# Help me remember the title to a (old) movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475 "2010-04-09T01:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/1 "2010-04-09T01:00:56Z")
If I remember correctly, it has been shown on television many times. A young man wants to marry his sweetheart but some wizard has other ideas. He curses them, the boy is to be a wolf during the day and she becomes an owl at night. They stay close as at dusk they get a brief glimpse of each other during the change. It seems that one of them is a very good archer. Yes, I did try google, and I failed. I just don’t know how to word it to get relevant search returns. So, please, help an underdeveloped googler find his quarry. Thank you verrrry much! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/2 "2010-04-09T01:03:29Z")
Moving from GQ to CS. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/3 "2010-04-09T01:06:32Z")
_Ladyhawke_? > **[Ladyhawke (1985) ⭐ 6.9 | Adventure, Comedy, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089457/)** > > 2h 1m | PG-13 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/4 "2010-04-09T01:13:38Z")
Oh yeah, that’s definitely Ladyhawke 🙂 Love the movie, corny music and all. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CiQvE2cA2Y) ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/5 "2010-04-09T01:15:13Z")
Of course it’s _Ladyhawke_. And a great film, if you don’t mind the tragically '80s synth-heavy soundtrack. (And some people think it’s awesome, so YMMV.) Maybe you didn’t come up with anything on Google because she’s a hawk, not an owl? ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/6 "2010-04-09T01:20:44Z")
Thank you, Sigmagirl, I do believe that is the one. I haven’t seen it in so long that I couldn’t even get the plot right! So did you know it instinctively, or use Google, magic? Just looking at my description now makes me cringe a little. Thanks again. My apologize for posting in the wrong forum, I didn’t think CS would be the place for it. Sorry, Colibri and thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/7 "2010-04-09T12:51:44Z")
Yes, I knew it right away. I can’t help with sci-fi, but there are plenty of other Dopers standing by for that. MGM and Warner Bros. musicals and gangster films, and the entire oeuvres of about two dozen dead actors – I’m your girl. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/8 "2010-04-09T13:59:13Z")
Qwakkedup writes: \> I haven’t seen it in so long that I couldn’t even get the plot right! In fact, that seems to be a rule here. If someone can’t remember the title of a movie, they probably also can’t remember the plot correctly. This one was actually fairly close. There have been other cases that took much longer to figure out because the poster had the plot badly messed up. And, of course, there are all the ones we never worked out because the description of the plot was so far off that we couldn’t figure it out at all. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/9 "2010-04-09T16:21:42Z")
An owl at night actually makes more sense, but I guess “Ladyowle” just didn’t have the same ring. 🙂 (I like this movie, too - Matthew Broderick is a total scene-stealer throughout it.) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/10 "2010-04-09T16:35:50Z")
Little Owlady? ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/11 "2010-04-09T18:14:00Z")
Little Owlady who! You set em up and I’ll knock 'em down. ‘yodeling’ Satch they call me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/12 "2010-04-09T19:38:02Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Little Owlady? If the owl was actually an old man, they coulda called it _Coot_. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/13 "2010-04-09T20:09:15Z")
Ladyhawke is my leading contender for worst musical score of all time. I had trouble believing that whoever composed the score for the movie ever saw it or even looked at the script. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/14 "2010-04-09T20:11:58Z")
Ladyhawke is my leading contender for the most awesomest musical score of all time. Really captures the action, the adventure, and the romance. I went out and bought the CD! ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/15 "2010-04-09T20:39:17Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > An owl at night actually makes more sense, but I guess “Ladyowle” just didn’t have the same ring. 🙂 Of course, the lady becomes a hawk during the day, and the man (Rutger Hauer) becomes a wolf at _night_. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/16 "2010-04-09T20:46:10Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > Ladyhawke is my leading contender for the most awesomest musical score of all time. Really captures the action, the adventure, and the romance. I went out and bought the CD! Let me quote from a review: [http://www.dvd.net.au/review.cgi?review\_id=1867](http://www.dvd.net.au/review.cgi?review_id=1867) > [@](#): > > There’s just one thing we do need to warn you about - the music. While Andrew Powell quite obviously wrote an orchestral score and recorded it with the peerless Philharmonia Orchestra in London, he also opted (or was asked by the studio) to bring along his buddy Alan Parsons for a spot of, err, “contemporary pop” music (yes, the man that brought you the Alan Parsons Project, which is more than just a tool for world annihilation developed by Dr Evil). So while Powell’s orchestral score tries very hard to be proper Classic Hollywood by being more doe-eyed nostalgic in 60 seconds than John Williams has been in his entire career, the “rock” score sounds like Parsons revisiting I Robot with the aid of that bloody brass preset on those infernal early-'80s digital synths, the heartbeat from Dark Side of the Moon and bits of the orchestra going “bwerp” for effect. It sounds so painfully outdated now it’s probably worth mentioning that it sounded almost as painfully outdated in 1985. The “rock” score is used nauseatingly over the opening credits and then punishingly for the next 40 or so minutes of the movie, fight scenes and all. Then it virtually vanishes, and you realise just how much more fun this movie is when you aren’t wishing for Eric Cartman singing Styx, Britney Spears singing the national anthem, anything, anything but this four-bar-boogie from the bad-trip side of the '70s. > > That said (and Alan Parsons fans, if you’re still with us, err, sorry), the movie’s winningly entertaining enough to enable most to forgive the bad musical decisions and enjoy the story regardless. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-to-a-old-movie/535475/17 "2010-04-09T22:14:20Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > An owl at night actually makes more sense, but I guess “Ladyowle” just didn’t have the same ring. 🙂 > > (I like this movie, too - Matthew Broderick is a total scene-stealer throughout it.) Lady at night, hawk in the day, he was wolf at night and man during the day …