# Can you identify this film/TV show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film-tv-show/469575 "2008-10-26T00:06:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Buran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Buran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buran)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film-tv-show/469575/1 "2008-10-26T00:06:14Z")
This is very very obscure but its a scene that scared me at the time and I’m wondering if its actually from a movie/TV show or was it something I dreamt… I saw this a long long time ago and all I can recall is the scene where children were playing in the countryside and they get themselves a rear tractor tyre and think it’d be a good idea to get one of them to sit inside it and then push it down a very steep hill. Of course it all goes horribly wrong with the tyre going a lot further and faster than they expect. I saw it when I was very young… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film-tv-show/469575/2 "2008-10-26T00:10:27Z")
“I saw it when I was very young.” It would help us to identify it if we knew how long ago you saw it. Are you now 15? 25? 75? ---
**Author:** ![Buran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Buran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buran)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film-tv-show/469575/3 "2008-10-26T00:15:20Z")
> [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > “I saw it when I was very young.” It would help us to identify it if we knew how long ago you saw it. Are you now 15? 25? 75? Thats a point, I’m 30, I probably say it in the mid-80’s at a guess. I’ll be very surprised and impressed if anybody recognises it but its something that pops up in my mind on occassion. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film-tv-show/469575/4 "2008-10-26T00:45:24Z")
I remember that scene, too! I’m 35 and I was probably fairly young when I saw it. Unfortunately, I can’t remember anything else about the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film-tv-show/469575/5 "2008-10-27T02:51:50Z")
Eh, any chance it was [Forever Young, Forever Free (1976)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074542/) ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film-tv-show/469575/6 "2008-10-27T04:42:20Z")
There’s a similar scene in **To Kill a Mockingbird**. Scout is in the tire. It doesn’t go down a steep hill, but does go faster and further than expected - right into Boo Radley’s front yard (the scariest person they know - at that stage). Because it’s set in small town South, the kids are dressed in dungarees and it seems quite rural. It would have been scary as a kid since Scout’s brother and neighbour were convinced she’d be attacked by Boo. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film-tv-show/469575/7 "2008-10-27T06:12:01Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Eh, any chance it was [Forever Young, Forever Free (1976)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074542/) Can’t speak for the OP, but that is definitely the one I remember. One of the comments in the ratings does mention boys rolling down a hill in tires. And the South African and then New York settings ring a bell. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film-tv-show/469575/8 "2008-10-27T09:35:06Z")
> [@Buran](#): > > I saw this a long long time ago and all I can recall is the scene where children were playing in the countryside and they get themselves a rear tractor tyre and think it’d be a good idea to get one of them to sit inside it and then push it down a very steep hill. Was one kid black and one white? Then it’s _e’Lollipop_, which is the proper title of \* Forever Young, Forever Free\*.