# Identify films from these vague scene descriptions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-films-from-these-vague-scene-descriptions/800359 "2017-11-01T02:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-films-from-these-vague-scene-descriptions/800359/1 "2017-11-01T02:55:01Z")
Growing up in the late 60’s and 70’s in the Portland, Oregon TV broadcast area, a local station played many varied films during their “Brunch Theater” presentations. A few scenes stand out for me all these years later, but I’m unsure of the films from where they likely originated from. Please identify from the following: 1: A stereotypical Indian boy (turban, loincloth, blackface) is climbing up inside a giant statue, he passes through lots of cobwebs, possibly fighting spiders, on his upward journey. 2: A man examines a wet-clay bust of a woman, he reaches out, pushes up the eyelid on the face to reveal a dead head under the clay when the eyeball is uncovered, there is a closeup of the raised eyelid. 3: A woman, standing upright, is lowered inside a windowed and lighted chamber out of sight - some kind of torture contraption? - and raised back up again. Mad doctor-type person is using a control panel at the front of the device. Lady could have been taken after being picked up from a bus/train station earlier in the film. OK… go! ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-films-from-these-vague-scene-descriptions/800359/2 "2017-11-01T03:17:26Z")
#2 (and possibly #3 as well) sounds like “Mill of the Stone Women” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-films-from-these-vague-scene-descriptions/800359/3 "2017-11-01T03:26:03Z")
#1 is Sabu in Thief of Baghdad. He is climbing up the inside of the holy statue to steal the magic giant jewel in the forehead (“the all-seeing eye!”), with which he can see what has happened to his friend, the deposed king(? or prince?) of Baghdad. [Here](http://noburbs.blogspot.com/2011/09/thief-of-bagdad.html) are a few stills from that sequence, although I couldn’t find any with the spider or webs. (Not sure what you mean by blackface, I mean what we see is pretty much his natural coloring.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-films-from-these-vague-scene-descriptions/800359/4 "2017-11-01T05:21:34Z")
Thief of Baghdad spiderweb scene. [Pic 1](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B7_ais7U4Ac/Ve_s4vee_lI/AAAAAAAAD38/0kx-ZKJSkz8/s1600/tobp4.png) [Pic 2](http://kaiju.wdfiles.com/local--files/wiki%3Aspider/spider_1940_01.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-films-from-these-vague-scene-descriptions/800359/5 "2017-11-01T05:42:42Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > #2 (and possibly #3 as well) sounds like “Mill of the Stone Women” Not the right movie yet similar themes, the ones I remember were likely from American-made films. I think the bust scene had the man walking into a studio-like room with the statue on a table. ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-films-from-these-vague-scene-descriptions/800359/6 "2017-11-01T05:46:45Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > (Not sure what you mean by blackface, I mean what we see is pretty much his natural coloring.) Likely the studio added extra body makeup to enhance the actor’s ethnicity. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-films-from-these-vague-scene-descriptions/800359/7 "2017-11-01T06:15:13Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > #1 is Sabu in Thief of Baghdad. He is climbing up the inside of the holy statue to steal the magic giant jewel in the forehead (“the all-seeing eye!”), with which he can see what has happened to his friend, the deposed king(? or prince?) of Baghdad. I suspect that that scene inspired the cover art for the [original AD&D Player’s Handbook](https://dndpdf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ADD-1st-Edition-Players-Handbook-PDF.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-films-from-these-vague-scene-descriptions/800359/8 "2017-11-01T14:37:22Z")
> [@pythonzzz](#): > > Not the right movie yet similar themes, the ones I remember were likely from American-made films. I think the bust scene had the man walking into a studio-like room with the statue on a table. Might be Roger Corman’s, “A Bucket of Blood,” though I don’t remember that exact scene.