# Does anyone remember this movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 4, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-movie/657497 "2013-05-04T21:27:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-movie/657497/1 "2013-05-04T21:27:04Z")
For some reason this film has popped into my mind and it’s bugging me that I can’t remember details or who was in it. It was a drama, and iirc a TV movie made in the '70s. A man (college professor, I think) decides to take up a new identity and pass himself off as a regular joe. He gets a job in construction and falls for a waitress at a diner. Eventually she learns the truth and is angry and hurt that he lied about who he was. At some point one of his co-workers is buried in a collapsed trench they’re digging and the main character performs cpr after they un-bury the guy. I don’t recall how the film ended. Help me, straight dope, you’re my only hope. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-movie/657497/2 "2013-05-04T21:36:35Z")
There was a movie with the dad from the Waltons, who abandoned his high(er) class life, and took up with a gum-snapping waitress. It sounds like a comedy, but I don’t think it was. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-movie/657497/3 "2013-05-04T21:39:10Z")
[The Secret Life of John Chapman](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075179/) ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-movie/657497/4 "2013-05-04T21:43:28Z")
Hey, it looks like that’s it! Thanks guys!