Question:
Has there ever been a movie that involved pinball machines?
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Has there ever been a movie that involved pinball machines?
Seven answers:
2010-03-29 02:54:00 UTC
Tommy



Album by The Who made into a film in 1975
super-food seeker
2010-03-29 03:10:54 UTC
the Wizard, a boy and sis take their little bro to a tourney
2010-03-29 03:10:32 UTC
The Accused (1988) starred Jodie Foster in a (cough) memorable scene where she is gang-raped in a bar, on a pinball machine.
2014-09-15 19:26:30 UTC
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Succulent
2014-04-14 14:47:51 UTC
Tommy would be THE answer
BalboasBomber
2010-03-29 02:55:40 UTC
Rocky III had a pinball machine



Paulie smashed it with a bottle
2010-04-01 10:24:45 UTC
Not specifically movies, but here's a list of many media clips that involved pinball. The DVDs that they are on are available for purchase (see sources, below). I have no relationship with the seller, by the way (though I do subscribe to his magazine, The Pingame Journal).





MEDIA CLIPS DVD--VOLUME ONE:

Naked Gun (0:00:41)

Friends (0:03:12)

Detroit Pistons stadium intro video (0:04:46)

Grand Theft Auto-Vice City (0:05:29)

Love & War (0:09:16)

Principal Financial Group commercial (0:10:20)

Seven Days (0:10:50)

Getting By (0:11:30)

Sharpshooters Pinball Tournament (0:15:08)

Music video cartoon (0:20:33)

On Q (0:22:37) (Stern Pinball factory –1980)

Pinball playing record – news feature (0:25:24)

Collection—Joe Spinelli – news feature (0:26:25)

TV/Movie quick takes (0:29:29)

# Three Stooges

# Anatomy of a Murder

# Perry Mason

# Alfred Hitchcock

# Bugs Bunny baseball

In The Line of Duty: The FBI Murders (0:33:00)

Insight: King of the Penny Arcade (0:34:32)

TV/Movie quick takes (0:37:46)

# W.C. and Me

# W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings

# Apprentiship of Duddy Kravitz

# Hard Times

Rover automobile commercial--BBC (0:38:54)

Andy Richter Controls The Universe (0:39:52)

Michigan pinball tourney--news feature (0:40:38)

Collection--Marc Fellman & Wade Wright--news feature (0:43:08)

Collection--Dave De Safey--news feature (0:44:25)

Collection--HGTV segment (0:46:50)

Northern Exposure (0:47:54)

Star Trek--original series (0:48:48)

Star Trek: Voyager (0:50:02)

Chips Ahoy commercial (0:51:39)

Collection – Ken Shaffer – HGTV (0:52:09)

Tales From The Crypt (0:54:00)

Playboy Mansion tour – A&E (0:56:04)

The Popular Mechanics Show (0:57:30) (Steve Kordek, Roger Sharpe, Michael Gottlieb, Steve Ritchie—No Fear)

PAPA II news feature segments (1:05:06) (Featuring champ, Rick Stetta, Steve Epstein, Roger Sharpe, Lyman Sheats)

Omni: The New Frontier – Suzanne Ciani, voice of Xenon (1:19:02)

The China Syndrome (1:27:18)

The Magnificent Marble Machine (1:28:27)

Risco (1:33:55) (German quiz show—subjects based on contestant’s interests—this segment features

Austrian pin enthusiast, Jost Berger)

Then & Now (late 70s) (1:44:24)

Music video “Pinball Cha Cha” by Yello (1:47:43)

Collection – Jim Schelberg – news feature (1:51:17)



MEDIA CLIPS DVD--VOLUME TWO:

Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ channel 7 station ID

Happy Days collection (0:00:49)

CNN—Science & Technology Today (0:13:34) (Pinball Expo 1990, Roger Sharpe, Steve Kordek, Williams factory)

Arcade Attack – BBC 1982 (0:16:24)

Eureka! – BBC "how-it-was-made" show, pinball segment (0:37:26) (show regulars featured as Harry Williams, Ray Moloney, and David Gottlieb)

Entertainment Tonight – 3/1991 (0:45:25) (Elvira, Roger Sharpe, Steve Engel, George Pins collection, Sara Jessica Parker)

Good Morning America – Elvira (0:49:41)

ABC News report – 1990 – (0:49:58) (Roger Sharpe, Broadway Arcade—Steve Epstein, Williams factory)

Pinball Wizards Convention (0:52:29)

Tommy on Broadway segments (0:54:08)

Clarinex commercial (1:01:35)

Special Edition (1:02:05)

Twilight Zone – 2003 (1:05:30)

The Simpsons (1:06:20)

60 Minutes (1:06:45)

Robert Capa biography (1:18:33)

Danger Man (1:20:02) (released in the US as Secret Agent)

Danger Mouse (1:22:23)

Weird Homes (1:23:57)

Trading Spaces (1:25:42)

Invention – Smithsonian 1995 (1:27:16) (Steve Kordek, Michael Gottlieb, Tim Arnold—collection, Williams factory and design areas, Steve Ritchie, Lyman “Lamone” Sheats)

WB Cartoon Show promo (1:33:16)

Chicago Tonight 5/03 (1:33:38) (Gary Stern and the Stern Pinball factory, Steve Kordek)

Everwood (1:42:22)

Coke commercial (1:44:01)

The George Carlin Show (1:44:31)


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