I found this by accident. I don't think this has been posted before.

A classic comedy from the Bowery Boy's- Bowery to Bagdad

The only snippet I can find has the pie throw. Not the best, but it's a mainstream scene from an old comedy group.

https://www.facebook.com/BoweryBoys.R.Us/videos/1525579140865373/

1955 - the height of strapless dresses in the 20th century. Nice cleavage for a mainstream pie hit. And the character seems to take it well, without too much anger.

a few screen grabs

Wow, Rick Nielsen has aged well.

The Bowery Boys film was on Rob Blaine and Hurley Cowards lists and discussed many time by the pie mafia......but seeing as we are on the topic of undiscovered vintage messy scenes from old movies here are 2 recent discoveries I downloaded last month that were not on anyone's wam radar because these were rare films not seen for decades.....that have recently been restored and released on official DVDs.

The first one is the 1946 cowboy western in the Red Rider series "Conquest of Cheyenne". I download this on a whim and found that it has a great oil gusher scene at the end with Peggy Stewart. This scene is almost as good as the all time best oil gusher scene from "Joe Dakota".

The second discovery is a new DVD release of the 1941 Judy Canova comedy "Puddin' Head" where Judy falls into a giant pudding bowl.

FYI, for wetlook fans, both of these films also have first class wetlook scenes as well. It is nice to see that many long lost films not seen in decades are now being restored at DVD quality.

MK

I want to put in a plug for WAMTEC here as an invaluable source for those of us, like me, who really like to collect mainstream scenes. I started getting tapes from WAMTEC and Hurley back in the 1990s -- I couldn't believe my luck, all of these great scenes collected on tapes. Yadayadayada, you know the story, "I thought I was the only one who was into this."
Awesome. Now a lot of mainstream stuff is available on Youtube and, of course, the number of producers who specialize in your particular WAM genre has grown exponentially since the 1990s, but I still like to go back to those cliptapes. If you are ever wondering if a particular mainstream scene -- particularly an old or rare one-- has been captured, first stop should be to drop in on WAMTEC.

Feels like she REALLY should have more pudding on her post-falling into giant pudding bowl.

Probably some Hollywood editing chicanery at play here ... as is typical with many Hollywood films of that era. I.E. you never actually see the inside of the pudding bowl to verify whether it was actually filled with pudding or not. All you see is Judy dipping her head into the bowl and then in the next shot she ie is covered in pudding....

...ergo..that means that the pudding bowl prop was probably empty and then some off camera stage hands smeared her with pudding and then it was edited accordingly.

This is why WAM Producers exist today.....to correct all the short cuts and cop outs that Hollywood often deploys. The 30's and 40's serials often excused the leading lady from some action scenes, substituting a male actor in drag when the horse and buggy went over the cliff. During the 1940's they stopped using males to stunt double for females and the female actresses did their own stunts or used a female body double. However, Judy Canova did slapstick stunts in all her films, and she was renowned as a pratfall artist in the same league as Joan Davis, well before Lucille Ball. The attitude in the 1940's was....only the less attractive females could play comedy slapstick roles,,,which is why Joan Davis and Judy Canova were not beauty queens. Note that Lucille Ball was a Goldwyn Girl and beauty queen,,,and she only turned to slapstick in the 1950's when she could no longer play beauty queen roles.

Who is the actress in the Bowery Boys movie?