# Movies with gongs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782 "2020-04-01T02:53:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/1 "2020-04-01T02:53:15Z")
For reasons too mundane to go into, I am in need of movie clips of gongs being rung. The Rank Organization had an intro at the beginning of their movies of a strongman striking a large gong. And (likely an homage) there’s a gong rung at the beginning of _Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom_. After that, I can’t really think of any, but I know there must be more. Movies, cartoons, TV shows (if I must), all are fair game. C’mon, Teeming Millions, help me out here. Bonus points if it’s available on youtube. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/2 "2020-04-01T02:57:02Z")
[Big Trouble in Little China](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A65Jq6NKdeI) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/3 "2020-04-01T05:16:54Z")
Help! King Kong ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/4 "2020-04-01T05:27:55Z")
[The Pink Panther in "Gong with the Pink" - YouTube](https://youtu.be/iYl8mN4n6U0) : The Pink Panther in “Gong with the Pink” ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/5 "2020-04-01T05:31:11Z")
I think you need Long Duck Dong. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZTchUep_bmg/hqdefault.jpg "Film Clip -- Sixteen Candles Movie Long Duk Dong What's Happening Hotstuff") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTchUep_bmg) Sixteen Candles is the film. ‘What’s happening, hot stuff?’ ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/6 "2020-04-01T06:52:08Z")
[Revenge of the Pink Panther](https://youtu.be/oc8bWybEFFI) ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/7 "2020-04-01T09:52:13Z")
Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii - “played” by Roger Waters. I think there’s a rather modest gong used to open the tournament in _Enter the Dragon_. In Zep’s The Song Remains the Same - John Bonham whacks a _flaming_ gong to finish off one of the songs, I don’t remember which, and chose not to revisit to find out. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/8 "2020-04-01T10:03:19Z")
In the episode of _ **Gilligan’s Island** _ where they make a silent movie, the film starts with Gilligan striking a gong marked “Castaway Pictures Presents.” > **[Castaways Pictures Presents](https://gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/Castaways_Pictures_Presents)** > > Castaway Pictures Presents is the seventh episode of the second season of "Gilligan's Island." It first aired November 4, 1965. While floating on a raft on the lagoon, Gilligan comes rushing back to shore calling that he's seen a ship. Unfortunately,... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/9 "2020-04-01T10:15:32Z")
The Rank Organization had an intro at the beginning of their movies of a strongman almost striking a large piece of papier-mâché with someone else striking a much smaller [tam tam](https://www.pmgongs.com/gong-or-tam-tam.htm). (I’m assuming you want only images of the giant-ass gongs and not the many much smaller varieties, though.) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/10 "2020-04-01T10:18:06Z")
Clue. It’s rung for dinnertime. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/11 "2020-04-01T10:45:33Z")
Wasn’t there once a studio, possibly English, that used a Gong being struck, just as MGM used a lion roaring? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/12 "2020-04-01T10:55:36Z")
Venus Flytrap used a gong in WKRP (TV) as a gimmick in his late-night DJ show, I think in the first episode of his appearance, where he hits it just a tad too hard. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/13 "2020-04-01T12:24:11Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Wasn’t there once a studio, possibly English, that used a Gong being struck, just as MGM used a lion roaring? The Rank Organization, as noted above. The scene in _ **Gilligan’s Island** _ parodied it. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/14 "2020-04-01T12:35:37Z")
[_The President’s Analyst_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/) from 1967 is great. James Coburn plays the title character and is into gongs. Throw in Godfrey Cambridge and you’ve got yourself a movie. But wait, there’s more: also has Pat Harrington, Joan Darling (director of _First Love_), Arte Johnson and B-movie queen Kathleen Hughes. The studio with the gonger in the production opener was Rank. The guy was Ken Richmond who [died](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/movies/13richmond.html) several years ago. (Ninjaed!) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/15 "2020-04-01T12:45:56Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > [_The President’s Analyst_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/) from 1967 is great. James Coburn plays the title character and is into gongs. IIRC, Coburn’s character also had a gong in his apartment in _ **Our Man Flint** _ and _ **In Like Flint** _. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/16 "2020-04-01T12:53:23Z")
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/17 "2020-04-01T13:41:38Z")
> [@rsat3acr](#): > > Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom As mentioned in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/18 "2020-04-01T14:40:43Z")
_[Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_Warriors_III:_Canterbury_Tales)_ contains a performance by [Gong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_(band)) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/19 "2020-04-01T14:57:38Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > (I’m assuming you want only images of the giant-ass gongs and not the many much smaller varieties, though.) Smaller gongs are acceptable, and in an odd way, preferred. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782/20 "2020-04-01T15:31:34Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > IIRC, Coburn’s character also had a gong in his apartment in _ **Our Man Flint** _ and _ **In Like Flint** _. Wow. Great memory. I love those movies and don’t remember these. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-gongs/850782.md?page=2)