Meat on the Silver Screen

[Chad]

New Academy Award nominating category: Best movie scene involving meat. Your pick?

[Mister_Cutlets]

Another great question! Egullet rules!

Ok, off the top of my head, the top five movie

scenes involving meat would have to be:

1. Charles Laughton, as Henry VII, waving his

drumstick around in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

2. Bill the Butcher carving the hogs in Gangs of New York (2002)

3. John Wayne's immortal hymn to beef in Howard Hawks'

Red River (1948): "I'll have that brand on enough beef to feed the whole country. Good beef for hungry people. Beef to make 'em strong. Beef to make 'em grow."

4. The Duke facing down Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty

Valence (1962). "It was my steak!"

5. Al Lettieri and Sally Struthers throwing ribs at each other in

Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway (1972)

[Varmint]

Ah, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Weren't those steaks the size of a large computer screen? They were about half an inch thick, but god, they were expansive!!!

[beeblebrox]

Who can forget Rocky?

Edited November 2, 2003 by beeblebrox (log)

[hollywood]

What were Albert Finney and Susannah York (?) eating in that Tom Jones scene?

[foodie52]

Finney and York were eating turkey legs. Sexiest meat scene in the history of cinema, in my opinion!

[elyse]

5.  Al Lettieri and Sally Struthers throwing ribs at each other in

Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway (1972)

My eye caught Sally Struthers only, and I thought you were going to say"from South Park where she's in a Red Cross (?) station in Africa eating boxes of 'veal roll-ups."

My mistake.