Review of The Battle of the Century

. . . we had to play with "mud pies." We did not have 3,000 custard pies at our disposal to lob around on city sidewalks, as in THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY. (If we'd have had ONE custard pie, Mom would have stretched it out for at least a week as dessert for all of us.) Legend has it that six or seven years after BATTLE OF THE CENTURY was released, several of its pie fight participants fell on such hard times amid America's Great Depression that they expired due to starvation. The final words of one film pie-died film thespian victim were reported as "This cannot be Real: It's all a hoax. I can still see pie in the sky . . . "