I feel like I’ve seen this as well.
Man, HBO used to show some great filler.
When did it come out? I think in the early 1990s, when I was in late middle school or early high school. I think it was a CBS TV movie. (Remember those?)
Who was in it? I don’t know
What plot if any do you remember? Three hijackers take over an airplane. The passengers stage a revolt. At the end, they show the legs of the hijackers after they’ve been hanged using seat belts.
What was special to you about it? The awesome way that justice was served
Hostage Flight?
That was it!
No…that wasn’t it. It was more along the lines of a disney family movie like “The Cat From Outer Space” (I’m so ashamed to have just mentioned that movie)
I think I remember something about this movie:
The space man picks up a grenade about to blow, and merely cups his hands around it, containing the explosion.
A scene starts with a neighborhood boy proudly telling spaceman he managed to go a whole year without crying…ends with the boy sobbing in spaceman’s arms.
At the end of the movie, spaceman’s human contacts help secure him a legal identity, including social security #, and sinking his spaceship at the bottom of a lake.
Earthbound. I remember seeing this too, most likely on TV. Here’s the poster.
Wow! I do believe this is it. Not even a hit on youtube. And it was starring Burl Ives… (shudder)
That must be it. That was the first Children’s Film Festival film I saw, and the only one I remember clearly. I have a vague memory of one from Canada about a young boy who was a lumberjack, not sure if it was part of that series.
Ok, I need help. Just found this site when searching for this movie. It must have been late 80’s early 90’s. All i remember is a mars-like land…a guy who falls into sand that is quicksand and these turtle-like animals that can kill. The guy realizes that the turtle shells are great for shelter and he makes a shelter out of them.
Sorry for the little details. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
I think that’s Enemy Mine, with Louis Gossett Jr and Dennis Quaid.
There was a WWII war movie, probably came out in the mid/late 60’s, about a U.S. Navy cargo ship in the Pacific Theater with a good (if unpopular) commander and a glum crew. He does everything he can to “whip them into shape,” but to little avail. So he orders them to build him a small sailboat, and succeeds in bringing the crew together, if only in their hatred of him.
They wind up with a “real mission,” delivering supplies in support of an island invasion. where their ship gets pretty shot up; the crew is working heroically to save their vessel, but keep getting strafed by the Japanese fighters and generally shot up pretty bad, so the captain actually launches his sailboat and sails around his ship to draw enemy fire. The captain, IIRC, dies, but the crew saves the ship.
Before anyone replies and says, “You must be thinking of and/or misremembering Mr. Roberts!” I assure you it is not Mr. Roberts. I have seen, and have a copy of, the Fonda/Cagney/Lemmon version of Mr. Roberts, and know that movie fairly well. The one I refer to above is not Mr. Roberts.
I think there’s a whole generation of people (me included back in the early 90s) where one of the first things they did when they discovered the Internet was find the title of this movie. Everyone who grew up in the 70s remembered the story and ending but no one remembered the title.
Rik Mayall from The Young Ones in a B/W short film made (I assume) in the 80s. I cant remember anything else. I saw it in 1991. I believe it may have been on MTV. Can’t seem to be able to find anything about it anywhere.
Maybe this one, also with Jack Lemmon? 
I may be misremembering stuff. I’ve seen it twice, sometime in late 70’s, once again in 1995, in Germany of all places, with dubbed voices and no ending credits to give away anything important like “name of movie,” or “starring” to clue me in.
But “Wackiest Ship In The Army” ain’t it; I’d have recognized Jack Lemmon, and done an IMDB search against his credits to find it.
Thanks, though; I may give “Wackiest…” a gander.
That was probably a “Comic Strip” movie, and the only black and white one I have found that fits the time and has Rik in it is The Beat Generation.
How 'bout Ensign Pulver?
BTW, here’s another unknown title:
Late 60s-early 70s film quality.
Tough guy displays his prowess by sticking two fingers in a shot glass and shattering the glass by “scissor-kicking” his fingers apart.
The Glass Bottom Boat? I think it starred Doris Day. 1964 maybe.
Or Robinson Caruso?
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Nine and a Half Weeks?
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