# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/322 "2015-04-10T16:52:06Z")
> [@Katoliver](#): > > It was an episode of the original (1963) TV series “The Outer Limits”: “Specimen: Unknown” starring Richard Jaeckel, Stephen McNally, Gail Kobe, and Dabney Coleman. Thanks. That seems right, I seem to remember Richard Jaeckel, too. I can’t check the video until later, if I can find it on line, maybe Amazon instant watch. Good thing I keep checking the thread. ---
**Author:** ![PeteShepherd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e480ec/32.png) [@PeteShepherd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeteShepherd)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/323 "2015-04-10T19:58:55Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > This is probably [The Landlord](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065963/?ref_=nv_sr_1) starring Beau Bridges, although you have some details wrong, e.g. the young man (Bridges) buys the building on his own, nothing to do with a kingdom of tenements. Yes, I’m sure that’s it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/324 "2015-04-13T21:49:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Here’s one: I’m pretty sure I saw it on TV the summer I spent in Colorado with my dad, which would have been 1967. Don’t know if it was in color or not, and I think it was European, which means it would have been dubbed into English. It was about the antics a unit of peacetime soldiers in what looked like WWII British uniforms, but I’m pretty sure they were Swedish (maybe part of a UN contingent). > > The one scene I remember well was when they were at a mountain lake and saw a hot babe in a bathing suit standing at the end of a pier. One of the soldiers gives a whoop and takes off after her, clomping down the pier in his combat boots, and grabs her to give her a kiss. He spins her around, and her face is butt-ugly, so he falls backward off the pier in shock. > > Ring any bells? :dubious: Carry on Sergeant? > **[Carry On Sergeant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_Sergeant)** > > Carry On Sergeant is a 1958 British comedy film about national service starring William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse and Eric Barker; it is the first in the series of Carry On films, with 31 entries released from 1958 to 1992. The film was based on a play The Bull Boys by R. F. Delderfield and was adapted into a script by Norman Hudis with John Antrobus contributing additional material and replacing the conscripted ballet dancers of the novel with a married couple. It was directed by Gerald Thomas ... I’ve never seen it, but it sounds like a Carry On film ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/325 "2015-04-14T00:16:33Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I would like help recognize a young actress and the movie. > > The period was mid-century or earlier. I have a sense of Southern or rural locale. > > She was young, earlier teens. Light hair, in two braids, with straight bangs (fringe). Rather thin, very pale. > > She wore a light knee length skirt and blouse that buttoned up the front. > > She had a slightly odd smile and general sense of being awkward and endearing, but not in a hopeful, positive sense. > > Is this ringing any bells for anyone? [Patty McCormak?](http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/Patty2.JPG) Maybe you’re thinking of her in the [Bad SEed](https://www.google.com/search?q=bad+seed+mccormack&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=IFwsVdCWAsLQsAWuhYDwDw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1388&bih=692#imgrc=v8uidxS9PuI24M%253A%3Btio0dNTvG-lMWM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fsunsetgun.typepad.com%252F.a%252F6a00d83451cb7469e201a511fb8135970c-400wi%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fsunsetgun.typepad.com%252Fsunsetgun%252F2014%252F08%252Ften-years-august-13th-marked-ten-years-of-sunset-gun-of-course-i-forgot-the-actual-day-im-not-good-with-birthdays-orannive.html%3B398%3B400)? ---
**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:** [April 14, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/326 "2015-04-14T02:15:39Z")
> [@j666](#): > > I would like help recognize a young actress and the movie. > > The period was mid-century or earlier. I have a sense of Southern or rural locale. > > She was young, earlier teens. Light hair, in two braids, with straight bangs (fringe). Rather thin, very pale. > > She wore a light knee length skirt and blouse that buttoned up the front. > > She had a slightly odd smile and general sense of being awkward and endearing, but not in a hopeful, positive sense. > > Is this ringing any bells for anyone? If it’s not the person/movie listed above, here’s a loooong shot: [Katy Kurtzman](https://www.google.com/search?q=katy+kurtzman&safe=strict&biw=953&bih=712&noj=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=aXcsVav-G8W6ggTih4GACg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ). One of her roles was set in the 1930s: [When Every Day Was the Fourth of July (1978)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078485/combined) ---
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OK, I’ve asked this before and stumped the Dope, but I’ll try again. 80’s movie, set in LA. Ex-army sniper as protagonist. The only particularly memorable scene in the movie is set up like this: His girlfriend complains to him about some asshole drug dealers who live in the same apartment building. He tries to reason with them, and they tell him to get lost. The next scene shows them sitting around their kitchen table playing loud music and drinking when the lead asshole’s head explodes. Cops talk to asshole #2 and he tells them exactly what happened - they were sitting at the table when his head exploded. Cop looks out the window, and sees mountains in the distance, and knows who might have been able to make the shot. ---
**Author:** ![Jasclyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@Jasclyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasclyn)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/328 "2015-04-20T18:02:13Z")
This is a tv movie (ABC, CBS, or NBC) from the late 80’s probably 86-88. It is about a boy who moves into a new house and befriends a girl who is a ghost. The girl becomes a human again for one night only and on this night there is a big party. It has always stuck with me because it was so enchanting for some reason and I remember talking about it with my friends the next day. Thanks. ---
