# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/61 "2014-01-05T19:56:29Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I made a topic about this one before and nobody knew it…but here goes anyway: > > This was a movie. A horror movie. It was sort of like an anthology horror movie, because it had 2 or 3 separate stories told in it. > > Now **if I remember correctly** (as in, I THINK these are all a part of the same movie, but\* I could be wrong and they could all be three different movies\*) here were some scenes from the movie: > > One of the stories (the first one, I think) was about this guy who sneaked into a woman’s house without her knowledge. And as she was going from room to room, you could actually see the guy behind her, moving around and trying to stay hidden. Like she’d go into the bathroom and he’d come out of the closet and stuff like that. > I don’t remember how it began or how it ended, but I remember that scene specifically. > Then there was a story about someone driving in a car and they don’t stop in time and hit the back of another vehicle (a truck, I think)…and the exhaust pipe is stuck in there with the person (it’s, like, right in their face, through the busted window) and they (for some reason) can’t get out of the car. So they choke to death that way, on the fumes. > > The last story featured a guy with long hair and a beard and he was a bit of an asshole (for some reason I don’t remember) and he lived (I think) in a cabin in the woods or something like that. > At the end, he went to take a shower and the shower turned cold on him (freezing, actually) and you can hear him scream something like “Hey, what happened to the hot water?” and he’s not able to get the door open, so the water freezes him…and only then does the door open, with his frozen corpse falling out of the shower. > Again, I THINK all of these are part of the same movie, although I’m not certain. I’ve been trying to remember this movie for years, so if anyone can help, I’d be grateful. I don’t remember much about it other than those three scenes (which I’m not even sure are from the same movie)…I don’t even remember anyone who was in it. All I know is I’ve put this on 3 different message boards in the past and nobody has ever recognized these scenes. > ETA: I saw this movie when I was about 8-10 years old, so it MUST be have at least been out before 1988-1990 (or around that time). Could they be episodes of Freddy’s Nightmares? That ran on NBC on Saturday night in that timeframe. They did short episodes like that, all crammed into an hour. One I remember quite clearly was some guy who worked the drive thru, and weird stuff happened, and it ended with a car coming to the window - but it was driven by a corpse! Mine is maybe a TV movie, but I think I saw it on HBO. Seven-ish people are trying out a nuclear bomb shelter, and the people on the surface fake a nuclear attack while they’re down there. Don’t really remember the point, but I remember two things quite clearly - it must have been subtitled, since the attack announcement on the shelter TVs read “Achtung!” and one line - they were discussing how the shelter was equipped, and someone mentions they have included seven body bags. One of the leads says something like “How is the last person supposed to zip themselves in their bag?” ---
**Author:** ![Attila\_the\_Nun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Attila\_the\_Nun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attila_the_Nun)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/62 "2014-01-05T20:13:11Z")
I think I saw this movie on television around 2000. It probably came out some time before then. I only caught the beginning of it. What I definitely remember is there was a scene in which the housekeeper is dead on the kitchen floor, blood pooling around her. What I think I remember (I am not sure if this actually happened) is there was a new family who moved to the house. One of them came back to find the dead housekeeper. I tried searching for the movie, and the only one which had any semblance to what I remembered is What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), which I have seen described as a dark comedy, and I remember the movie being described as one as well. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t sound quite right. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/63 "2014-01-05T20:13:17Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Reminiscent of [The Night They Took Miss Beauftiful (1977)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076458/combined). Except that it’s a biological or neurotoxic “bomb.” What is similar is that their is that the hero (Gary Collins) flies a chopper, and deliberately crashes it into the water, when one of the dumbass hostage-takers opens up the cannister (disguised as a cigar holder) containing the chemical. Victoria Principal plays an Israeli beauty contestant who is also a secret agent. Could be. I’ll have to track it down and see. My memory says it was older, but I could be wrong. It’s the best fit I have found. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/64 "2014-01-05T20:41:12Z")
Here’s one: I’m pretty sure I saw it on TV the summer I spent in Colorado with my dad, which would have been 1967. Don’t know if it was in color or not, and I think it was European, which means it would have been dubbed into English. It was about the antics a unit of peacetime soldiers in what looked like WWII British uniforms, but I’m pretty sure they were Swedish (maybe part of a UN contingent). The one scene I remember well was when they were at a mountain lake and saw a hot babe in a bathing suit standing at the end of a pier. One of the soldiers gives a whoop and takes off after her, clomping down the pier in his combat boots, and grabs her to give her a kiss. He spins her around, and her face is butt-ugly, so he falls backward off the pier in shock. Ring any bells? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/65 "2014-01-05T21:28:16Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > \*\*Any other clues you can think of? \*\* > I had for the longest time assumed this was an episode of Space: 1999. It has the look and feel of that show. But having looked at the wikipedia list of episodes for that show, I can’t find a description that matches it. It would be of the same time period of that show however. I described this to my husband, **Shoujin** , and he thinks it’s Space: 1999 as well, before I even got to this paragraph. He mentioned one hallucination with a guy who thinks he’s in a dune buggy being chased by a gorilla (?) but it’s really a fellow human in a spacesuit who’s after him. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/66 "2014-01-05T21:35:24Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > . . .I had for the longest time assumed this was an episode of Space: 1999. It has the look and feel of that show. . . . . Actually, this sounds like an amalgam of episodes [Dragon’s Domain](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Domain) and [Force of Life](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_of_Life). ---
