# Forgotten movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 2, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476 "2024-01-02T02:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/101 "2024-01-03T05:00:15Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I don’t know how forgotten it may be, but I will always watch **The Oxbow Incident** if it’s on. A very noir western with Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Harry Morgan and an actress named Jane Darwell (Ma Joad in Grapes of Wrath). We watched it in high school as part of our Literature course as an example of the western genre. It’s a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/102 "2024-01-03T05:03:54Z")
Does anyone else remember _The Coca-Cola Kid?_ It’s about a Coca-Cola marketer who goes to Australia to a little town where everyone drinks the local brew and not Coca-Cola. It came out in 1985 and I have no idea why I saw that movie as a nine-year-old kid. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/103 "2024-01-03T05:07:22Z")
Horse racing fans might remember **Phar Lap** ; others, perhaps not so much. It a racehorse biography—think _Seabiscuit_ or _Secretariat_—about a champion Australian racehorse whose racing career went from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. The movie was released in 1983, and seems to have been mostly forgotten now. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/104 "2024-01-03T05:15:46Z")
Wow, I missed that — cool. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/105 "2024-01-03T05:35:39Z")
Nearly every Christmas season, I remember a movie that the local rerun station played sometime in that time frame. > **[Gay Purr-ee (1962)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057093/mediaviewer/rm588256000/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)** > > Judy Garland in Gay Purr-ee (1962) I will periodically sing [Bubbles! Bubbles! Billions and billions of bubbles!](https://youtu.be/CQeOuZw_FTo?feature=shared) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/106 "2024-01-03T06:31:09Z")
My favorite movie! The first time I saw it, I was working at a pizza place, and we’d had The Evening From Hell, but I decided to catch the late show anyway. I arrived as the early show was getting out, and EVERYBODY was absolutely raving about the movie. I’ve never had an experience like that before or since. And they were right! It may not be as well known on this side of the pond because it’s Danish. I have also read the short story that inspired this movie. The movie followed it fairly well, except that in the story, Babette was elderly, and in the movie, she was middle-aged (although that might have counted as elderly in the 1880s, when the movie was set). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/107 "2024-01-03T07:00:13Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Which movie? > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > [Uptown Saturday Night](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij3LKTjpmd8&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesClassicTrailers) was a movie that was shown at the summer camp I went to. Yearly for like 6 years in the late 70s and early 80s. That one ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/108 "2024-01-03T07:18:22Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > One vote for [_Juggernaut_ (1974)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggernaut_(1974_film)). Disagree. Unforgettable. When the dude steps on the ping-pong ball and sheepishly tosses it back on the table… Burned into my brain till the day I die! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/109 "2024-01-03T07:21:06Z")
Here’s one I remember from my partyin’ teen years, early '80s & the beginning of MTV (used 2b ALL music, ALL the time, kids! ) “Tapeheads” starring John Cusack and Tim Robbins. Totally killer satire on the music biz then, the $$, empty headed “stars”, etc. Also, produced by Mike Nesmith of The Monkees AND somehow 4free on Y\*\*Tube for the past 7years. Funny as hell, checkitout, you will NOT regret it > **[Tapeheads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapeheads)** > > Tapeheads is a 1988 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman and starring John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Sam Moore and Junior Walker. The film was produced by Michael Nesmith, who briefly appears as a bottled water delivery man. > After losing their jobs as security guards, best friends Ivan (John Cusack) and Josh (Tim Robbins) start a music video production company called "Video Aces". When they meet their childhood heroes, 1970s soul duo Swanky Modes (Sam Moore and Junior Walker), Ivan and Josh concoct a... ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/110 "2024-01-03T07:40:43Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Two I think worth mentioning: First is _ **The Gods Must be Crazy** _ from 1980 (forget the sequels), which is rather hard to define but I seldom have laughed as hard at any movie while also being near tears for several scenes. Don’t think it’s played much anywhere these days, but if you have the chance… A friend of mine at the time owned a Land Rover, and his dad owned two… As much as you may have laughed at that movie, they laughed more. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/111 "2024-01-03T08:32:30Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > _ **Chocolat** _, set in a French town when a woman opens a Chocolate shop in a small French town and it’s effects on the people there. It gets mentioned because Johnny Depp has a (small) role in it, but it’s just a beautiful film that is almost never played or seen on TV. A girlfriend gave me this on DVD as a Christmas present because she knew I adore Juliette Binoche. Juliette blew me away (so to speak) when I saw her in _ **Damage** _ opposite Jeremy Irons. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/112 "2024-01-03T10:47:21Z")
