Oh wow! It wasn’t my question, but I’ve been trying to remember that one for a long time, too. I used to watch TCBSCFF every Saturday. There was one other one I was also trying to find, about a Catholic boy and a Jewish girl that go to each other’s church. Finally found it as Hand in Hand. Now I can go try and find a copy of Skinny and Fatty. Somewhere…
I’ll agree with this. The skinny kid was named “Komatsu” IIRC, and every time I see a Komatsu tractor/dozer, etc… I think of the movie.
Mid-1970s, a color film on TV (probably a feature film from c. 1970, but perhaps a made-for-TV film). The only scenes I remember was a man in a WW2-era sailor suit – Navy, I suppose --jumping off a pier to save someone from drowning (a child, perhaps?), and a subsequent scene where he (?) is under some clear plastic sheet in a hospital, which my parents explained had to do with his recovery from near-drowning.
(BTW, just recently I figure out what a different memory from around the same time was, of a man being punched so hard he fell through three floors and onto some clickety-cola kitty machinery – turns out it was “The Odessa File,” with Jon Voight, and the machine was a printing press.)
(That was “clickety-clackety machinery,” until mangled by auto-correct.)
Good to know that there’s two of us at least who remember this movie. (And I guess I was wrong on Happy’s film, but I’m glad he got the correct answer.)
As an aside, an old friend was a private pilot. I flew many times with him in his Cessna 172. He’d insist that I follow him during his pre-flight checkout: fuel in wing tanks, trim tabs set, flaps responding, rudder working, and so on. He’d also have a look at the engine–but that was one thing I didn’t want to go near. Because it was next to the propellor, and I’d seen Family Flight.
That puppet show Kukla, Fran and Ollie had these filmed live-action vignettes, and one of them stuck with me. I was actually going to start a Cafe Society thread of its own, but here it is.
Its a typical fairy tale – a King’s prized magic item of some sort is stolen by an evil Giant who rides a dragon, the King’s two sons try to get it back, and fail to make it past the guard monster, maybe even losing a horse (was the magic item a prized horse?) and having to ride back together on a broken down horse, then the King’s Daughter gets it away from the evil Giant, with the help of a good Witch, who stupefies the Guard monster with Magic toadstools.
That’s the story, and that’s the voice over description, but its not animated or a costume drama, and there’s no actor’s dialog. As the above story is narrated, the actors appear on the streets of some contemporary city. The king is an ordinary dad, likewise the sons and daughter are ordinary pre-teens in street clothes. The giant is just a big burly man, who rides a motorcycle and has stolen a prized bicycle, leaving them with just a broken down one. The Good witch is just a nice old lady, who feeds a basket of home-baked muffins to a guard dog so the girl can achieve her goals.
I gotta know who came up with this, and what else have they come up with, and what have I missed from other episodes of Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
That is definitely it. As a man of girth who was a boy of girth, I was a faithful watcher of that movie.
I was going to post in this thread about a movie I remembered every now and then but had no clue as to what it was. All I could remember was that it was in the 60’s, black and white IIRC, and there were 3 kids being chased by some bad guys. It was an urban setting but I didn’t know what city (still don’t), and that I thought they had stayed with their grandmother for a bit. The only real scene I could remember was a creepy man taking them someplace, them walking down the sidewalk. Since I couldn’t remember anything else about the movie I had no clue as to why I got this unsettling feeling every time I thought about the movie. I remember liking the oldest girl but could never think of who she was or even picture her.
All through the years, whenever I’d think about the film I could have sworn that the man was John Forsythe, but years ago I looked through his filmography and there was nothing there that sounded like the film. Before I posted I wanted to double-check Forsythe’s film filmography and there was still nothing there. Then I decided to take a quick look at his TV work, thinking, well, maybe it was a TV show, though I didn’t think so. But I found it! It wasn’t a TV show though, it was a made-for-TV movie. In fact, as I just found out, it was the VERY FIRST made-for-TV movie!