**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:** [January 5, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/67 "2014-01-05T22:53:31Z")
> [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](#): > > **When did it come out?** > Probably 70s or 80s. Maybe even the 60s, but I don’t think it was that old. > > **Who was in it?** > I have no clue. > > **What plot if any do you remember?** > I think it was some sort of spy flick, maybe? The characters wore snazzy jumpsuits. I remember and man and a woman in a giant, actual maze, and I think the woman was at some sort of central control computer trying to help the man get through the obstacles in the maze. Ultimately, they end up escaping using a zip line. > > **What was special to you about it?** > It’s a movie with a giant maze. Also, I’m pretty sure it’s the first time I ever saw a zip line used. > > \*\*Any other clues you can think of? \*\* > No, I think that’s pretty much it. “Once upon a Spy”? Starring Ted Danson and Christopher Lee [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/D_Oqq5gYSDY/hqdefault.jpg "Mary Louise Weller Once upon a spy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Oqq5gYSDY) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/68 "2014-01-06T00:20:02Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > [The Other](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other) (possibly the original “evil twins” movie)! > [@Biggirl](#): > > Too late to edit my post. I do want to add what was special about these movies: They both scared the living hell out of me. The first movie it is easy to see why but that second one I believe as supposed to be a family movie but, to this day, all I really remember is that a child fell off a mountain and died. > > Holy cow, that was fast Strawhouse. I didn’t even see your answer because a second page started and I didn’t even notice. Thanks! It’s currently posted on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ub01F7_HxY). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/69 "2014-01-06T00:26:27Z")
Here’s mine. Back in the early eighties, HBO used to run short fillers between movies. Stuff like music videos or short animated films. I remember one of the animated films they showed was about a bunch a men wearing suits and top hats. They were running around a city in a panicked manner and the city was changing around them. Stone buildings turned into brick and then brick buildings turned into glass and steel. The implication was that the city was becoming more modern. I also remember there were a lot of shots of clocks. As far as I recall, the film had no dialogue. Anyone? ---
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> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Here’s mine. > > Back in the early eighties, HBO used to run short fillers between movies. Stuff like music videos or short animated films. > > I remember one of the animated films they showed was about a bunch a men wearing suits and top hats. They were running around a city in a panicked manner and the city was changing around them. Stone buildings turned into brick and then brick buildings turned into glass and steel. The implication was that the city was becoming more modern. I also remember there were a lot of shots of clocks. As far as I recall, the film had no dialogue. > > Anyone? A)Were you on acid? B)Was it Yellow Submarine? ---
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I’ll give these a shot: –a film that used to run all the time on the Discovery Channel in the late 80s, although it was from the early 70s. It was about a retarded teenager and how he lived his everyday life. It was a scripted movie, but many of the shots seemed out of a documentary. The only specific scene I remember was him trying to buy Carpenters and Jerry Reed albums at a record store. –a movie where they pan up a hotel or apartment building as they call out draft numbers (obviously it was set around 1970). –a clip from a spoof of forties B-movies where there was a “no necking” public announcement between the features. ---
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Hi Zeldar A friend has given me information about an old movie (or TV movie/TV episode) he is trying to find, that he saw as a child, and remembers little of. I want to help him find it, and solve the mystery. I will relay this information as best I can The movie was viewed by my friend in the early/mid 70’s. His view is that it was from that period, as opposed to the 50’s or 60’s. It was viewed on a b&w television, so it is uncertain if it was black & white or colour. Here is the story as my friend remembers it; A group of men are somwhere where it it is snowing outside (maybe north pole or antarctic station?) and one night there is a knock on the door and there are some people standing there, one of them, a woman. They are actually dead relatives of each of the men in the team. Somehow this is not regarded as too strange in my friend’s memory of the movie/TV show, and that the ghosts state that they know they are dead and talk openly about death, the dead and where they go. There is one black man who has no dead relatives present, as, he states, he was an orphan. He brandishes a machine gun with growing suspiscion of the visitors. At one point he tells them he was only ever close to one thing, a pet dog. the next time the visitors return, they have with him the black man’s pet dog, but he remains suspicious of them all. Later, one of the men in the team follows the ghosts when they leave, to see where they go. He returns dishevelled and shaken, stating that he saw the visitors ‘change’. This is all my friend remembers. He did not see this story to the finish. If anyone has any ideas to help identify this story, I would be much obliged. - JD ---
