# 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:** 21
**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:** [January 2, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/403 "2016-01-02T17:47:00Z")
> [@terrylay](#): > > I watched a cartoon movie last ten year and I don’t remember the title…In the movie,all the adults are kipnapped by the aliens and the children are left in the world…The children later notice the cause and they planned to recue their parents… This sounds like [Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268397/). ---
**Author:** ![Yolan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e56c9b/32.png) [@Yolan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yolan)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/404 "2016-01-28T21:02:10Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > The success of [What’s the earliest movie that you liked that you still like?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=712040) which I started yesterday at 11:43 AM, makes me want to add a wrinkle. So as not to hijack that thread with this new twist, here’s a new thread. > > There may be some movie you saw at such a young age, or else are unable to remember its name, but you really liked and would like to know its title. Just try to give as much info on it as you can and maybe we can figure out what it must have been. Or at least make some decent guesses. > > When did it come out? > Who was in it? > What plot if any do you remember? > What was special to you about it? > > Any other clues you can think of? it’s a tv film about a young blond woman who tells her story about how she became dependent on dope. it’s not go ask alice, but similar. early 1970, 71 or first half 72. it also showed how they coped in those days with rehab, she was in rehab and was tied up at the wrist to an other girl, in rehab longer who was to guide and control her. i remember this movie having a huge impact on me have been searching for it for years never finding it. please anyone, sound familiar…? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/405 "2016-01-29T00:34:11Z")
Okay, I am going to find out where that image in my head is from. Can anyone recommend good sites for quickly scanning movie and television stills from the 50s and early 60s? ---
**Author:** ![Nancie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@Nancie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancie)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/406 "2016-02-09T05:24:37Z")
I saw a movie sometime in the 1960’s when I was a kid. I have this vague memory of a father leaving his two children either at the beach or on an island and they are crying. I’m pretty sure they called him papoon. I know this is very vague, but if you can solve this mystery, you’d be my hero. Apparently, this scene made an impression on me, but I’ve never been able to figure out what movie it is from. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/407 "2016-02-09T10:02:47Z")
There was one that had a prologue and epilogue of the woman showing pictures of houses and who lived in them. I think it was about a navy pilot and Rick Jason was the anti-hero. A woman in love with a soldier in the French army, and she was called Mdmsl. Cigarette. Three misfits in a private military academy (the Red Wooden Indian?) A couple of submarine movies including the one that starred Tony Curtis. There was another one wherein the submarine was painted pink, and another that had women on board and they had to jettison even women’s brassiere to fool the Germans. Two James Cagney pilot movies. One wherein he was test flying a plane with de-icers through a snow storm, and another wherein he had to ram an enemy fighter head-on. A western that starred Ernest Borgnine and Sammy Davis Jr. SDJ played a detective sent to help find EB’s daughter who was abducted. A John Wayne western that featured young boys being trained to be cow pokes. Another western wherein the man was called Bushwack Gentry(?) A mayan/aztec setting starring George Chakiris and Yul Brynner. I think it also featured a young Michael Douglas (the archer shooting from a wooden tower already set on fire by the enemy.) At least two Custer movies wherein they played the Irish Kilt. [many more that will come out since you popped the question.] ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/408 "2016-02-09T10:04:28Z")
> [@Nancie](#): > > I saw a movie sometime in the 1960’s when I was a kid. I have this vague memory of a father leaving his two children either at the beach or on an island and they are crying. I’m pretty sure they called him papoon. > I know this is very vague, but if you can solve this mystery, you’d be my hero. > Apparently, this scene made an impression on me, but I’ve never been able to figure out what movie it is from. This isn’t the original Blue Lagoon wherein they grew up, became lovers and had a baby? ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/409 "2016-02-09T11:36:43Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > A couple of submarine movies including the one that starred Tony Curtis. There was another one wherein the submarine was painted pink, and another that had women on board and they had to jettison even women’s brassiere to fool the Germans. > A John Wayne western that featured young boys being trained to be cow pokes. Operation Petticoat and “The Cowboys”. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/410 "2016-02-09T11:39:40Z")
There was this movie I swear starred Andy Griffith and what was different was that Griffith played a bad guy terrorizing a young man who he had gone into the desert with. I’d read once the Griffith agreed to the movie to get away from his good guy role on the Andy Griffith show. Only I cannot find it on Griffith’s website. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/411 "2016-02-09T11:39:59Z")
