# cant remember\[movie title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-remember-movie-title/785677 "2017-05-01T23:58:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bobert101898](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@bobert101898](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobert101898)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-remember-movie-title/785677/1 "2017-05-01T23:58:05Z")
black and white movie early to mid 60’s one scene that stayed in my head was a church or one room school partially filled with children and either the pastor or teacher addressing the children and in response to teacher they all stare out a window and with their minds cause an airplane to crash. what is name of movie ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-remember-movie-title/785677/2 "2017-05-02T00:07:38Z")
Possibly _Village of the Damned_ or its sequel _Children of the Damned_. Wrong forum BTW. I’ll ask for a change. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-remember-movie-title/785677/3 "2017-05-02T00:08:05Z")
It sounds reminiscent of _Village Of The Damned_, from John Wyndham’s _The Midwich Cuckoos_. I don’t recall the children making a plane crash, but they have a “group mind” and do other bad stuff with telepathic and telekinetic powers. There are tense scenes in a classroom, including the final scene. > **[The Midwich Cuckoos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midwich_Cuckoos)** > > The Midwich Cuckoos is a 1957 science fiction novel written by the English author John Wyndham. It tells the tale of an English village in which the women become pregnant by brood parasitic aliens. The book has been praised by many critics, including the dramatist Dan Rebellato, who called it a searching novel of moral ambiguities, and the novelist Margaret Atwood, who called the book Wyndham's chef d'oeuvre. The book has been adapted into several media, such as film (twice as Village of the D... ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-remember-movie-title/785677/4 "2017-05-02T01:26:29Z")
I also was going to suggest _Village of the Damned_. It was definitely b&w. I don’t recall such a scene, but it really spooked me out as a kid so I might not remember it. I never saw the sequel, _Children of the Damned_ so it might be from that.