<P> It was originally planned for the film to end with a scene that depicted everyone in the war room involved in a pie fight . </P> <P> Accounts vary as to why the pie fight was cut . In a 1969 interview, Kubrick said, "I decided it was farce and not consistent with the satiric tone of the rest of the film ." Critic Alexander Walker observed that "the cream pies were flying around so thickly that people lost definition, and you couldn't really say whom you were looking at ." Nile Southern, son of screenwriter Terry Southern, suggested the fight was intended to be less jovial: "Since they were laughing, it was unusable, because instead of having that totally black, which would have been amazing, like, this blizzard, which in a sense is metaphorical for all of the missiles that are coming, as well, you just have these guys having a good old time . So, as Kubrick later said,' it was a disaster of Homeric proportions ."' </P> <P> A first test screening of the film was scheduled for November 22, 1963, the day of the assassination of John F. Kennedy . The film was just weeks from its scheduled premiere, but because of the assassination, the release was delayed until late January 1964, as it was felt that the public was in no mood for such a film any sooner . </P> <P> One line by Slim Pickens, "a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas with all that stuff", was dubbed to change "Dallas" to "Vegas" since Dallas was where Kennedy was killed . The original reference to Dallas survives in the English audio of the French - subtitled version of the film . </P>

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