The Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Century is a Laurel & Hardy silent short film released 31 December 1927. 
== Summary ==
His manager enrolls Canvasback Clump in a boxing competition. Despite knocking out his opponent once, Clump is too weak, and loses. His manager then seeks advice from an insurer on how to easily earn a lot of money. If Clump has an injury, their insurance will pay. The manager places a banana peel on a sidewalk, and brings Clump there, but a pastry chef slips on it first, and gets angry. The chef throws a pie in his face, and he responds in kind, and soon the entire city block is involved in an epic pie battle.
== Trivia ==
* An edition of the Guinness book on film history quotes that as many as ten thousand cream pies may have been used in the film's climactic pie fight.
== Cast ==
* Stan Laurel as Canvasback Clump
* Oliver Hardy as Manager
* Noah Young as Thunderclap Callahan
* Eugene Pallette as Insurance agent
* Charlie Hall as Pie delivery man
* Sam Lufkin as Boxing referee
* Gene Morgan as Ring announcer
* Steve Murphy as Callahan's second
* George B. French as Dentist
* Dick Sutherland as Dental patient
* Anita Garvin as Woman who slips on pie
* Dick Gilbert as Sewer worker
* Wilson Benge as Pie victim with top hat
* Jack O'Brien as Shoeshine patron
* Ellinor Vanderveer as Lady in car
* Lyle Tayo - Woman at window
* Dorothy Coburn as Pie victim
* Al Hallett as Pie victim
* Lou Costello as Ringside spectator (extra)
* Jack Hill as Ringside spectator (extra)
* Ham Kinsey as Ringside spectator (extra)
* Ed Brandenburg as Warring pedestrian
* Bob O'Connor as Warring pedestrian
* Jack Adams
* Bert Roach
* Dorothea Wolbert
* Charley Young
 
Category:Films
Category:Laurel & Hardy films
Category:A nice mess