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Originally Posted by Nancie View Post
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.
Yeah that sounds a lot like the Alan Arkin 1969 film “Popi”.
The synopsis: Abraham (Alan Arkin) is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day he notices that Cubans who escape are lionized and given exceptional benefits. He thinks up a plot to have his sons washed ashore as cuban immigrants who will be adopted by rich anglos.
I vaguely remember seeing this film (I was 8 yrs old) at the Drive In. I probably didn’t stay up for the whole film as those days Drive In’s were great for parents to see films while their kids fell asleep in the back seat.
I’m trying to remember this film my father showed to me that I assume was from the mid-to late 80s (if I recall, the film had a somewhat Spaceballs look to it). In one scene, this man enters a tribe and obtains a weapon, walks to a castle to get his wife, capture by an alien king or something (because they got on that planet somehow in the beginning of the film- I forgot how) and during the trip, he encounters some soldiers. He deployes the weapon, and the soldiers, fascinated by it, touches it and vanishes. Because the soldiers are idiots (and don’t know when to not touch it after seeing 10 men die from it), they fall one by one, and the man gets to a castle. What I remember is that this alien dictator or king or something has capture his wife and in preparation for a wedding, kisses the wife in the world’s weirdest kiss. Then there’s this next scene where the man enters the wedding in a Trojan Horse, and the next thing I remember (since I forgot much of the structure anyways), the ending of the movie, the family drives back to earth, flying through the highway like an airplane in their station-wagon or their car or something.
That’s all I remember. Anyone can help me out with that?
Magic in the Water with Mark Harmon and a very young Joshua Jackson? (Sorry I don’t know how to do links) I saw this a few years ago (on Ion or thistv or something like that) on a sick day and found it charming.
Oops, I skimmed right over the 1970s reference. It sounds like exactly the same film. I wonder if Magic in the Water was (perhaps unconsciously) copied from your film.
The Thrill of it All! With Doris Day and James Garner.
There is one movie/show I’ve wondered about since I was little, but I only have one scene. The adults were watching it while the kids were playing in other rooms, and I remember sneaking peeks of what I remember as a spooky, eerie, show. The only scene I remember is a nightmarish feeling bit that included a flood of feathers falling down a narrow (attic?) stairway. Would have been mid 80s maybe.
Made me think of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? but that’s obviously too early, so I went looking, and there was a remake in 1990. Scene is at about 1:04:20
I saw this silent b&w movie on tv around 1972. Very ancient movie. Might have been from the 1920’s or even the 1910’s
I think it was an European production on the Nibelungs or other scandinavian tales with viking like characters.
The scene which stuck on my head is one where I think a witch comands either the moon or an animal (a dragón? A wolf? ) to swallow the sun. After several scenes the sun is liberated b y the same moon or animal.
This scene is shown in silouette fashion almost like a cartoon.
I buoght some vhs with a movie very much like it, it was German, silent and b&w but it Was not the one I saw in the 70’s. I think the movie might have been swedish or norweyan, Nordic, in one word.
If anyone can help, Thanks!!
Thank you NDP, I saw this movie on TV at the US while I was living there (I’m from Guatemala) and it made a big impression on me. Yes, the version of the Nibelungs that I have on VHS is the one by Fritz Lang and it is a really beautiful movie (two parts) but even if I have been looking for the scene I described carefully, it never came on… I will try to follow the leads you described on your responce and I thank you for taking your time answering me
Could it be Tex? It was just the two kids living alone, although they weren´t on the run. The principle of the school asks to see the parents after Tex and Johnny Collins (played by a very young Emilio Estevez) replace the typewriting class´s typewriter ribbons with toy gun caps.
I remember watching one film approximately 35 years ago about prohibition era gangsters, except that all of the actors were kids (portraying adult characters) and their guns fired creme filled pastries instead of bullets.
Also, does the phrase “king of the flots” ring a bell for anyone?
As already noted, the first is Operation Petticoat, which has everything you describe (i.e., there was only one movie, not two). They weren’t trying to fool the Germans; IIRC, they were sending a message to a US ship that had mistaken them for a Japanese submarine.
I believe the other two scenes are also from one movie, Captains of the Clouds. IIRC, Cagney and Alan Hale Sr are former test pilots who ferry bombers across the Atlantic for the RCAF.
In the summer of 1967, I saw a movie on late-night TV that was obviously a European import. I believe it was Swedish with English dubbing. It was about a zany bunch of soldiers dressed in what looked like WWII British uniforms, but with Swedish (I think) flags sewn on their shoulders (or maybe the flags were UN instead of Swedish).
The only scene I remember takes place when they go on leave in the country: A horny soldier spies a really stacked half-nude babe striking poses at the end of a pier over a forested lake. He lets out a whoop and goes clumping down the length of the pier to get his jollies. He reaches the girl and spins her around, but her face is train-stopping ugly. Hilarity ensues as he backs off in shock and falls into the lake.
