I have a pretty distinct memory of seeing this as a kid (probably early 80s). In the scene, a group of people are hiding (probably from Nazis). A baby starts crying. One of the men (I think?) takes the baby to “comfort” it. When the danger has passed, it is revealed he has smothered the baby to save the group.
An exhaustive Google search has revealed only confusion and contradiction. Help me, SDMB! You’re my only hope!
It is from “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen”, the final episode of MASH. Scene readily available on Youtube.
IIRC, in the Hawkeye’s flashback it’s a chicken that is making noise, and the woman who quieted it did so by smothering it. But it’s later revealed that it was actually a baby and the mother killed her own baby to save everyone on the bus.
There is such a story about people fleeing Nazis. I don’t know of any movie or TV version of this.
It’s referenced on 30 Rockwhen Alan Alda was a guest star.
In this movie, Henry Silva accidentally smothers a woman’s baby while hiding from the Nazis in a graveyard:
I saw this in the cinema when it first came out (I was nine at the time), and that scene really disturbed me. Perhaps you saw it later on TV.
If the film had Rosanna Arquette in it, it may have been a made for television movie, The Wall (1982).The Wall (TV Movie 1982) - IMDb The baby was smothered while under the sewers of Warsaw when they finally escaped.
ABC did an Anne Frank mini-series back in the mid-to-late 90s/early-to-mid 2005 and a scene like this was in it verbatim.
It’s so weird because I was JUST thinking about this scene in the last, maybe, week or so? Craaaazy.
Holy fuck; would it have killed you to write the name of the movie: The Secret Invasion?
Are you paid per click to IMDB or something?
Also, you could have mentioned that it’s a Roger Corman flick from 1964; details like that can help people trying to remember stuff.
Are you too lazy to click on a link?
Jeez, this is practically a TV trope. I didn’t know this was so common. I’m pretty sure it was a Holocaust film or miniseries. You guys are (as always) super helpful!
That scene in The Secret Invasion really made an impression upon my sister and me when we were younger. Whenever we’d catch Henry Silva in another role later (and he was quite prolific) we’d exclaim “It’s Babykiller”!
Maybe he doesn’t know how links work and was angry at having to type** henry silva nazis** into Google?
FWIW, a similar story, but with Indians rather than Nazis, is related in Quigley Down Under.
Probably doesn’t know how to copy things either.
There was a time I would often reference this scene in my…humor (because anne frank jokes are hilarious!:p)…but everyone kept telling me I was confusing the scene with something non anne frank related. I’m glad I wasn’t and it was they who were stupid, and not just my jokes.
No, but clearly you are too lazy to just answer a question, since you didn’t even give the name of the movie you were linking to.
And without that, what good was your post except to provide IMDB with a click-through?
Let’s stop the sniping at each other (everybody) and get back to the topic at hand, please.