Slapping in movies

Joan Crawford was Equal Opportunity when it came time to slap a bitch silly. Men, Women & Children all felt the sting of La Crawford's diamond-ringed 5 piece across their mugs when they dared to step out of line!

The way Nancy Allen cries after Betty hits are and says "this isn't over, this isn't over by a long shot" was sort of the way I expected Trump to leave the White House. (in tears and threatening a return.)

Shut up Chris.

oh OP, it's so much older than the 70s. You've never seen this classic pre-code clip?

God, the movie Airplane had so many classic bits, including this one that played off your trope OP. I love how the doctor just gets in one more for good measure before leaving.

It continued into the '80s wiht the slap-a-thon Mommie Dearest.

And 1990 when Cher slapped Winona Ryder in Mermaids.

Does Jacqueline Bisset slap Helen Hayes in Airport during the ruse to get the suitcase away from the guy? I can't remember.

and of course Cher slapping Nic Cage in Moonstruck.

Do they slap each other in that fight scene in The Turning Point?

oh yes r5 thanks for that. See it must have been a very common thing if they chose to mock it in Airplane.

In the 40s and 50s it was quite fashionable for a man to tame an uppity woman by giving her a well deserved spanking across her well rounded derriere.

I think Debbie Reynolds slaps another woman in The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Tame that fucking shrew.

Steve McQueen slapped Ali McGraw in some movie. In those days, it was okay to slap a wonan in the face like that.

R8 I definitely remember them in an embrace hold during the fight and they are both simultaneously slapping each other’s backside and then maybe they fall?

Sam slaps Diane on Cheers.

Star Trek classic: Dr. M'Benga to the rescue!

Star Trek was all about slapping.

In the Netflix show “Imposters” there’s a hot slap fight between the two male leads. They also have a sexy wrestle in the first episode.

Jean-Louis Trintignant slaps his secretary Fanny Ardant in Vivement Dimanche!, which she brushes off as if nothing.

Don’t forget this accidental slap that’s all the more brutal because of it in A Star Is Born (JG)

This is getting off-subject. The OP asked about slapping for hysteria.

Men were not allowed to slap women on-screen. The Cagney slap was pre-code and caused a scandal. The hysteria slapping scenes were a way to show how dumb and out-of-control women were, and at the same time a way to be able to depict them getting slapped (the hysteria was the excuse).

Scarlet’s quite slap happy, even more so with Prissy, but after listening to that voice who didn’t want to slap Prissy.

^^Also in old movies you can always tell if someone is a bad-guy by whether he roughs up a woman. After the Baby Boomers took over, it became "cool" to do so (Steve Mc Queen, etc.).

Amateurs above.

Datalounge used to be obsessed with slapping in the early 00s. There was a troll here everyone referred to as Slappy who would ask for people to post about incidents of people getting slapped in real life, and it sort of spread from there. One poster would post stories regularly about witnessing then-regular poster David Ehrenstein being "viciously face-slapped" in upscale Santa Monica restaurants (it was funny every time).

Then there was the notorious news item about cranky cultural critic Stanley Crouch bitch-slapping much detested gay writer Dale Peck in an outdoor cafe in Manhattan over Peck's nasty review of his book, and DL went crazy.

Slaps on tv are even better. The latest was the Thanksgiving episode of the Conners

Natalie Wood isn’t quite hysterical in Rebel, but she’s acting in a way her father doesn’t like a girl too and is bothered enough to hit her.

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Here ya go, boys, Guy Maddin's Sissy-Boy Slap-Party, the extended Director's Cut.

God, Ann Romano was such a bitch. Somebody should have reported her to CPS.

What the Hell did I just watch?

NO ONE could smack a bitch like Crawford!

Hush.

The girls just didn't learn. Every time they tried Crawford the outcome was the same.........

Here's a good slap scene from Sleepaway Camp. "Fuck off!" *slap*

Different Hush (1998) Paltrow nails Lange

wow Paltrow's neck is like 2 feet long in that clip from Hush above.

(what does the Lange loon think of Hush? I have a feeling Jess isn't happy about it.)

The opening scene in The Philadelphia Story where Cary Grant facepalms Katharine Hepburn. I remember when I was a kid, this scene would be played over and over again at the Oscars to celebrate funny classic scenes. After OJ killed his ex-wife, they stopped. He didn't slap her but it was still physically violent.

You buried the lede OP

Jake Gittes and Evelyn Mulwray in Chinatown is THE slapping scene.

I just saw Barbara Stanwyck slap Errol Flynn in Cry Wolf. He suddenly kissed her, she asked him why, which he did to prove she was a tramp. He didn't say those words but that was the implication. Which is why she slapped his face.

Miss Laura Linney delivered two satisfying, rapid-fire, lip-splitting slaps to Jason Bateman in the second episode of [italic]Ozark.[/italic]

I was stunned when Tony Randall slapped a crying Doris Day in "Pillow Talk." Yes, it was a different time, but no one hits Doris Day!

^ But, he ends up with his face smashed in...

I came here to mention the Pillow Talk slap, too, R42. I appreciate it was another generation, but it shocked me the first time I saw it!

You all know the famous story about Robert Mitchum slapping Jean Simmons in Angel Face right?

There is a disturbing slapping scene in Calcutta where Alan Ladd slaps Gail Russell because he believes she is lying, He tells her Do you think you are too beautiful to slap? I don't like Alan Ladd anyway but he is horrible here.

R42 Didn’t one of her husbands beat her unmercilessly?

Funnily enough, I watched HAIL, CAESAR! last night. The movie starts with Josh Brolin (as a studio exec) slapping around an actress caught violating her contract and ends with Josh Brolin slapping around George Clooney.

"Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs."

Noël Coward from Private Lives. In context it's not as bad as it sounds, since the character is obviously not serious. It used bring a huge laugh but it's almost always omitted now because it brings boos.

What about spanking in movies ?

R50, see R10 and click the link.

R51 No video

In The Long Good Friday (1980), London crime boss Bob Hoskins visits a dead underling's widow, she immediately starts screeching at him so he just gives her a slap. But it's more "Shut it, you slag!" than "Get a grip, you're hysterical!"

R5

I was just going to post that - immediately came to mind when I read the OP.

Slapping hysteric patients is standard procedure.

Slapping newborns is standard procedure.