A Fish Called Wanda. Charles Crichton and John Cleese, 1988.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 108 minutes.
Summary: Repeated and thematic killing of animals for comedic effect.
Details:
1) Michail Palin sequentially kills three Yorkshire terriers walked by an old lady. First, a vicious Doberman is turned loose on the woman and her leashed dogs. The Doberman grabs and kills one at 53:30, runs off with it, and we see the dog’s funeral through 54:12.
2) The second Yorkie is run over by Palin’s car, 1:03:34, with a prolonged view of the funny, hilarious, hee-hee flattened dog 1:03:47-1:03:50, then the funeral through 1:04:16.
3) A huge block of granite is dropped on the third Yorkie at 1:20:10. The old woman dies from shock and we see her lying beside the block of stone that now has blood oozing out from under it, through 1:20:10.
4) Kevin Kline eats live fish from an aquarium, 1:24:04-1:26:12.