# 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:** 28
**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:** [July 21, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/543 "2017-07-21T22:48:08Z")
Seems to be up; however, the first try went to Yahoo! ---
**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:** [July 21, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/544 "2017-07-21T23:06:51Z")
I may have to go to the library just to use some other computer to try the site. I swear I’m either jinxed or on some secret internet blacklist. > [@](#): > > This site can’t be reached > > [irememberthismovie.com](http://irememberthismovie.com)’s server DNS address could not be found. > DNS\_PROBE\_FINISHED\_NXDOMAIN ---
**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:** [July 22, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/545 "2017-07-22T15:33:33Z")
Site finally responding again. Also, I’ll repeat my mystery movie question here: I once caught the very end of an animated movie on television. An army of shrews (dressed in Napoleonic-era army uniforms) were being catapulted over the battlements of a castle where a human girl was being held prisoner by reptilian creatures similar to a cross between dragons and velociraptors. The shrews had venomous bites and each raptor would quickly succumb when bitten on the tail. I _think_ this might have been aired on the Sunday (not Saturday) morning children’s programming time slot that CBS had once upon a time. But I’m far from certain about that. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/546 "2017-07-22T16:49:59Z")
NOW I find the exact right combination of search terms to find the needle in the haystack: “The Talking Parcel”: adaptation of the book (a.k.a. The Battle For Castle Cockatrice") by Gerald Durrell. Featured on PBS’s “Long Ago And Far Away” series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kamWetCF65g (OK, they’re cockatrices. Mostly bird, although they do have long reptilian tails and clawed hands). ---
**Author:** ![Nemat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@Nemat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nemat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/547 "2017-07-29T04:32:30Z")
I remember an old movie (black and white, I think) with the premise that a guy is stranded at an old house with secret passages where girls sing a weird song and where the end scene takes place in a barn and he gets stabbed with a hay hook but pushes the person into a wheat thresher. The whole movie takes place in the creepy old house and the creepy girl uses the secret passageways. Movie is probably from 50’s or 60’s. ---
**Author:** ![Gem612ini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@Gem612ini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gem612ini)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/548 "2017-07-29T09:05:59Z")
When did it come out? Late 70’s early 80’s Who was in it? Don’t remember :smack: What plot if any do you remember? No clue :smack: What was special to you about it? It was the first time I got to watch a scary movie 🙂 :eek: Any other clues you can think of? Ok bare with me I was live 5 when I saw this and I only remember a small bit.:o So I know there was blood coming out of the pipes in the kitchen. ( kitchen was a bright color maybe yellow) The family was getting ready for a kids birthday party. This is what I think I remember a family consisting of a Father, Mother, a teenager child & maybe 2 or 3 smaller kids (maybe 12 or 11 in age on down) no toddlers or babies. They moved into a new house before the party, wasn’t in a big city more like rural area but not like out in the country. Not much to go on I know but I’ve been looking for this movie for over 30 years 😕 PLEASE HELP!!:)😛 ---
**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:** [July 29, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/549 "2017-07-29T09:56:20Z")
> [@Gem612ini](#): > > So I know there was blood coming out of the pipes in the kitchen. It was probably _Child’s Play_, an episode of the _Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense_. I can’t describe it without spoiling the twist, but it’s a commonly half-remembered movie. [This link](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088909/synopsis) covers the plot well. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/550 "2017-07-29T10:42:27Z")
[The House That Bled to Death](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220543/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) [clip with bleeding pipes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ETexk6rkg) ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/551 "2017-07-30T03:21:11Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > Came out in 1940’s (prior to Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier) or perhaps the 1950’s. I saw in 70’s. Pilots or (pilot/copilot) of plane(s) that break the sound barrier encounter civilization that somehow lives there. One of the pilots falls for a supersonic girl, who is the daughter of the grand poobah (I remember him as a cross between Perry White on TVs Adventures of Superman and of Peter Parker’s ‘Gentle Uncle Ben’ in the Sunday comics Spiderman). At the end, the pilots are able to return to our sub-sonic world but I don’t remember how. That is all I remember, no actors or year of release. It has bugged me for decades. Much of this description fits _Beyond the Time Barrier_ > **[Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) ⭐ 5.3 | Romance, Sci-Fi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053651/?ref_=nv_sr_1)** > > 1h 14m | Not Rated ---
**Author:** ![two\_by\_two](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@two\_by\_two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/two_by_two)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/552 "2017-07-30T23:12:49Z")
It was an animated movie about Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood. However, it was very different from all the other animated versions because this one did not look hokey like the ones for children. It was almost like paintings. There was very little dialogue. In fact, when it came on I didn’t see the credits so I almost didn’t know what it was. It was on t.v. I want to say late 90s or early 2000s. I think the same time as “Prince of Egypt”. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/553 "2017-07-30T23:33:55Z")
[Fantasia 2000](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoUaA1Nxgsg)? Or a clip from it? ---
