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[David Richoux]

Drumline?

Just a guess - your description needs a bit more info. European or American film? Long time ago but not an old movie?

[Uncle Buck]

Not in the woods, but at the beginning of A Few Good Men I remember at least several close-ups of a sousaphone player in a Marine band. Playing a four-valve sousaphone, if I'm remembering correctly.

Can't remember if the scenes showed one or several.

[edtheorg]

The opening scene of The Wild Bunch (1969) is very violent and during the shootout the band is caught up in the crossfire. The Sousaphone player is shot in the back and the horn is seen in the background laying in the mud.
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[Brian C]

Was there a scene in American Pie 2 with a small troupe of sousaphones marching through the woods?

[daytontuba]

The movie of the "Music Man" musical shows a bunch of sousaphones near the end for the "76 Trombones" finale. Buddy Hackett was carrying one of them.

[David Richoux]

The movie of the "Music Man" musical shows a bunch of sousaphones near the end for the "76 Trombones" finale. Buddy Hackett was carrying one of them.

Which somehow goes against the main lyric!
"Then, I modestly took my place as the one and only bass and I 'oom-pahed, oom-pahed' up and down the square!" (it would have been a very unbalanced band - with 76 t-bones and just one tuba...)

[Bandmaster]

1952 "Stars and Stripes Forever" with Robert Wagner as John Philip Sousa's sousaphone player! Playing a great big monster raincatcher.







Or more recently in Charlie's Angels with Bill Murray who was coached by none other than Tommy Johnson.