I’m always amazed at the random and obscure knowledge found on these pages; so here’s another test!
I believe this is a TV movie- an “ABC Friday Night Movie” thing, from the 70’s. I think it was based on some sort of old legend of some sort, taking place in and around the ocean (pacific/south pacific). The heroine is a teenage girl, and I think there might have been a boy also (no, it’s not “The Blue Lagoon”!).
And here’s the final, a possibly most important clue: there’s a giant sea turtle in the story. I can’t remember how giant, maybe bigger than a schoolbus? And I think the movie ends with the turtle swimming off into the ocean, never to be seen again…
Seems like this discussion comes up every few months or so. All I ever remember about the movie is the parting shot of the turtle with the kids initials carved in the shell. Do a search on “giant turtle initials” and I bet you find more discussions. That’s not a knock on your topic, just funny how many minds this movie haunts.
The hero (James Franciscus or Tony Franciosa or one of those interchangeable square-jawed guys), a divorced dad a few days before his daughter’s birthday, goes into the men’s room at a department store, where he gets mugged and knocked unconscious. When he comes to, the store is closed and their security system–a bunch of Dobermans. Using only his wits and whatever he can scrounge up in the store, he stays alive until the store reopens the next morning.
Max- haunt is the right word. Vague images of a girl riding on top of a giant sea turtle. Someone on an IMDB review mentioned something about a whole population of adults with the same image floating around in their minds, all from an obscure movie of the week 25 years ago…
Here’s another one that I just couldn’t figure out, since I’ve never seen any of the actors before or since:
Probably early to mid-eighties-- some extremely pumped-up guy with a craggy face enlists the help of a half-dozen or so women that are either imprisoned or on the run to go on a mission to depose a dictator in Cyprus. They pose as a fashion designer and his models and receive a royal welcome. Then they do all the stupid paramilitary/espionage stuff by the numbers. Oh, and their inside man on the job is the dictator’s mistress.
This extremely non-gay-looking actor posing as a gay fashion designer was not the best spy plan, but did make for some (semi-intentional) laughs.
Anyway, mildly curious about this unforgivably horrible movie-- it was the only English thing on Japanese TV one afternoon so I watched it.
Ok Phillip Drummon (Diff’rent Strokes) is a menonite or a refugee from Little house on the Prairies and is trying to marry his fifth or sixth wife who is a little teeny bopper. Some other guy tries to stop the marraige and ends up wandering off into the sunset with the girl who is still about ten to fifteen years younger than him. (ewww!)
Oh my god, I remember this! Actually, all I can remember is the very end when he’s about to shoot one of the dobies with a compound bow from sporting goods!