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.
**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.
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!”
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.
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.
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.
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 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.)
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.