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This has haunted me for _years_! It was a cartoon, probably educational, but I don’t remember. I think I was in elementary school with other kids. **When did it come out?** 50’s or 40’s? **Who was in it?** It was a cartoon. **What plot if any do you remember?** I have no idea. **What was special to you about it?** There was a rainstorm and the raindrops turned into _raindrops shooting guns_! I think they were machine guns. It scared the heck out of me! ---
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> [@Jasclyn](#): > > This is a tv movie (ABC, CBS, or NBC) from the late 80’s probably 86-88. It is about a boy who moves into a new house and befriends a girl who is a ghost. The girl becomes a human again for one night only and on this night there is a big party. It has always stuck with me because it was so enchanting for some reason and I remember talking about it with my friends the next day. Thanks. Oh! OH! I know this one—[_Child of Glass_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_of_Glass)! I ran across it the other day when I was searching for obscure Disney properties. ---
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Can you name a movie from one scene? Late 60s-early 70s. Tough guy in a bar sticks his fingers in a shot glass, scissor-kicks fingers, and shot glass shatters. ---
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Ellakite wrote: MOVIE #1: Some scientists are trapped in an underground cavern which is roughly bowl-shaped. Fast-flowing mud is streaming down the sides of the cavern, and the little dialogue I recall from the scene indicated that touching this mud would be fatal. (I think at least one scientist falls victim to this strange mud in the last few minutes of the movie.) The last two surviving scientists (a man and a woman IIRC) escape the cavern and the mud by putting on some scuba gear and swimming out via a pool of water at the bottom of the cavern; there’s an underwater tunnel which eventually leads to the surface, but it takes at least a minute of swimming before the survivors reach the surface and safety. I think that may be an “Outer Limits” episode. ---
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I doubt if anyone will know this movie. It was a B-movie i saw in the early 60’s. I can only remember the end and that it scared the shit out of me. At the end (if I remember correctly) a guy drives an old car into some old wooden building that was full of water and the car gradually sank with the guy in it. I think the guy was the baddie in the movie. I would love to know the name of the movie ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/334 "2015-05-10T19:42:48Z")
> [@derekethomason\_hotmail.com](#): > > I doubt if anyone will know this movie. It was a B-movie i saw in the early 60’s. I can only remember the end and that it scared the shit out of me. At the end (if I remember correctly) a guy drives an old car into some old wooden building that was full of water and the car gradually sank with the guy in it. I think the guy was the baddie in the movie. > > I would love to know the name of the movie [The Red House](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039757/) with Edward G. Robinson. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/335 "2015-05-11T01:44:58Z")
80s/90s SF-Horror movie: Scientist team are working on robot bodies that can house human brains. Good scientist discovers evil team leader has nefarious plans for project, gets killed in arranged “accident” and becomes test subject #1. Robot/undead scientist escapes lab, tries to stop evil scientist. For some reason he’s been programmed that if anyone touches him he goes into a berserker fit ---
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> [@pinkfreud](#): > > [The Red House](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039757/) with Edward G. Robinson. Spoiler wanted: what was the terrible secret? (Couldn’t find online). ---
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TV Movie, 1970’s: Alien invaders (who by appearance are A.I.s or energy beings rather than biological) project themselves into and possess human hosts. UFO hunter spends movie trying to foil alien plot (involving a hydroelectric dam? One of the possessed is an engineer working there). Movie had the look and feel of a series pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/338 "2015-05-11T02:27:30Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > 80s/90s SF-Horror movie: Scientist team are working on robot bodies that can house human brains. Good scientist discovers evil team leader has nefarious plans for project, gets killed in arranged “accident” and becomes test subject #1. Robot/undead scientist escapes lab, tries to stop evil scientist. For some reason he’s been programmed that if anyone touches him he goes into a berserker fit My Google-fu turned up this possibility: > **[The Vindicator (1986) ⭐ 4.9 | Action, Drama, Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092172/)** > > 1h 33m | R The Vindicator (1986) An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company’s special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machine that, because of his programming must destroy anything that comes near him. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/339 "2015-05-11T02:37:23Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > TV Movie, 1970’s: Alien invaders (who by appearance are A.I.s or energy beings rather than biological) project themselves into and possess human hosts. UFO hunter spends movie trying to foil alien plot (involving a hydroelectric dam? One of the possessed is an engineer working there). Movie had the look and feel of a series pilot. Maybe this? > **[Night Slaves (TV Movie 1970) ⭐ 6.0 | Mystery, Sci-Fi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066140/)** > > 1h 12m Night Slaves (1970) A man and his wife find themselves stranded in a small western town. He discovers that a strange force has turned the residents into zombies, and runs into a beautiful woman who he believes is the key to the mystery. ---
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> [@Lumpy](#): > > Spoiler wanted: what was the terrible secret? (Couldn’t find online). The secret: Many years ago, two people were murdered, and their bodies are in a horse-drawn carriage deep in the water under the barn. ---
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> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > [The Vindicator (1986) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092172/) > > The Vindicator (1986) Yup, that’s it! > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Maybe this? > > [Night Slaves (TV Movie 1970) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066140/) > > Night Slaves (1970) Nope. [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=16) [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=18)