# Describe a movie you saw and liked as a kid but can't remember its title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911 "2014-01-04T23:41:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Dougula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@Dougula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dougula)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/221 "2014-12-28T20:21:23Z")
The Strange Monster Of Strawberry Cove is based on “The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake” by Bertrand Brinley and is featured in his book, The Mad Scientists’ Club. Brinley’s stories detailed the adventures of a group of kids who usually got mixed up in schemes that had them using fairly sophisticated technology and equipment for the time in which the stories were written. I think this may be it . I remember this movie also , more so the Indian calling it a Donkechin ( my rough interpretation ) but it was really called a Donkey Engine that was used by minors ---
**Author:** ![Dougula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@Dougula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dougula)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/222 "2014-12-28T20:22:41Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > I saw a movie in the mid-1970’s. It was shown in my school, but I’ve never seen it anywhere else. It was in color, and the plot was about Loch Ness (or possibly some lake that was just like it but in the U.S.) which was supposed to have a legendary monster in it. A businessman was buying up land around the loch (lake) and to save their homes or preserve the environment or something, a boy and a girl pretended that they’d seen the monster, which got a lot of publicity. (I don’t think they built a fake monster, I’m a big fan of the book **The Mad Scientists’ Clu** b and would have recognized that plot.) Anyway, the businessman was suspicious, and followed the kids (who were in a rowboat) in a rowboat of his own, and somehow found proof that they were lying. (Maybe they did make a fake monster?) He loudly rejoiced that, “There’s no monster in this lake!” (Or something.) Needless to say, the next shot was of a sea monster angrily lifting up its head from the lake floor, surfacing, and scaring the living daylights out of the businessman. He gave up his plan (don’t think he died) and the day was saved. > > Any ideas? The Strange Monster Of Strawberry Cove is based on “The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake” by Bertrand Brinley and is featured in his book, The Mad Scientists’ Club. Brinley’s stories detailed the adventures of a group of kids who usually got mixed up in schemes that had them using fairly sophisticated technology and equipment for the time in which the stories were written. I think this may be it . I remember this movie also , more so the Indian calling it a Donkechin ( my rough interpretation ) but it was really called a Donkey Engine that was used by minors ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/223 "2014-12-29T03:41:36Z")
There’s 2, both seen on TV in the mid-60s, probably made several years earlier. First was a sci-fi movie, astronauts on the moon or a planet, with a monster killing them off. What I remember is being terrified by the shots where all you see is the monster’s feet, big rubbery lizard feet, walking towards the spaceship. I was scared and impressed that I could be so scared by such a simple shot. The second was a World War II movie, in which I really liked one of the secondary characters, who had a mustache. I think he was the squad joker or maybe the anti-authoritarian scoffer. I was devastated when he was killed when he used his helmet on a stick to draw sniper fire, and couldn’t believe they would kill off such a great character. This may be the same film where the American troops, fighting on an island, painted a U.S. flag on a Japanese building so the Japanese bombed their own troops. Both of the movies were pretty corny and trite, but at the time, they made me think a lot about the making of movies even as they moved me deeply. The things you remember! No idea of the titles, cast, or anything else, though. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/224 "2014-12-29T23:01:41Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’m about 99.99% sure this is “[Two on a Guillotine.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059837/?ref_=nv_sr_1)” Connie Stevens, Dean Jones and Cesar Romero. Sure seems possible. I’ll have to watch it and see. Looks like it might be more of a serious horror film than a screwball wise-cracking type of horror film. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/225 "2015-01-01T09:50:50Z")
_When did it come out?_ This was a classic comedy/romance B/W movie from the 30s or 40s. I’m pretty sure it was B/W but I could have been watching it on an old B/W tv. _Who was in it?_ I thought the lead actress was Claudette Colbert but I looked through all her entries on IMDb and nothing seemed to fit. _What plot if any do you remember?_ Man is pursuing a woman who is not interested in him. [not _It Happened One Night_!] The scene I remember is she books a sleeper and leaves town to go on a skiing holiday alone. He diverts her train overnight or maybe just the car she was sleeping in, to someplace warm like Palm Springs or Miami or…? So when she wakes up, she gets off the train in her woolen ski outfit. Everyone on the platform is dressed in summer clothes and is staring at her. She walks through the train station until she can find a public telephone booth to make a call, probably to the man. He is obviously wealthy but she might not know that. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/226 "2015-01-01T12:20:48Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Thanks, but that’s not it. The Quest was made in 1986, and I saw the movie I’m asking about in the mid-70’s. [The Johnstown Monster (1971)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067278/combined) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/227 "2015-01-01T12:34:15Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > There’s 2, both seen on TV in the mid-60s, probably made several years earlier. First was a sci-fi movie, astronauts on the moon or a planet, with a monster killing them off. What I remember is being terrified by the shots where all you see is the monster’s feet, big rubbery lizard feet, walking towards the spaceship. I was scared and impressed that I could be so scared by such a simple shot. Was it [The Angry Red Planet](https://www.google.com.au/search?q=The+Angry+Red+Planet&num=100&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=mD6lVL-bAtHY8gX_qIGACw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1432&bih=855)? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/228 "2015-01-01T17:39:46Z")
