# 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:** 19
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/362 "2015-09-28T01:05:21Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > …you’re right. I remember that scene now. The nun couldn’t talk… the child had to take care of her. > > You have no idea what it means to know that I wasn’t pornographically dreaming. ANYONE KNOW WHAT MOVIE THIS IS? I don’t remember the title, but I do remember the older girl would relay messages to the others from “Sister”, what they called the nun. And the girls did remember how to say the Lord’s Prayer. What I never could figure out is how their clothes grew to fit them so well, as they got older. And the older girl didn’t tell the others that “Sister” was dead, she wanted to keep her position of authority. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/363 "2015-09-28T01:08:59Z")
I’ve got it! It was _The Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women_ > **[Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (TV Movie 1979) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079598/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2)** > > Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women: Directed by Joseph Pevney. With Steven Keats, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Jayne Kennedy, Kathryn Davis. Some men in a plane land on an uncharted island. They discover that it's inhabited by women. Women who don't trust men.... Not too original of a title. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/364 "2015-09-28T01:10:14Z")
Dammit **Baker**! I just spent 10 minutes putting together details! 🙂 FWIW…here is the amazing post I was going to make: MAYBE…I might be having a particularly impressive Google-Fu moment. How about [Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079598/): > [@](#): > > Some men in a plane land on an uncharted island. They discover that it’s inhabited by women. Women who don’t trust men. They try to get them to help them. [Trailer](http://www.videodetective.com/movies/mysterious-island-of-beautiful-women/2046). Rotten Tomatoes says an alternate title is _Island-Sister Theresa_. The whole movie is available in three parts on Youtube, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/365 "2015-09-28T02:19:37Z")
Goddamn. I spent YEARS wondering if I imagined this movie, and you people sort it out in a matter of hours. (Holy crap. Peter Lawford? Really?) Ghod bless the internet. Now if you could only tell me how to become a millionaire while I sit here on my can… No word on the other movie? At least I know I SAW that movie, in a theatre… ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/366 "2015-09-28T05:08:13Z")
When did it come out? Mid-1960s. Who was in it? no idea. What plot if any do you remember? A group of men planned a robbery. At the end they were making a getaway with the loot, but they were stopped at a railroad crossing due to a train was going through, and the police captured them. The last scene was them in prison planning another robbery. What was special to you about it? It was a British movie, and it was black-and-white. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/367 "2015-09-29T19:45:52Z")
And now I’m never gonna find out what that other movie was. Well, at least I know for sure it wasn’t a really bad 1970s wet dream… ---
**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:** [September 29, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/368 "2015-09-29T23:47:23Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > I have two with which I could use some help: I’m a dedicated bad movie buff, and I could stand to revisit these… > > 1. This one seems to happen on the Planet Of The Apes, except there aren’t any apes. We have our tribe of primitive humans who wear rags and goatskins, and live in houses stolen from Gilligan’s Island, which are easily burned when the amazon babes in fur bikinis invade. Our tribesmen call out to their god, who seems to be a kind of luchador, but he’s killed (he was faking it the whole time), and his young apprentice must go and recruit a really badass black Hercules guy and a youngish Kung Fu master to help him come back and chase off the amazons, with flame throwing tanks made of bamboo, and general badassness. Oh, and for some reason, all three seemed really accomplished at jumping UP cliffs, which they seemed to do a lot. It wasn’t [Battle of the Amazons](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069700/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), was it? ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/369 "2015-09-29T23:55:30Z")
Not quite. This one seems to lack kung fu masters, black Hercules dudes. and luchadors. ---
**Author:** ![Vervain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vervain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vervain)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/370 "2015-09-30T14:29:21Z")
When did it come out? maybe late 70’s early 80’s Who was in it? Don’t know What plot if any do you remember? Group of kids live alone and try to live a normal life going to school and such. What was special to you about it? Grew up poor was one of the very few movies I was able to see. Any other clues you can think of? In one scene the principle of the school they attend insists on meeting the parents. Seems like the kids are on the run a lot. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/371 "2015-09-30T14:55:11Z")
I wasn’t a kid but I saw a movie I liked it’s an old movie , some men were eating some cheese and a little boy put a piece of the cheese under a microscope to look at it then had one of the men look at it too and he spit the cheese out ! LOL! I will have to remember never to do that while eating cheese. I think Lionel Barrymore was in it. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/372 "2015-09-30T14:59:27Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > I wasn’t a kid but I saw a movie I liked it’s an old movie , some men were eating some cheese and a little boy put a piece of the cheese under a microscope to look at it then had one of the men look at it too and he spit the cheese out ! LOL! I will have to remember never to do that while eating cheese. > I think Lionel Barrymore was in it. Could this be The Story of Louis Pasteur? Except Barrymore wasn’t in it. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/373 "2015-10-01T12:30:18Z")
