"Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult"

Just another night in Los Angeles with the city burning from riots and the Academy Awards happening at the Shrine Auditorium. Among other adventures, Leslie Nielson and Priscilla Presley head to the Shrine to stop a bombing in Peter Segal's "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult"  (Paramount, 1994). Also starring are George Kennedy and O.J. Simpson as police buddies, Fred Ward as the villain, Kathleen Freeman as Ward's mother and Anna Nicole Smith as a lady with something to hide.

Another shot as the camera pans down the front of the theatre. Leslie and Priscilla can't get in with a police badge. They have to steal some appropriate clothes and invitations.

Anna Nicole wants to take it all off for Leslie. She's a co-conspirator in the bombing. We're off left with the Shrine's counterweight system in the distance. 

 A shot from the top of the balcony. 

Offstage left again with Priscilla looking through the award envelopes for the one with a bomb. Some added rigging that was brought in for the production is behind her.

Looking downstage left with the perforated ventilation grilles above the dimmerboard visible in the background in the center of the image. Backstage wasn't scenic enough. They've placed a number of makeup tables around as well as more rigging gear, such as the unit on the left.

We're behind an added pinrail with the ladies thinking that Leslie is Phil Donohue. 

Leslie and O.J. stage left. 

Kathleen Freeman gets hit with an "Applause" sign falling from the flies as Fred Ward is there with a gun trying to salvage his bombing plan.

In the middle of all this action filmed at the Shrine, we get a few shots up in the air that were done in a sounstage. Here Fred has taken Priscilla up to a catwalk. Neither the rigging nor the ceiling we see are anything like the Shrine's.

Another catwalk shot not done at the Shrine. Yes, behind them that's Leslie, entangled in a rope and twirling around.

A shot off left with men down after a barrage of thrown garbage cans. Here there's none of the fake rigging in the way of our view of the lockrail of the theatre's counterweight system.

Taking a bow for thwarting the bombing and providing the director of the awards telecast with a more interesting presentation than he expected. "Who says I can't do drama?" he asks.

Thanks to John Antonio for spotting the appearance of the theatre in the film and Mike Hume for noting the full extent of the backstage shenanigans. We're at the Shrine for the last 20 minutes of the film.  

See the Shrine Auditorium pages on the Los Angeles Theatres site for the theatre's history and ooodles of photos.

On IMDb: "Naked Gun 33 1/3"