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And no wonder I liked the girl. It was Pamela Franklin! (here are some photos since there aren’t any on her IMDB page, and a video made with scenes from The Innocents with Deborah Kerr, Franklin’s first movie). I used to see her on television a LOT in the 60’s and especially 70’s, but she didn’t do near enough movies. Here’s a scene of her holding her own opposite Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
So even though I don’t need anyone’s help now, and I can’t help anyone else (so far) I just wanted to say thanks to Zeldar for prompting my finding the name of this movie that’s been on my mind for so many years.
It’s never been released on VHS or DVD, dammit.
The Stuff, maybe
This was a color movie and the thing I remember most was a scene in a barn were a kid jumps off the loft into a bail of hay shouting “I’m king of the mountain!” and lands on a buried pitchfork. Also, in another scene, a different young boy tries to steal a ring off of his dead twin’s corpse’s finger during a wake in a house.
If I may do a twofer-- The little boy from Family Affair falls off a mountain and becomes an angel.
When did it come out?
The film / show had a very obviously “70s sci-fi” feel to it - lots of sterile, white sets and costumes. Room-sized computers with random blinking lights, etc. And bad, bad, bad special effects and monster costumes (at least by today’s standards).
Who was in it?
Our Hero was a strapping 70s type leading man, someone like Kier Dullea, or maybe it could’ve been Martin Balsam.
What plot if any do you remember?
Definitely a sci-fi flick or show set in the future. Some type of outpost in deep space (either a spaceship or space station) with an exhausted home-sick crew. These big shambling mound, tentacly aliens (think “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters” with no faces, except perhaps a single eye) invade the station. The aliens have psionic abilities and can manipulate the human crew members by causing them to have “Manchurian Candidate” type hallucinations - the humans carry out their malevolent commands because they think they are performing routine or pleasurable activities. For example, one hypnotized crew member carries a dangerous radioactive warhead around the station because he is being made to think that he is on a beach with a woman (his wife or girl friend) in his arms. We see flash cuts of his fantasy of carrying his wife in his arms in between shots of the “reality” in which he is really cradling a warhead and smiling.
I only remember the very end of the movie - the hypnotized crewman is taking the warhead to some very 70s-scifi computer room. (All the humans wear spacesuits for some reason.) If the aliens can get their hypnotized slaves to somehow interface the warhead with the computer (basically stick it in a slot), then the base will be flooded with radiation - good for the invading aliens, bad for the humans. Our hero rushes to the rescue in the nick of time and prevents the disaster. The shambling mound aliens basically stand around and watch Our Hero defeat the hypnotized crew-men.
When the fight is over, the aliens seem more baffled than angry. They ask Our Hero why he opposed them. They say that once they had established themselves there, they would have gratefully made all the humans have constant non-stop hallucinations based on their favorite, most cherished memories. Sure the humans would all be their menial slaves, but they would be HAPPY. The aliens genuinely ask wouldn’t it be preferable to live in a world of your greatest fantasies rather than the ugly, sterile reality you inhabit?
NO! Our Hero responds. Reality, no matter how unpleasant, is always better than fantasy. The aliens then simply fade away (and return to their home dimension?) Credits roll.
What was special to you about it?
The aliens! I’ve no doubt that if I managed to track this movie down, the reality would not match up to my cherished memory, but there was something distinctly Lovecraftian about them - their totally non-human appearance, and how they seemed to originate from another reality entirely.
**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.
The Other (possibly the original “evil twins” movie)!
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!
Yes! What kind of family movie is that? Here, impressionable 5 year old, watch the cute little boy from that other TV show you like fall off a mountain and die! Isn’t this a classic heartwarmer?
With Herman Munster as the guardian angel. No wonder the kid fell to his bloody death.
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).
I have another one. I only remember the barest minimum:
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.
Reminiscent of The Night They Took Miss Beauftiful (1977). 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.
A movie I saw on UK TV circa 1975.
Two or three men on US Death Row. I think the charge was treason/ espionage. One kept playing chess all the time, while holding long conversations with his opponents. Appeals eventually fail, and they are executed. I think the implication was that they were innocent.
I was very young, and I think a lot of it went over my head.