Vervain, this probably isn’t it, since it came out in 1991, but there’s _Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead_. In it, an American family of five children are left to live for the summer with an elderly babysitter while their mother and her boyfriend go to Australia on vacation The babysitter dies of a heart attack. The five children decide to hide her death and live by themselves for the summer: > **[Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101757/)** > > Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead: Directed by Stephen Herek. With Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles. Five siblings are left alone all summer when their mom leaves town and the evil babysitter bites the dust. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/374 "2015-10-01T13:09:17Z")
> [@Vervain](#): > > When did it come out? maybe late 70’s early 80’s > Who was in it? Don’t know > What plot if any do you remember? Group of kids live alone and try to live a normal life going to school and such. > What was special to you about it? Grew up poor was one of the very few movies I was able to see. > > Any other clues you can think of? In one scene the principle of the school they attend insists on meeting the parents. Seems like the kids are on the run a lot. Was it British? [The Kids From 47A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_from_47A) Here’s an episode, the [titles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWHYkjWTXM8) might be enough to remind you of it. ---
**Author:** ![Vervain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vervain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vervain)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/375 "2015-10-01T13:19:06Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Vervain, this probably isn’t it, since it came out in 1991, but there’s _Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead_. In it, an American family of five children are left to live for the summer with an elderly babysitter while their mother and her boyfriend go to Australia on vacation The babysitter dies of a heart attack. The five children decide to hide her death and live by themselves for the summer: > > [Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101757/) Wendell thank you but no that is not the movie I was thinking of. I believe it might have been a made for TV movie. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/376 "2015-10-05T00:00:44Z")
> [@Sarabellum1976](#): > > **Polyanna** with Hayley Mills? oh, no, not at all. This was not a cheerful movie and the young female had a longer, thinner, unutterably sadder face. Hopeful, but barely. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/377 "2015-10-05T00:17:34Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > Not quite. This one seems to lack kung fu masters, black Hercules dudes. and luchadors. So, very much like _Schindler’s List_ in that regard. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/378 "2015-10-05T01:12:25Z")
Movie was probably made in the 1950s- I remember seeing it on TV in the mid 60s when I was 8 or 9. It was a western- wagon train type move. There are two guys getting drunk late at night. All I seem to remember is: they are making motions with their hands simulating they are causing thunder and lightning kinda like they are cracking a whip. The other scene is the drunk young guy playing with a silk bow. Places the bow above his upper lip and says in a Snidely Whiplash voice: “Pay the rent!” Places the bow on the side of his head, and says in a Nell voice: “But I can’t pay the rent” Again Snidely Whiplash, with bow above upper lip: "Pay the rent! Again Nell, with bow on side of his head: “But I can’t pay the rent” Places the bow under his chin to simulate a bow tie, and in a Dudley DoRight-type voice: “I’ll pay the rent.” Nell once again withe the bow on the side of his head: “My hero” ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/379 "2015-10-05T01:21:17Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > Movie was probably made in the 1950s- I remember seeing it on TV in the mid 60s when I was 8 or 9. > > It was a western- wagon train type move. There are two guys getting drunk late at night. > > All I seem to remember is: they are making motions with their hands simulating they are causing thunder and lightning kinda like they are cracking a whip. > > The other scene is the drunk young guy playing with a silk bow. > > Places the bow above his upper lip and says in a Snidely Whiplash voice: “Pay the rent!” > > Places the bow on the side of his head, and says in a Nell voice: “But I can’t pay the rent” > > Again Snidely Whiplash, with bow above upper lip: "Pay the rent! > > Again Nell, with bow on side of his head: “But I can’t pay the rent” > > Places the bow under his chin to simulate a bow tie, and in a Dudley DoRight-type voice: “I’ll pay the rent.” > > Nell once again withe the bow on the side of his head: “My hero” Don’t know the movie but my friend Freako\* Freddie taught me the little story you recount (it was “you must pay the rent!” in his rendition) He used his long hair to illustrate the story. This was in the middle 70’s. \*the ONLY person I ever knew who had his eye shot out, for real. Bow and arrow accident. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/380 "2015-10-05T11:50:31Z")
I saw that routine done on a children’s program in the 1970’s. ---
**Author:** ![mrbell321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mrbell321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrbell321)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/381 "2015-11-03T22:43:16Z")
When did it come out? Early 90’s… possibly late 80’s Who was in it? No idea What plot if any do you remember? Other than when watching the Matrix, I always think “Trinity looks like the girl from that bad movie I saw once”. So, black leather, maybe sunglasses, black hair. Though possibly long, and unslicked. There was definitely a visual motif of a large hand gun, possibly a revolver(Magnum .44, probably black). What was special to you about it? Nothing, I’m pretty sure it was terrible. Any other clues you can think of? This is all possibly completely wrong: She was an assassin and received her orders via an arcade game… maybe? There was an arcade machine in the film… I feel like it served a purpose. Maybe the game was a shooter game and that’s where the gun came in. Post-apocalyptic. Or at least there were crumbling buildings and maybe sand… I want to say the name of the movie was “The Eliminators” or “The Exterminators” or even “The Revolver” but I can’t find any movies matching that… [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=18) [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=20)