I’m pulling out all the stops on this one. The only reason I’m even trying is that 10 years ago TPWombat identified a British horror movie. Psychomania, for me from a very vague description. Thanks again for that TPWombat!
OK, here goes. I was about 5 or 6. 40+ years ago. TV is on at my grandma’s house. On the screen. best as I can recall, a group of nuns is leading kiddies over a mountain pass, running from something. Bridge is out. Selfless, shirtless black man goes under and holds broken bridge up as nuns and kiddies scurry across, leaving himself behind and facing certain death. This left a huge impression on me.
See, now, I have always thought this scene was from Black Narcissus. Lands out this is not true, as I finally got around to watching it. What movie is it from? I must know. Thanking you, teeming millions.
I took the liberty of posting your message on the IMDB board, and one of the experts posited that your movie might be Conspiracy of Hearts (1960). I couldn’t find any info on a black guy holding up the bridge, but nuns are smuggling chirren out of a WWII prison camp.
There don’t appear to be any black actors credited for Conspiracy of Hearts. It’s possible that with the skimpy credit rules of the era, he was a (then?) bit player, but the role sounds significant enough to warrant a named credit.
It’s available from Amazon, even on instant video, though, so…
Spencer Tracy as a priest gets a group of cons to help him rescue a group of nuns and leper orphans from an island where the Volcano was going to blow.
The convict that did hold the bridge pole was Bernie Hamilton who passed away 4 years ago.
Did not even look at that thread as there were no links to that, that movie also affected me when I saw it on TV in the old country when it was shown dubbed to Spanish as “El Diablo a las 4”