# 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:** 20
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/382 "2015-11-03T22:57:20Z")
> [@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” This landlord-tenant scenario was also a Utica Club beer commercial in the mid-70s. “You must pay the rent” “I can’t pay the rent. Have a Utica Club.” “You don’t have to pay the rent” “I’ll pay the rent.” “Not only do you not have to pay the rent, I think you’re due for a paint job!” ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/383 "2015-11-04T05:12:14Z")
> [@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? Anne of Green Gables was a pale rural orphon who wore her (red) hair in two braids, but otherwise rather Pollyanna-ish. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/384 "2015-11-04T05:23:30Z")
This was the first “drama” I ever enjoyed. (As I kid I only liked adventure/commedy). It ended in an outside shot, with the cast frozen (like the start of a stage musical), with the camera pulling out and away. That’s the bit I still remember. They reach the crux of the plot, and everybody is just there, and the movie ends. It doesn’t resolve anything, but it’s all out in the open. I think it’s been revieled that the leading female is also been sleeping with the patriarch of the group. I think that the leading male is lodgeing in the house for some reason. I think that it’s the same movie where, earlier, when he moves in, the leading lady tells him that she’s sleeping in the room below, and if he wants anything, to just knock on the floor. On TV in the late 70’s, so it would have to predate that. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/385 "2015-11-04T12:02:32Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Anne of Green Gables was a pale rural orphon who wore her (red) hair in two braids, but otherwise rather Pollyanna-ish. Thank you, but it was in black and white, and very sad. ---
**Author:** ![glindsay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@glindsay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glindsay)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/386 "2015-11-05T03:01:43Z")
_When did it come out?_ **1950’s, maybe 1960’s** _Who was in it?_ **No clue** _What plot if any do you remember?_ All based on my imperfect recollections: Two strangers, a man and a woman, wake up in a house with no memory of how they got there. They may have no memories at all. I don’t remember. They try doors and windows, all blocked (by metal panels?) No phone. Eventually, they cut a hole in the wall and see stars, like they are in space. That’s all I got. _What was special to you about it?_ I remember watching it with my brother one night. But, we had to turn it off before the end and we missed the (hopefully satisfying) ending. _Any other clues you can think of?_ Might have been Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode, rather than a movie, but I recall it being longer and slower moving than a tv show. 70% sure it was B&W. Most of the action takes place in the living room. This board has had some success, but I am thin on details, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![krazkaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@krazkaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krazkaz)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/388 "2015-11-19T01:58:09Z")
In the 1960’s I saw this movie at the theatre. A comedy. A gorrilla was breaking into homes, killing the people and stealing their bananas. I remember two scenes. When he came in a kitchen and killed a little old lady. I think he used a banana as the weapon. Another when a reporter was next to a large bag of victims. someone inside moved and the reporter slightly sidekicked the bag as a hush up while still reporting. PLEASE HELP ~ NOBODY BELIEVES ME! While I’m here, does anyone else remember vanilla Cap’n Crunch? Round and it had a large white wale named Nilly ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/389 "2015-11-19T02:58:15Z")
Can’t help you with the movie, yet, but [Vanilly Crunch](http://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=383) was my favorite. The whale was named Wilma. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/390 "2015-11-19T21:46:23Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > 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 first movie that came to mind was [_ **The Park is Mine** _](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Park_Is_Mine_%281986_film%29), but since I’ve never actually watched the film - only remembered seeing the VHS box on the wall at the locally-owned video rental shack back when such a thing was common - I couldn’t say that was it. Wikipedia says that the park Tommy Lee Jones takes over is Central Park in New York, so unless you got that detail wrong, I must be _way_ off! > [@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. This sounds a lot like the plot of the sci-fi novel [_ **Needle** _](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_%28novel%29), which absolutely had to be the inspiration for my second-favourite Kyle MacLachlan film, [_ **The Hidden** _](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_%28film%29). I want that car. I need the keys! ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/391 "2015-11-19T22:40:42Z")
> [@krazkaz](#): > > In the 1960’s I saw this movie at the theatre. A comedy. A gorrilla was breaking into homes, killing the people and stealing their bananas. > I remember two scenes. When he came in a kitchen and killed a little old lady. I think he used a banana as the weapon. Another when a reporter was next to a large bag of victims. someone inside moved and the reporter slightly sidekicked the bag as a hush up while still reporting. > PLEASE HELP ~ NOBODY BELIEVES ME! Sounds like a version of Poe’s detective story \*The Murders In The Rue Morgue. \* Here’s a couple of versions: [Phantom of the Rue Morgue](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047348/?ref_=ttmc_mc_tt)(1954) too early? [Murders in the Rue Morgue](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067457/?ref_=ttmc_mc_tt)(1971) too late? [Here’s a list of adaptations.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue#Adaptations) ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/392 "2015-11-19T23:28:28Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > This sounds a lot like the plot of the sci-fi novel [_ **Needle** _](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_%28novel%29), which absolutely had to be the inspiration for my second-favourite Kyle MacLachlan film, [_ **The Hidden** _](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_%28film%29). I want that car. I need the keys! Forget MacLachlan, the real story is the sad fate of _Adam-12_’s Sgt. “Mac” MacDonald. ☹ ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/393 "2015-11-20T01:00:10Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > This sounds a lot like the plot of the sci-fi novel [_ **Needle** _](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_%28novel%29), which absolutely had to be the inspiration for my second-favourite Kyle MacLachlan film, [_ **The Hidden** _](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_%28film%29). I want that car. I need the keys! I think I still may have a copy of _The Hidden_ on VHS somewhere. Interesting precursor to MacLachlan’s role as Agent Cooper in _Twin Peaks_. ---
