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Movies that end in Pie Fights

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GrapeApe

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Aug 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/28/98
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I never been an enemy of slapstick in general, but I never thought a pie fight
particularly funny.

So I'm a bit surprised when I actually see a film that has decided THIS is the
ending that must be used.

What films have climaxed in pie fights?

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Bill Brent

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Aug 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/28/98
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Oddly the classic one was in the Laurel and Hardy short
"The Fight od the Century".. odd because the film
no longer exists.

They saved the pie fight scene (just as they saved Lon Chaney's
major scene from the Miricle man) but in both cases... thats all that
was saved.

Howard Brazee

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Aug 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/28/98
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Pie fights aren't usually funny.  The coreography in "The Great Race" finale provides a nice exception.

Dave Ford

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Aug 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/28/98
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GrapeApe wrote in message
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>What films have climaxed in pie fights?

Well, not exactly at the end, but near enough it is Blazing Saddles.
Apparently Kubrick also wanted on for Dr Strangelove, but it never happened.

Dave Ford
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JimNeibr

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Aug 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/29/98
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Dont forget The Battle of the Century, In The Sweet Pie and Pie, Half Wits
Holiday, Pest Man Wins, Scheming Schemers, Pies and Guys, Keystone Hotel, The
Great Race.

Jim


Barton Fink

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Aug 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/29/98
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Dr. Strangelove, original ending

Greywizard

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Aug 30, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/30/98
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Don't forget BUGSY MALONE.

And from what I've heard, THE NUTT HOUSE (co-written by Sam Raimi, who
took a pseudonym) has a very big pie fight at the end.


Opencity

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Aug 30, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/30/98
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>Dont forget The Battle of the Century, In The Sweet Pie and Pie, Half Wits
>Holiday, Pest Man Wins, Scheming Schemers, Pies and Guys, Keystone Hotel, The
>Great Race.

The Great Race does not end in a pie fight. The famous battle comes some time
prior to the film's ending, which involves the blowing up of the Eiffel Tower.

jsch...@my-dejanews.com

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Aug 31, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/31/98
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In article <35e72...@news.thefree.net>,

"Dave Ford" <d.j.for...@softhome.net> wrote:
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> >What films have climaxed in pie fights?
>

Speaking of pie fights--could we lock BeanieKing and Reina616 in a bakery and
let 'em settle this once and for all? I'd pay to see it.

JSC

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Arthur Gamell

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Aug 31, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/31/98
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Another movie that ends with a pie fight is "Stop, Look, and Laugh".
Starring The Three Stooges, Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney, and
Knucklehead Smith.


GrapeApe

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Sep 2, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/2/98
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>Speaking of pie fights--could we lock BeanieKing and Reina616 in a bakery >and
let 'em settle this once and for all? I'd pay to see it.

I'd hate to spoil 'the crying game', but sometimes I think they are the same
person with two accounts.

Lana1970

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Sep 4, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/4/98
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doesnt" Bugsy Malone" end in a massive pie fight?

PJB

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Sep 5, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/5/98
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> Another movie that ends with a pie fight is "Stop, Look, and Laugh".

I think that pie-fight was originally shot in 1946 for the Three Stooges
short "Half-Wits Holiday" and during the filming the brilliant Curly
Howard suffered a stroke making that his last appearance as a Stooge and
didn't get to appear to the final pie throwing scenes.
I have a webpage devoted to the Dr Strangelove piefight for those
interested.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Underground/9798/piefight.htm


pete

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