**Author:** ![Rhette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Rhette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhette)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/554 "2017-07-31T04:46:46Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > Well, I don’t know if I can honestly state that I actually _liked_ the film I’m going to attempt to describe (except maybe at a certain level), but it sure has stuck in my head for a long time! Scenario: my dad and I watching it on HBO (or Showtime) back in either 1978 or 1979 (when I was 11 or 12). IIRC the plot (if that’s what you want to call it) had to do with two young women (mid-20ish) making a “house call,” if you will, and basically “forcing” an older man to engage in some rather kinky sexual acts with him. I don’t remember how long the movie was although I seem to recall that it wasn’t particularly long. Also, that my mother, who caught us watching it together more than once, was NOT happy about me seeing it (come to think of it she probably wasn’t all that thrilled that my dad was watching it, either. But then my mom always has been somewhat of a prude). I tried posting a question about it on IMDB once and I don’t think it’s ever been answered. If anybody on the SDMB saw a movie back then that they think is the one I attempted to describe and they can remember the name of it and are interested in letting me know what that name is it would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks! Was it “Death Game” 1977 with Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp? > **[Death Game (1977) ⭐ 5.6 | Horror, Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075921/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_15)** > > 1h 31m | R ---
**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/555 "2017-07-31T07:47:38Z")
I had this happen to me bad and I actually figured it out myself. All I could remember was a guy driving a brown first-generation Ford Bronco up to an office building downtown. I thought about it and thought about it and thought about it for such a long time. Somehow I figured out the guy driving was Ben Chaplin and that the movie was The Truth about Cats & Dogs. Man that was a relief. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/556 "2017-07-31T17:46:39Z")
> [@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… Wild guess: _ **La Femme Nikita** _? > **[La Femme Nikita (1990) ⭐ 7.3 | Action, Crime, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100263/)** > > 1h 57m | R It was remade in English with Bridget Fonda and is known in some countries as _ **The Assassin** _. ---
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> [@Dropo](#): > > Much of this description fits _Beyond the Time Barrier_ > > [Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053651/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Thanks, this could be it. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/558 "2017-08-02T18:59:54Z")
One of the first movies I can ever remember seeing in the theater was some sort of adventure where some sailors were looking for some mysterious place “where the whales go to die.” I was around 5-6 years old. I have a vivid memory of certain scenes, including the ship following whales, and the adventurers trying to outrun a lava flow. For the longest time I wasn’t sure if the movie existed or if it was some childhood dream or false memory. “Where the whales go to die.” Really? But as an adult, aided by the magic of the internet, one day I googled the mysterious phrase “where the whales go to die” and there it was–a Disney movie called **The Island at the Top of the World**. I Netflixed it. Good movie! ---
**Author:** ![Eyes\_of\_Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@Eyes\_of\_Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyes_of_Seven)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/559 "2017-08-05T01:04:48Z")
There is a horror / comedy movie that I can’t remember the name of. I only saw the first part of the movie, but I remember that the plot was just like Beetlejuice. A couple along with their daughter, move to a mansion in the country. The daughter hates it there and wants the family to move back to the city. The mansion is haunted by a man ghost that can only be seen or heard by the daughter. He is the girls only friend there, and they both come up with a plan to scare away the adults from the house, so that the family will move back to the city. There is a bloodstain where the man died in the house, and it keeps turning into colors like green and purple. Something very bad would happen if the family does not leave the house before the bloodstain on the floor turned brown. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/560 "2017-08-05T16:29:14Z")
> [@Eyes\_of\_Seven](#): > > There is a horror / comedy movie that I can’t remember the name of. I only saw the first part of the movie, but I remember that the plot was just like Beetlejuice. A couple along with their daughter, move to a mansion in the country. The daughter hates it there and wants the family to move back to the city. The mansion is haunted by a man ghost that can only be seen or heard by the daughter. He is the girls only friend there, and they both come up with a plan to scare away the adults from the house, so that the family will move back to the city. There is a bloodstain where the man died in the house, and it keeps turning into colors like green and purple. Something very bad would happen if the family does not leave the house before the bloodstain on the floor turned brown. Is this Beetlejuice? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/561 "2017-08-05T16:42:21Z")
> [@Eyes\_of\_Seven](#): > > There is a horror / comedy movie that I can’t remember the name of. I only saw the first part of the movie, but I remember that the plot was just like Beetlejuice. A couple along with their daughter, move to a mansion in the country. The daughter hates it there and wants the family to move back to the city. The mansion is haunted by a man ghost that can only be seen or heard by the daughter. He is the girls only friend there, and they both come up with a plan to scare away the adults from the house, so that the family will move back to the city. There is a bloodstain where the man died in the house, and it keeps turning into colors like green and purple. Something very bad would happen if the family does not leave the house before the bloodstain on the floor turned brown. It sounds like it might be some adaptation of [The Canterville Ghost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterville_Ghost#Adaptations). ---
**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:** [August 5, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/562 "2017-08-05T16:56:15Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Might it be [Thief of Bagdad (1940)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033152/?ref_=nv_sr_4)? No, that’s a good suggestion, but the “Kali” scene in ToB is quite a bit different in details from what I remember. [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=27) [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=29)