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Here’s one if anyone feels up to the challenge. **When did it come out?** - Not sure, I saw it only once on late night network TV sometime in the late 70s/early eighties. Assume a mid seventies production. **Who was in it?** - no clue **What plot if any do you remember?** - According to my memory, this was a horror anthology film with four or more separate stories. I THINK both of these stories come from the same film but no promises. One of the stories takes place on Halloween night. A group or young, similarly costumed children knock on a woman’s door and she invites them in. Once in the house they just stand there mutely without accepting the candy she offers or responding to anything she says. Eventually she get frustrated and yells at them to take off their masks. The kids faces are revealed to be monstrously bestial at which point they attack and kill the woman. The other story involves a well dressed businessman in a hurry and scorning a homeless person. Through some means I don’t recall, the businessman falls or is thrust into a small chamber underneath an elevator shaft in the basement of an office building. This is some kind of a modern day torture chamber where he his abused over a period of several days. I remember that one of the things his unseen captors do to him is that they force a series of long spikes to slowly emerge from the wall in order to painfully but non fatally skewer the businessman. After an undetermined amount of time, one of the walls slides up a few inches and a partially filled bottle of whiskey is rolled in for him to drink. After other unseen abuses, we see the businessman back on the street but this time as a homeless, hopeless alcoholic, scorned by the type of people he used to be. **What was special to you about it?** - I was young, on summer break from school and this was probably the first ‘scary’ movies I ever saw without parental supervision. ---
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> [@Joey\_P](#): > > A)Were you on acid? > B)Was it Yellow Submarine? No, and No. It was a short film not a feature film. And definitely not _Yellow Submarine_, a movie I knew well. ---
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This might be hopeless, but here goes: Seen in the 1960’s, on a b&w TV in New York City. It had the feel of a live action show, but definitely for kids It was a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, but then things get fuzzy - the hero finds his dad, long thought dead, up in the giant’s lair with amnesia. Upon seeing his son, the dad suddenly remembers that he’s supposed to be a dentist (!) There was also a lot of running around with a real live goose under their arms, and the giant chasing them. Strange, but I’ve been thinking about this movie for ages! Thanks, Wallet ---
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> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I googled ‘skinny fat japanese kid movie’ and, I shit you not, came back with “Skinny and Fatty” They synopses included the line "Quite popular in the United States due to repeated showings on The CBS Children’s Film Festival in the 1960s and 70s. " > So I’m guessing that’s it. I remember this being on CBS on my birthday, 7 January, which fell on a Sunday back around 1970. I especially remember the two boys getting into a fight with some bullies, one of whom said “Oh, protecting your fat friend, eh?” ---
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> [@Dr. Zeus](#): > > I think I saw this movie on television around 2000. It probably came out some time before then. I only caught the beginning of it. What I definitely remember is there was a scene in which the housekeeper is dead on the kitchen floor, blood pooling around her. What I think I remember (I am not sure if this actually happened) is there was a new family who moved to the house. One of them came back to find the dead housekeeper. > > I tried searching for the movie, and the only one which had any semblance to what I remembered is What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), which I have seen described as a dark comedy, and I remember the movie being described as one as well. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t sound quite right. Could it have been _ **Curdled** _? > **[Curdled (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curdled_(film))** > > Curdled is a 1996 black comedy crime film written and directed by Reb Braddock. The film stars Angela Jones as a Colombian immigrant who takes a crime scene cleanup job and discovers evidence about a local serial killer dubbed the "Blue Blood Killer" for his targeting of socialites. The film is a remake of a 1991 short film of the same name, which was also directed by Braddock and starred Jones. > Gabriela is a Colombian immigrant living in Miami who has been fascinated with violent death ever ... ---
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> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I think I’ve very possibly mixed up a couple of the details by now, but mine is a western that I remember seeing at a drive in. I think it was 1962 or so. > > The memory that sticks out is the young boy in the movie. He was a pretty central character, but that’s all I recall. I developed a huge crush on him. He was dark haired and probably had olive toned skin. I was about six years old and thought he was beautiful. > > I keep thinking he played the part of Hadji in the jonny quest show, but can’t find anything that isn’t animated, so I have no idea what the movie actually was. Maybe this film? Mineo would have been 18 when it was released. > **[Tonka (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonka_(film))** > > Tonka is a 1958 American Western film directed by Lewis R. Foster and starring Sal Mineo as a Sioux who survived the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The film is based on the book Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse by David Appel, and depicts the fictional story of the Indian and US Cavalry owners of the horse of the title. > It was filmed in Bend, Oregon, and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, a division of Walt Disney Productions. > White Bull, a young Sioux, captures a wild st... ---
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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > 60s or 70s, live action, had the feel of a made for TV, or a “B” movie. Someone was making their own nuclear weapon, in their basement I believe. The heroes finally tracked it down, and could not disarm it. One of the heroes, who had received a lethal dose of radiation, volunteered to fly the bomb out over the ocean with a helicopter. It detonated over the water. The end. > > Or at least, that’s how I remember it. Sounds almost exactly like an episode of _ **24** _, except the bomb there exploded over the desert, not the ocean. ---
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> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I remember one of the animated films they showed was about a bunch a men wearing suits and top hats. They were running around a city in a panicked manner and the city was changing around them. Stone buildings turned into brick and then brick buildings turned into glass and steel. The implication was that the city was becoming more modern. I also remember there were a lot of shots of clocks. As far as I recall, the film had no dialogue. Edifice? https://www.youtube.com/embed/3nHOWkfGFsk?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Not quite as you describe, but certainly the city becoming more advanced. [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=3) [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=5)