> [@Nancie](#): > > I saw a movie sometime in the 1960’s when I was a kid. I have this vague memory of a father leaving his two children either at the beach or on an island and they are crying. I’m pretty sure they called him papoon. > I know this is very vague, but if you can solve this mystery, you’d be my hero. > Apparently, this scene made an impression on me, but I’ve never been able to figure out what movie it is from. Poppi? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/412 "2016-02-09T13:02:27Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Three misfits in a private military academy (the Red Wooden Indian?) Reminds me of Bless the Beasts and the Children? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/413 "2016-02-09T13:42:43Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > There was this movie I swear starred Andy Griffith and what was different was that Griffith played a bad guy terrorizing a young man who he had gone into the desert with. I’d read once the Griffith agreed to the movie to get away from his good guy role on the Andy Griffith show. > > Only I cannot find it on Griffith’s website. IMdB to the rescue: “[Savages](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072116/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3)” Yeah, Griffith was going through a phase in the '70s where he was trying to “nasty-up” his image. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/414 "2016-02-09T15:28:55Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > A mayan/aztec setting starring George Chakiris and Yul Brynner. I think it also featured a young Michael Douglas (the archer shooting from a wooden tower already set on fire by the enemy.) \ Looks like “[Kings of the Sun](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057225/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_38)” ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/415 "2016-02-10T09:17:05Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Reminds me of Bless the Beasts and the Children? Nope, that was a 70’s movie about semi-runaway kids, with a Karen Carpenter theme song. The one I mentioned is a black and white romcom. ---
**Author:** ![pompeybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8c91f0/32.png) [@pompeybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pompeybear)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/416 "2016-02-14T06:58:17Z")
Mid-80s. Probably a made for TV movie. A little girl is kidnapped (I think mistakenly) by two older guys for whom she grows an attachment. I just remember them out camping and singing something like “oh whiskey, oh whiskey, I wish I was a duck, because if water where whiskey, I’d go down, but never come up” ---
**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:** [February 14, 2016, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/417 "2016-02-14T11:03:28Z")
_Savannah Smiles_?: > **[Savannah Smiles (1982) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084633/)** > > Savannah Smiles: Directed by Pierre De Moro. With Mark Miller, Donovan Scott, Bridgette Andersen, Chris Robinson. Savannah is the only child of a wealthy politician, Richard Driscoll, who is more concerned with his image and career than with his... ---
**Author:** ![pompeybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8c91f0/32.png) [@pompeybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pompeybear)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/418 "2016-02-14T21:27:09Z")
Wow. That’s it. You’re good. Apparently the song was “Rye Whisky” ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/419 "2016-02-15T09:06:10Z")
> [@mrbell321](#): > > 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… > **[The Silencer (1992) ⭐ 4.0 | Action, Crime, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105408/)** > > 1h 32m | R The Silencer, 1992. The DVD cover is horrible; I’ve also linked to the laserdisc cover, which may help. > **[LaserDisc Database - Silencer, The \[ID2412AC\] on LD LaserDisc](https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/05142/ID2412AC/Silencer-The)** > > LDDb.com - The LaserDisc Database - Collections, Wishlists, Marketplace of obsolete and niche video formats (LD/CED/VHD/D-VHS/HD DVD) ---
**Author:** ![crcgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@crcgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crcgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/420 "2016-02-16T05:58:04Z")
When I was young I saw the opening of a movie that I thought would be fun - it showed a cartoon mouse getting into a spaceship in the opening. It was on TV in about 1971 late at night. Of course it wasn’t at all what I expected but the opeing has always stayed with me - and driven me nuts trying to figure out what movie it was! ---
**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:** [February 16, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/421 "2016-02-16T10:35:25Z")
[The Mouse on the Moon.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_on_the_Moon) It isn’t a literal mouse, it’s a fictional tiny insignificant little country, about the size of the Vatican. The opening credits show a cartoon muse, but there are no mice in the film. It’s a sequel to [The Mouse That Roared](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared_%28film%29). You might like to watch that one first. ---
**Author:** ![towzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@towzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/towzie)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/422 "2016-02-19T02:21:50Z")
This has been bothering me for a very, very long time! I’m so glad I came across this thread. I have been searching for months for a movie from my childhood and I’ve even requited my friends to do the same but I can’t find ANYTHING. I was born in 1994, to give some kind of timeline and I remember watching this movie when I was pretty young. I recall my family owning a bunch of VHS tapes with animated fairytales. This particular movie was one of those. I’m not sure if this was a full feature film or if it was just a segment on this tape with other stories. I remember a title screen and opening credits. The animation is similar to what we associate with 80s/early 90s animated films/cartoons. The style of “The Princess and the Goblin” or “The Swan Princess” comes to mind. From what I can recall from the plot, a group of children (I think they may have been siblings) wander into the woods to look for something, I believe. The children leave a path of breadcrumbs which of course are eaten by birds. As night falls, they realize that they are lost in the woods. However, they come against a house in the distance where a giant lives. His human-sized wife invites them in to spend the night. The giant and his wife also have some human-sized daughters of their own. At this point, my memory is so blank. I recall the giant getting the urge to eat one of his daughters and he even attempts to. I think that the kids all escape and find their way back to their father’s house. So there are a couple fairytales that are referenced in here but no amount of googling has given me results. ANY help would be majorly appreciated! I believed for a long time that I must have dreamt this movie up, but my brother says he remembers the giant who tried to eat his daughter, so it’s bothered me beyond belief. [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=20) [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=22)