The Great Movie Pie Fights

 Hello my friends and happy PI day. What better way to celebrate PI day than by looking at some great movie pie fights. 

When many people think of silent movie comedy, pie fights immediately come to mind. However pie fights were actually pretty rare during the silent era. Film historian Brent Walker has stated that if one is to look at the Max Sennett comedies, one can find many more bricks being thrown than pies and this is certinaly true. However there were a few (admittedly very few) pie fights in silent movie comedy and they are quite memorable, perhaps adding to this being considered a staple of silent movies. The two best examples of pie fights in silent films were Charlie Chaplin's Behind the Screen (1916) and Laurel and Hardy's Battle of the Century (1927). 

Pie fights were actually more common during the talkie era and its great practitioners were The Three Stooges.

Perhaps no cartoon director mastered comedic timing better than Friz Freleng as is evidenced by this clip from Slick Hare (1947). 

Blake Edwards' epic movie comedy, The Great Race (1965) boasted of having the biggest pie fight in the history of the movies. 

I have always loved the pie fight in Blazing Saddles (1974).

One of the reasons that Mack Sennett comedies are so associated with pie fights actually may come from a later talkie short film that starred some of the old Keystone actors, Keystone Hotel (1935).

Let us end were it all began. Mr. Flip (1909) is believed to be the first film were someone gets a pie in the face.