# Movie ID help **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-help/543687 "2010-06-18T16:55:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-help/543687/1 "2010-06-18T16:55:30Z")
A friend of mine is looking for a movie: “I need help from my movie buff friends! I saw this movie when I was a kid & I think about it all the time but have no idea what it’s called. There was an old couple & one of them was dying so they cut off the vacuum cleaner hose, attach it to the tailpipe of their car, put it in their trunk, turn on the car & kill themselves. Nice movie for a little kid, ay?” She says she saw it when she was about 8. I can’t remember her exact age but that would be in the early 80s. Any clue? ---
**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:** [June 18, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-help/543687/2 "2010-06-18T17:42:04Z")
My guess is it’s the made-for-cable movie Right of Way]([Right of Way (TV Movie 1983) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086198/)), starring no less than James Stewart and Bette Davis. Davis played a woman with a terminal illness, and together she and Stewart decide on a painless death for both of them. [Here’s a good descriptive analysis of the film](http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/978/Right-of-Way-1983.html). Also it’s available on YouTube if your friend wants to suffer the misery again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-help/543687/3 "2010-06-18T18:26:55Z")
That was it!! YOU GO!