re: Most Blatant product placement in a movie you have seen

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Return Of The Killer Tomatoes did it first in the mid-80s.

They “ran out of money” partway through the film, broke the fourth wall, then started doing blatant product placement to get the film finished, like hocking Heineken.

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Actually the Marx Bros did it in their last film together, Love Happy (1949). The producer ran out of money, so to salvage the film a new climax was written to have Harpo run around a rooftop being chased by gangsters, while various signs in the background advertise products the producer was able to sell space to.

The sequence is actually fairly inventive, and the bit with the Mobil horse is certainly a memorable image.

Love Happy climax