Even although it’s now 35 years outdated, John Hughes‘ 1987 film “Planes, Trains, And Automobiles” remains a classic comedy and maybe the best Thanksgiving movie ever made. It may even be Hughes’ most beloved movie, too: a controversial decide, however actually within the operating. Now, within the lead-up to Turkey Day, Vanity Fair needs followers of the movie to take a look at a long-lost deleted scene from the movie that sees John Candy and Steve Martin on the top of their odd-couple chemistry.
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For these unfamiliar with “Automobiles,” perhaps take a look at the movie earlier than watching the clip. But for individuals who want solely a plot recap of the film, right here goes: Martin performs Neal Page, an uptight promoting exec who simply can’t appear to make it house in time for Thanksgiving. Worse but, he retains operating into Candy’s Del Griffith, a shower-curtain ring salesman who can’t appear to cease speaking, speaking, speaking. Their respective journeys out of New York City for the vacation quickly take a parallel course, forcing the 2 strangers to continually butt heads, and forge an unlikely bond within the course of.
In the newly uncovered deleted scene, Neal and Del share a seat on a bus, and Del decides it’s a good suggestion to start out singing “99 Bottles Of Beer.” The tune begins carrying skinny for Neal, however Del, ever undeterred, takes issues up a notch, restarting the music at “1000 bottles.” While solely a minute lengthy, the deleted scene is however one among many shaved off from the movie’s preliminary super-long 4-hour reduce. But in an period the place studios by no means saved scenes left on the chopping room ground, Hughes stored duplicate copies of his movies as he edited them. This scene is one among an hour’s price of deleted scenes included on the brand new 4K launch of “Planes, Trains, And Automobiles.”
For extra data about Hughes’ film and its manufacturing, take a look at Vanity Fair’s oral historical past of the movie. Check out the deleted scene from “Planes, Trains, And Automobiles” under.