want the famous sidekick of C3PO (or should it be the other way around?) and a companion of Luke Skywalker in their lounge?

The R2D2 on auction, used for the filming of The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, sold in California back in 2017 for $2,760,000 USD (£2.3 million); a bargain considering how integral the droid was during the Star Wars saga.