10 Best Unscripted Movie Endings Ever
1. I Can Walk! - Dr Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick's hysterical and timeless Cold War comedy Dr Strangelove was initially supposed to end with all the characters having an epic pie fight, but this was cut because Kubrick thought it wouldn't gel with the rest of the film.
Instead, it ends with a montage of various nuclear explosions across history, played to Vera Lynn's song We'll Meet Again. Before that, though, there's the hilarious moment where Dr Strangelove himself (Peter Sellers) randomly stands up from his wheelchair and yells "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"
Although Sellers, ever the brilliant mind, is said to have improvised many of his lines throughout the movie as various characters, it's the final declaration that most fans remember, thanks in equal measure to its sheer oddness and hilarity.
The story goes that Kubrick allowed Sellers to ad-lib the Nazi doctor's final moments, and according to writer George Case:
"The day we did the sequence that ended with 'Mein Führer, I can walk,' I had six cameras lined up and he came in and no one knew what he was going to do, himself included."
Kubrick loved the line so much that he decided to end the movie with it, and honestly it couldn't have been more perfect.