10 Times Movies Went To Extreme Lengths For Scenes That Didn’t Make The Cut

10. Dr. Stranglove - 2000 Pies Were Destroyed For Nothing

Were it not for the assassination of a certain President of the United States, we would most definitely be living in a world where one of the greatest satires ever forged ended with the mother of all custard pie fights.

However, said taking of JFK's life did come to pass, so a scene that came at a substantial financial cost did not. Or at least, it did not make an appearance in the finished article. This was largely due to a line in the scene involving US general Buck Turgidson screaming out, “our beloved president has been infamously struck down by a pie in the prime of his life! Are we going to let that happen? Massive retaliation!”, hitting a little too close to home.

The sequence itself, involving various world leaders coming to blows with the help of some custard delights, was all completely shot, with a whopping 2,000 Fortnum & Mason pies being dragged onto the sound stage to hurl at the actors' pleasure.

It's estimated that this huge set-piece cost somewhere in the region of $2 million to film as the actual destruction of desserts took between 1-2 weeks to get in the can. Luckily, fans of the feature were treated to images of the infamous pie finale year later. Despite the sheer amount of wasted dough, though, it's hard to argue with the studio's thought process in pressuring for Stanley Kubrick to rid the shots from his picture.