# 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:** 25
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/483 "2016-10-12T20:47:17Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > . However, when you blow out the candles, they explode… > > Was this an episode of the Prisoner or a movie I have forgotten? I saw it on TV in the late 80’s. The Prisoner [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZejtdJSPs&t=27m28s) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/484 "2016-10-12T21:02:53Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > The Prisoner > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZejtdJSPs&t=27m28s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZejtdJSPs&t=27m28s) Thank you , and your answer confirms I must have been told this before but forgot again. ---
**Author:** ![readaholic-94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@readaholic-94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/readaholic-94)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/485 "2016-12-01T11:07:36Z")
**When did it come out?** late 90’s early 00’s \*\*Who was in it? \*\*i don’t know **What plot if any do you remember?** It was about a teenage actress who goes back home after being away for la film and has to go back to school. She goes through the typical teenage character building. going from a self important actress to a more humble girl. **What was special to you about it?** I just can’t remember the name and it’s been bugging me for years \*\*Any other clues you can think of? \*\* The cover was a heap of stars with her face in the middle of the biggest star. Her name was part of the title. But I’m pretty sure it was one word like haylywood. something like that. they perform a school play of Romeo and Juliet. it starts off with them on a plane heading home. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/486 "2016-12-01T13:54:44Z")
Here’s one that has stumped me for over 10 years: **When seen:** Early 1960s \*\*Genre: \*\* It was a Sinbad voyage or similar, much of the action occurred on ships **Locale:** Like Sinbad, it was set in a vague middle-Eastern location **Plot:** There’s a nefarious vizier or wizard who (as usual) wants to find something of great value (vague, I know) **Memorable Scene:** The evil vizier or wizard creates an automaton or life-size doll in the shape of a beautiful woman, As I recall, she is dressed in a costume similar to that of a belly-dancer (overflowing halter, harem pants, bare midriff). The purpose of the automaton is to assassinate a king or emperor. It will do so by hugging the victim tightly. In order to test his creation, the vizier calls in some innocent guard and tells him, “Hey, this beautiful woman would like to meet you.” The guard is obviously pleased and walks right over, only to be embraced to death! He-heh! The entire time, the expression on the automaton’s face never changes. I remember this one scene because it was quite terrifying to me at my age to see a beautiful “woman” killing some poor innocent guy. I have literally (in the proper sense) gone through the IMDB lists of fantasy movies for this period and can’t seem to identify it. As I recall, the production was typical of many 1960s fantasy movies. I don’t remember if there were any Harryhausen effects or much else about it. Help! This drives me nuts! ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/487 "2016-12-01T14:01:52Z")
Kid was kidnapped. Movie was probably 80s, saw it in 1989 on TV. Most interesting line was one of the kidnappers saying to the other, “What goes through a bug’s mind when it hits your windshield? His ass!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/488 "2016-12-01T18:40:23Z")
> [@torino\_1](#): > > Hello all, > > I have a very vague memory of a film I watched when I was a kid, probably 5 or 6 years old. > It’s an old movie, comedy, black and white. I don’t remember much, but the protagonist was with maybe a psychiatrist? or a friend where the latter takes him back to some stages/memories of his life and made him relive the experience to get some answers or solve something-probably through hypnosis. I remember the protagonist acting like a baby in a man’s body when the “psychiatrist” took him back to his early childhood. > > Also, there was a scene “maybe” that has lots of foam in a room/hall and everybody slipped and fell or something like that. I’m also pretty sure that the hero had a girl whom he liked. Dunno if she’s a girlfriend or a fiancé or anything else. > I know I don’t remember most of the details, but this is what I got :smack: > > Thanks in advance. Not a comedy, but you might be thinking of this: > **[Freud: The Secret Passion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freud:_The_Secret_Passion)** > > Freud: The Secret Passion, or simply Freud, is a 1962 American biographical drama film directed by John Huston and produced by Wolfgang Reinhardt. Based on the life of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, it stars Montgomery Clift as Freud and Susannah York as his patient Cecily Koertner. Other cast members include Larry Parks, Susan Kohner, Eileen Herlie, Eric Portman, and David McCallum. The screenplay was by Charles Kaufman and Reinhardt, with some elements from a script by Jean-Paul Sartre, w... David McCallum was taken back to his infancy, and Susannah York’s father died in a brothel. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/489 "2016-12-01T18:46:42Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > This thread has been around for a while. (Great idea for a thread, btw, **Zeldar**! I had been thinking of posting such a thread myself.) > > I had one that had been shown to me twice, the first time in kindergarten. I was like 4. They introduced it as an “English film.” I didn’t grasp at first that English meant a whole other country. I only knew it as the language we spoke. When the film ran, I got really puzzled… because it was almost impossible for little me who’d never traveled farther than Ontario to understand the accents… what did English really \*mean \*if I couldn’t understand them speaking English? 😕 So that was the beginning of my understanding of the big wide world of humans, really. I could name countries on the map, but hadn’t had any inkling how different people could be. Even English speakers. :smack: > > But then I found out on my own what movie I had been thinking of: _[The Salvage Gang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgnUhE3zP4I)_. Turns out it had been made in 1958, the year before I was born, and was remarkably progressive for its era: the casting had black and white, girls as well as boys, all equal as protagonists. Pleasant surprise. So I just had to include a shoutout for the Salvage Gang. I saw this movie one afternoon in class when I was in the sixth grade, and it made a great impression on me. I too wished I could be in a gang like the one in the film! For years I wondered what the title was, and it wasn’t until fairly recently that I found it on the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/490 "2016-12-01T18:48:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > David McCallum was taken back to his infancy. Well, early childhood at least. In his hypnotic state, he was old enough to say “Mother.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/491 "2016-12-01T19:08:36Z")
> [@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? Disney made a film called _ **The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake** _ supposedly based on the work of Bertrand Brinley. It was on TV when I was maybe 14 or 15, which would put it around 1969–70. It was a very, _very_ loose adaptation of the story. I watched maybe ten minutes of it and then switched it off when I realized it was nothing like the chapter in the book. All I remember was that Burgess Meredith (!) seemed to be the main character and was all stoked up about something being in the lake. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/492 "2016-12-01T21:55:16Z")
Year: Who knows? 1950s? Early 1960s? Some sort of Middle Eastern/Arabian setting. One of the characters stabs another on the other side of a curtain. Later someone asks “Where is An-Kabar?” The response: “An-Kabar is dead.” I would have seen it on TV in the mid to late 1960s. (As a kid, I remember hearing it as “Un-Kabar,” but that’s probably not currect. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/493 "2016-12-01T23:31:36Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Kid was kidnapped. Movie was probably 80s, saw it in 1989 on TV. Most interesting line was one of the kidnappers saying to the other, “What goes through a bug’s mind when it hits your windshield? His ass!” [Easy google](https://www.google.com/#q=%22What+goes+through+a+bug%27s+mind+when+it+hits+your+windshield%3F+His+ass!%22+movie+quote). It is a movie called [_Cohen and Tate_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097074/). ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/494 "2016-12-02T03:49:00Z")
I’ve been doing that search for years and didn’t get that information. But thank you, I’d like to see that one again. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/495 "2016-12-02T03:53:12Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Year: Who knows? 1950s? Early 1960s? > Some sort of Middle Eastern/Arabian setting. > One of the characters stabs another on the other side of a curtain. > Later someone asks “Where is An-Kabar?” The response: “An-Kabar is dead.” > > I would have seen it on TV in the mid to late 1960s. > > (As a kid, I remember hearing it as “Un-Kabar,” but that’s probably not currect. I’m going out on a limb here and guess this was the _ **Star Trek** _ episode “Friday’s Child,” but there was no curtain involved. Aka-ar (“Leader of the Ten Tribes”) was killed in battle during a revolt. However, they did live in tents with lots of rugs and tapestries scattered about. > **[Friday's Child (Star Trek: The Original Series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday's_Child_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series))** > > "Friday's Child" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by D.C. Fontana and directed by Joseph Pevney, it was first broadcast December 1, 1967. > In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise become entangled in a planet's tribal power struggle. Adding to their difficulty is the presence of the Klingons, and a woman (Julie Newmar) who does not want her unborn child. > The episode's title is derived from a traditional English ... ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/496 "2016-12-02T03:58:38Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Early 80s(?) teen beach romp movie. All I remember of it is that the kids (early college) were staying in the beach house of one of the teen-bimbo’s dad. Someone stashed pot in his sauna (the dry kind, not the wet kind) and when dad turns it on, dad\* gets wasted and eventually boinks (no more than R rated) one of the teen bimbo’s friends. > > The movie was advertised as being funny. It lied!!! 😉 > > \*Dad looked vaguely like a taller Sonny Bono, the boinked bimbo was blond. I think. _ **American Pie 2** _, maybe? :dubious: 😕 > **[American Pie 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_2)** > > American Pie 2 is a 2001 American sex comedy film directed by James B. Rogers and written by Adam Herz and David H. Steinberg from a story by Herz. A sequel to the 1999 comedy film American Pie, it is the second film in the American Pie series and stars Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Seann William Scott, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Eugene Levy. The film follows the sexual exploits of five friends – Jim, Kevin... ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/497 "2016-12-02T04:38:36Z")
One large vehicle…an RV or a bus…is driving through the desert. Not on a road, mind you, but on the sand itself. To keep the wheels from sinking into the sand, a brigade of men putting mesh rails on the sand for the wheels to drive on the front, and picking the rails up from the back and putting them up front again. I get the vibe they were government men. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/498 "2016-12-02T12:53:09Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I’ve been doing that search for years and didn’t get that information. But thank you, I’d like to see that one again. I seem to have broke Google. Now, instead of showing an extensive series of links (including the IMDB one) the search terms reveal only this SDMB thread. (ETA search still works if you remove the quotation marks. Worked with them before, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/499 "2016-12-02T15:14:21Z")
So I’ve got one that I have little hope will be answerable, but I’ll toss it out there. This isn’t a movie, I don’t think, but some type of short piece. It was in the mid-1980s, and a couple of relatives were visiting my family and I was flipping through channels on the TV. I stopped on PBS (and I’m very sure it was PBS) where there some animation playing. I only remember it very vaguely, but it was pretty psychedelic, involving at at least one point weird creatures either eating each other or transforming into each other (IIRC, one of them was vaguely Q-Bert-like.) It seems like something that would have come from _Yellow Submarine_, but isn’t from _Yellow Submarine_. I’ve been wondering about this one for many years, and have done all sorts of Google searches. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/500 "2016-12-02T15:57:52Z")
Allegro non Troppo > **[allegro non troppo - - Video Search Results](https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVjwIlUFYUmUA.h8nnIlQ?p=allegro%2Bnon%2Btroppo&fr=yhs-mozilla-002&fr2=piv-web&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002#id=2&vid=20aac6cc28b3e1eda7b623b37ffc20b1&action=view)** > > The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/501 "2016-12-02T16:46:39Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > Allegro non Troppo > [allegro non troppo - - Video Search Results](https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVjwIlUFYUmUA.h8nnIlQ?p=allegro+non+troppo&fr=yhs-mozilla-002&fr2=piv-web&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002#id=2&vid=20aac6cc28b3e1eda7b623b37ffc20b1&action=view) Thanks, that has to be it. I wasn’t counting on an answer at all, much less one in half an hour! ---
**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:** [December 2, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/502 "2016-12-02T21:35:37Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > One large vehicle…an RV or a bus…is driving through the desert. > > Not on a road, mind you, but on the sand itself. > > To keep the wheels from sinking into the sand, a brigade of men putting mesh rails on the sand for the wheels to drive on the front, and picking the rails up from the back and putting them up front again. > > I get the vibe they were government men. This might be a scene from [Play Dirty](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063443/). [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=24) [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=26)