**Author:** ![djh14090](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@djh14090](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djh14090)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/394 "2015-11-30T05:59:28Z")
It has to have been years since I’ve seen this movie. I remember only one scene from the whole thing but it’s always stuck out in my mind. I witch type woman dressed in red - possibly with a crown - jumps off a tall tower patio; she’s about to dive into an ocean chasing after something (might have been a child or some kind of protagonist). She had begun to change form into a snake (a red cobra), so her face looked horrifying with fangs and such. She dives into the ocean and has changed into said snake form. The kid or whatever protagonist is hiding inside a cave underwater. The snake swims past the whole and he breaths a sigh of relief only to look back and see the snake woman at the mouth of the cave laughing maniacally. That’s when my memory cuts out. I know it’s not much to go on. It was an animated movie (possibly Disney ). Probably a kids movie that just seemed scary to me at the time. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![littledork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@littledork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/littledork)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/395 "2015-12-01T01:23:47Z")
I can’t remember the name or year it was made, but I know I saw it with my dad and he doesn’t remember the movie at all. It was about this boy, who first of all, wasn’t even born normally, he was removed from his mother in this big gooey sack, and within like 5 minutes of him being born he was the size of a 2 year old, he could walk and his hair grew and everything. He was kept in this facility he was born in and I don’t remember if he ever got out. He kept growing really fast and I remember on his 11th birthday, he was the size of a 25 year old, and someone tried to kill him because he was a monster or something. I can’t find info on this movie anywhere! It’s like it doesn’t exist! ---
**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:** [December 1, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/396 "2015-12-01T01:41:43Z")
> [@littledork](#): > > I can’t remember the name or year it was made, but I know I saw it with my dad and he doesn’t remember the movie at all. > It was about this boy, who first of all, wasn’t even born normally, he was removed from his mother in this big gooey sack, and within like 5 minutes of him being born he was the size of a 2 year old, he could walk and his hair grew and everything. He was kept in this facility he was born in and I don’t remember if he ever got out. He kept growing really fast and I remember on his 11th birthday, he was the size of a 25 year old, and someone tried to kill him because he was a monster or something. I can’t find info on this movie anywhere! It’s like it doesn’t exist! Sounds like “[The Fly II](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097368/?ref_=nv_sr_3),” although I haven’t seen it. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/397 "2015-12-01T05:10:06Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > 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. I finally determined the film, but I got the plot mostly wrong. The film is [The Wrong Arm of the Law](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056704/combined), and it starred Peter Sellers. A railroad crossing was involved near the end, but they got away and did not wind up in prison. I’m pretty sure I saw it on the same bill as _The Pink Panther_, which was out at about the same time. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/398 "2015-12-01T06:11:00Z")
You may be conflating it with [Go To Blazes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_to_Blazes_%281962_film%29). That one does end with the crooks being transported to prison, and planning their next job. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/399 "2015-12-01T17:27:35Z")
I’ve tried this before but no luck. I saw it on TV sometime in the 90’s, probably early to mid. An middle to older-ish woman is in a bed. She’s tied there by duct tape, her hands are bound kind of above her, her mouth is taped. There’s another woman in the room, she’s the one who’s responsible but she’s like, nervous or freaking out or something, definitely not like “ha ha, now I’ve got you” mood. A black guy comes into the room, he’s like “OMG WTF?!” and he tries to free the woman in the duct tape. The other woman panicks, she obviously wants to keep her prisoner, she looks around frantically and picks up a pair of scissors and stabs the black guy in the back. He flails around trying to pull it out until he finally collapses and dies. The duct taped woman can only watch as all this is going on. In another scene that I’m pretty sure was the same movie, a man and another woman was in bed, you see her from her back as she strips. They fuck but you don’t see it, the scene cuts away to her leaving the bed. I don’t remember anything else about the movie. I mostly want to look it up so I can figure out why that woman was duct taped to the bed. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/400 "2015-12-02T01:15:35Z")
YogSosoth writes: \> In another scene that I’m pretty sure was the same movie, a man and another \> woman was in bed, you see her from her back as she strips. They fuck but you \> don’t see it, the scene cuts away to her leaving the bed. Approximately 50% of all R-rated movies ever made. ---
**Author:** ![Katieboo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Katieboo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katieboo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/401 "2015-12-03T05:10:08Z")
When did it come out?- I have no idea. Who was in it?- I don’t know. What plot if any do you remember?- I don’t know. What was special to you about it?- It was very creepy. There was a scene where a women was hiding in her room and put up a mattress to block the doorway and a black spike thingy came out and shock a spike at her and she passed out. Then the last thing I can remember is something carrying her through the woods. Then, this alien-like creature took her? Any other clues you can think of? Just attack black spikes. Very realistic looking, but the movie was OLD . Not black and white, but OLD. ---
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