I just finished watching _ **Blackula** _, a true '70s classic! ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/113 "2024-01-03T11:24:28Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > You might be remembering _Lassiter_, another early 80s Tom Selleck film in which we got to see Jane Seymour’s bare bottom. I’m sure you are correct! Lassiter is pretty forgotten too! ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/114 "2024-01-03T12:05:09Z")
That was a peculiar movie. I only saw it once back in the 80s, but I still find myself humming hat stupid song every once in a while. _Something something where there’s no Coca-Cola?_ _Life by the throat when you’re drinking Coke._ ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/115 "2024-01-03T12:31:26Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > The early Terry Gilliam film Jabberwocky, starring Michael Plain I remember his sister, Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/116 "2024-01-03T12:55:57Z")
I haven’t seen the **Flim Flam Man** for a couple of decades. It’s funny how details like this can escape you. I’m sure you’re right about the make up. It seems like a detail of this nature, though, is just the type of thing that would jump out at a person like me who’s fascinated by movie production concerns, yet I have no recollection of that being the case. Now I definitely have to track this movie down. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/117 "2024-01-03T13:11:07Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > If you can name the star of … _ **In Search of the Castaways** _, I’ll buy you a lobster dinner at Scott’s the next time we’re both in London. Maurice Chevalier (beside Hayley Mills). I thought that Jules Verne + Walt Disney was a match made in heaven, but as far as I know, Disney only adapted two of Verne’s novels – tyhis and **20,000 Leagues**. They should have done more of them, but the closest they came was the Verne-esque **Island on Top of the World.**. Maybe they were discouraged by the poor box office performance of _Castaways_ (which, I admit, appears to have mostly disappeared, unlike 20,000 Leagues, which has had a lot of video releases). There was a popular Russian adaptation in 1936 (and a remake, using the same very popular music, in 1986, fifty years later), but you won’t see it in the US. I suspect thsat the Disney folks might have helped keep it in obscurity here, like the 1940 RKO adaptation of _Swiss Family Robinson_ that they purchased the rights to, ostensibly to keep it from competing with their own version. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/118 "2024-01-03T13:44:30Z")
**Zulu** , Michael Caine’s first major role. The story of the Rourke’s Drift battle between a small British garrison and the entire Zulu nation. Caine got the role despite the director saying that it was the worst audition for a part he had ever seen, but that they were in a time crunch. Caine had to hide his Cockney accent to play a British officer. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/119 "2024-01-03T14:07:25Z")
I’ve seen Jabberwocky and Zulu quite often in TV broadcasting, but there are plenty of other movies in this thread I haven’t, and some I want to see now. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476/120 "2024-01-03T15:24:20Z")
> [@2\_More\_Bits](#): > > High Road to China: early 80s film with Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong. (I do believe I got to see Ms Armstrong’s bare bottom.) > [@mbh](#): > > _Lassiter_, another early 80s Tom Selleck film in which we got to see Jane Seymour’s bare bottom. In Lassiter, you get to see Selleck’s bare bottom, too. For those that celebrate. 🙂 I own High Road to China (a film made as sort of an appeasement because Selleck missed out on Raiders, and to cash in on the thirties period movie revival) but Lassiter is just too darned expensive on DVD for a fair to middlin’ movie. Someday I’ll find it cheap. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I learned of this one by reading that it was the basis for _Enemy Mine_. And the UFO episode “Survival”. > [@Dropo](#): > > Way more original, imaginative and entertaining than the same year’s _Star Wars_ It may be a good movie, but let’s not get carried away! If it was more entertaining than Star Wars, it wouldn’t be forgotten. > [@Odesio](#): > > Does anyone else remember _The Coca-Cola Kid?_ I wanted to put it in the WTF were they thinking movies, just for the last title card. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476.md?page=7)