I’d like to try one. But I must warn you. This one will be very difficult. When did it come out? Approx 1955-1956 Who was in it? Don’t know What plot if any do you remember? Aliens land on earth in an attempt to take over our planet. What was special to you about it? It was B&W Any other clues you can think of? This was a “B” movie and was shown on the same bill as another B movie, “It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)”. These aliens had rather large handheld ray guns and whenever thy felt threatened by someone, they would shoot at them and they would be reduced to a skeleton. Their handguns had a round bulbous thing on top of the gun which would light up when they shot it. When they shot their guns, they would make a loud weird sound that would last for a few seconds and the bulb would light up. I was very frightened by those weapons. But, I was only 6 years old. The aliens looked just like regular people in their twenties or thirties except for one thing. The women were all very attractive. I remember one scene where they confronted someone who was in a swimming pool and that person said, “I’m going to call the police.” One of the aliens then said, “You will call no one” and turned them into a skeleton. We saw a shot of the skeleton lying at the bottom of the swimming pool. The moral of this movie? If you feel the need to call the police about someone, just call them. Don’t announce that you will be calling them. Just smile and then walk away and go call them. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/229 "2015-01-01T17:46:48Z")
I’d like to say Hello and pay my respects to Burpo. He helped me find the title to "It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955). I was astonished because he found that tiltle in just a few minutes. Well done, Burpo! ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/230 "2015-01-01T17:56:35Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > I’d like to try one. But I must warn you. This one will be very difficult. > > When did it come out? Approx 1955-1956 > Who was in it? Don’t know > What plot if any do you remember? Aliens land on earth in an attempt to take over our planet. > What was special to you about it? It was B&W > > Any other clues you can think of? This was a “B” movie and was shown on the same bill as another B movie, “It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)”. > These aliens had rather large handheld ray guns and whenever thy felt threatened by someone, they would shoot at them and they would be reduced to a skeleton. Their handguns had a round bulbous thing on top of the gun which would light up when they shot it. When they shot their guns, they would make a loud weird sound that would last for a few seconds and the bulb would light up. I was very frightened by those weapons. But, I was only 6 years old. > > The aliens looked just like regular people in their twenties or thirties except for one thing. The women were all very attractive. > > I remember one scene where they confronted someone who was in a swimming pool and that person said, “I’m going to call the police.” One of the aliens then said, “You will call no one” and turned them into a skeleton. We saw a shot of the skeleton lying at the bottom of the swimming pool. > > The moral of this movie? If you feel the need to call the police about someone, just call them. Don’t announce that you will be calling them. Just smile and then walk away and go call them. Can’t remember the title, but I’m sure it was on MST3K. One of the bots said, re the skeleton-making gun, that it was possible to be too thin. ---
**Author:** ![Nefario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/59ef9b/32.png) [@Nefario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefario)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/231 "2015-01-01T18:48:20Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > My mystery movie was a probably-1950s science fiction movie. The only things I can remember was that the action took place on a 50’s style wheel space station, and that the station got over run by a ‘space mold’. I remember a shot of the station model, from an outside perspective, showing the station being over grown by mold, covering the outside … I thought it might be “[Mutiny in Outer Space](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059486/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)” … it seemed like a totally different movie than I remembered. I saw this! Or something very similar. I remember because this was my first drive-in movie - I was a little kid so 1964-66? Anyway I remember space explorers come back from a mission and infect the mother ship. There is one scene in the infirmary where the guy has a black spot on his shoulder or face and every time it’s touched it doubles in size. The resolution was that a 2nd space ship is lauched from earth and the carbon monoxide(?) :rolleyes: from its engine blast is sprayed on the moldy space station which kills the fungus. At age six(?) I knew that was cheesy and violated most principles of physics. But I’d still like to see it again! ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/232 "2015-01-01T19:41:02Z")
A mummy in Crete. No facial features. Saw it in the mid-sixties. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/233 "2015-01-01T20:06:53Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Can’t remember the title, but I’m sure it was on MST3K. One of the bots said, re the skeleton-making gun, that it was possible to be too thin. Thanks very much, Dendarii. Unfortunately, I don’t have any access to MST3K. I’m hoping that will change soon. But I’ll just have to wait and see. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/234 "2015-01-01T20:21:50Z")
> [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > A mummy in Crete. No facial features. Saw it in the mid-sixties. That has to be “[Curse of the Faceless Man.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051507/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)” With Oscar Goldman!! 🆒 [QUOTE=Charlie Wayne] I’d like to say Hello and pay my respects to Burpo. He helped me find the title to "It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955). I was astonished because he found that tiltle in just a few minutes. Well done, Burpo! [/QUOTE] Shucks folks, I’m speechless! (Hey, Charlie, how’s it going?) ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/235 "2015-01-01T20:27:10Z")
