What was the first mainstream hollywood movie to have outtakes at the end?

The first I remember was Jackie Chan’s Rumble in the Bronx. But surely that was not a hollywood movie was it?

I seem to recall that ‘Smokey and the Bandit 2’ had them. That hideous thing with the elephant and Dom Deluise.

I first recall them in “Cannonball Run”. Not making a claim that that was first, though.

My guess is Being There (1979).

I was going to say **Being There ** as well. As I recall, the director Hal Ashby and Peter Sellars were both vocal in their disgust that the studio had done this.

Being There is the first I remember as well, I saw it on HBO. And I remember laughing my butt off, even at age 11 or 12. I watched the movie again on video in the late 80s and the out takes were gone. :frowning:

And who cares if the director and star didn’t like it anyway?

Considering that they’re both dead, probably nobody. But how do you think an author would feel if his/her novel was published and the publisher included extracts from the first draft at the end?

Being There wasn’t the first by a long shot. Hooper (1978) beats it, and so does Smokey And The Bandit (1977). In fact, has there ever been a Hal Needham movie that didn’t have this feature?

Plan 9 From Outer Space? No wait, those were things that should have been outtakes, but they stitched a film together out of them instead…

waits, I wouldn’t worry much about the author either.