# Yet another "Which movie is this?" plea

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**Created:** [December 28, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-which-movie-is-this-plea/805451 "2017-12-28T06:38:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-which-movie-is-this-plea/805451/1 "2017-12-28T06:38:16Z")

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I’m afraid I don’t have much to go on here. When I was a little kid, I saw a movie on, I believe, _Family Classics_. I recall nothing of the movie except a couple of moments, but those moments made a deep impression on me. It was in black-and-white. Gangsters are speeding down the street, shooting their tommy guns out the windows of their car. They hit a woman who’s on the sidewalk or maybe a stoop with her children. She falls. Then we see her young son visiting her grave, sobbing his heart out in the rain. The woman and her son were Black. I think the movie was about the family, not the gangsters, but I don’t recall.

That’s all I’ve got. I know it’s not much, but I’m hoping it will ring a bell with someone.

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**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-which-movie-is-this-plea/805451/2 "2017-12-29T17:10:35Z")

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Have a bump.

What year do you think you saw this film? Was it black and white like a Bogart movie or a low-budget 70’s flick?