> [@Nefario](#): > > I saw this! Or something very similar. I remember because this was my first drive-in movie - I was a little kid so 1964-66? Anyway I remember space explorers come back from a mission and infect the mother ship. There is one scene in the infirmary where the guy has a black spot on his shoulder or face and every time it’s touched it doubles in size. The resolution was that a 2nd space ship is lauched from earth and the carbon monoxide(?) :rolleyes: from its engine blast is sprayed on the moldy space station which kills the fungus. At age six(?) I knew that was cheesy and violated most principles of physics. But I’d still like to see it again! Sounds _kind_ of like The Green Slime, but it’s electricity that kills the slime and the creatures it turns into. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/236 "2015-01-01T20:36:57Z")
> [@toast\_pakora](#): > > _When did it come out?_ > > This was a classic comedy/romance B/W movie from the 30s or 40s. I’m pretty sure it was B/W but I could have been watching it on an old B/W tv. > > _Who was in it?_ > > I thought the lead actress was Claudette Colbert but I looked through all her entries on IMDb and nothing seemed to fit. > > _What plot if any do you remember?_ > > Man is pursuing a woman who is not interested in him. [not _It Happened One Night_!] The scene I remember is she books a sleeper and leaves town to go on a skiing holiday alone. He diverts her train overnight or maybe just the car she was sleeping in, to someplace warm like Palm Springs or Miami or…? So when she wakes up, she gets off the train in her woolen ski outfit. Everyone on the platform is dressed in summer clothes and is staring at her. She walks through the train station until she can find a public telephone booth to make a call, probably to the man. > > He is obviously wealthy but she might not know that. Welllll…in White Christmas, they arrive in Vermont for the holidays, only to discover its unseasonably warm. ---
**Author:** ![Clarisse\_McClellan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Clarisse\_McClellan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clarisse_McClellan)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/237 "2015-01-01T20:47:19Z")
When Did It Come Out: 70’s Who Was In it?: No idea What plot do you remember?: There was something about dowsing, possibly not for water but for some other valuable substance. Two or three people on a journey and a giant bird that kept attacking them. Crappy cinematography/cheap grainy graphics. What was special to you about it?: We were on vacation visiting old friends and my parents forced my brother to take me along to the theater to see a movie with he and his friend that I was really too young for. I felt so grown up and important. One of two movies I ever saw with him. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/238 "2015-01-01T21:11:07Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > I’d like to try one. But I must warn you. This one will be very difficult. > > When did it come out? Approx 1955-1956 > Who was in it? Don’t know > What plot if any do you remember? Aliens land on earth in an attempt to take over our planet. > What was special to you about it? It was B&W > > Any other clues you can think of? This was a “B” movie and was shown on the same bill as another B movie, “It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)”. > These aliens had rather large handheld ray guns and whenever thy felt threatened by someone, they would shoot at them and they would be reduced to a skeleton. Their handguns had a round bulbous thing on top of the gun which would light up when they shot it. When they shot their guns, they would make a loud weird sound that would last for a few seconds and the bulb would light up. I was very frightened by those weapons. But, I was only 6 years old. > > The aliens looked just like regular people in their twenties or thirties except for one thing. The women were all very attractive. > > I remember one scene where they confronted someone who was in a swimming pool and that person said, “I’m going to call the police.” One of the aliens then said, “You will call no one” and turned them into a skeleton. We saw a shot of the skeleton lying at the bottom of the swimming pool. > > The moral of this movie? If you feel the need to call the police about someone, just call them. Don’t announce that you will be calling them. Just smile and then walk away and go call them. _Teenagers From Outer Space_? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7f7NND8sJQ) ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/239 "2015-01-02T00:56:45Z")
Accidental Martyr! You did it! You found it! Thank you ever so much. Can you believe that I’ve been looking for this move for 60 years now? And you found it for me just an hour after I made my post. I don’t know how to thank you. How did you like that dog skeleton? There is a yapping dog who lives down the hall from me. You have no idea how much I would love to have one of those ray guns! Heh! Heh! Just kidding btw. Please don’t send me PMs. Last time I said something bad about dogs, a whole bunch of people send me PMs telling me what a piece of shite I am. For some reason, I have a feeling it would be much worse if I said something bad about cats. Now I just have to find a way to buy this movie. I don’t care how much it costs. It will be like my dream come true to be able to watch it again. If I posted “Thank you” a hundred times, I think the mods here would get seriously pissed. So I won’t do that. But Thank you x 100. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/240 "2015-01-02T01:08:54Z")
Accidental Martyr, Can you tell us how you did that? I mean, how did you find that title? I’d love to know because there are a few others I’d love to find. P.S. Can you believe that IMDB listed the plot of this movie as well as all the “stars”? I can’t imagine any of the actors in this movie ever acting in any more movies - at least not in any more movies that are any good. This movie got a 3.6 rating from IMDB. How’s this for a plot? A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts, who intend to use Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet. The invaders, who arrive in a flying saucer, carry deadly ray guns that turn Earth-people into skeletons. Have you ever heard of David Love or Dawn Bender? They were the two leading “stars” of this movie. Heh. Heh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911.md?page=13)