Result: The Mouse And His Child (1977) Thanx Mike. May 1, 2006
this is an old cartoon movie. i think it had something to do with ocean pollution. there was a giant turtle that was stuck in mud or sludge from the pollution. it was probably late 80s early 90s. the one scene i vividly remember was a can laying at the bottom of the water and there was a picture on it of the can, and that can had a picture of another can and they kept zooming in through all these cans. it was rather freaky when i was young.
Result: The Legend Of The Boy And The Eagle (1967) It was on the Disney show several times, & was shown theatrically as a short subject with various Disney features. Thanx RomanyX.
I am looking to find the name of a film I saw in the mid-late 60s. I saw it on television and it was on many times. I think it came after the Disney show on Sunday evenings. It was about a young boy who loved eagles or hawks and was constantly teased by his friends. At the end of the movie he sticks feathers in him and ends up turning into a eagle/hawk.
Result: Skazka Stranstviy Thanx L H. Sep 11, 2006
He saw it on TV as a child, and I guess videotaped it. This would have been around the mid-80s (and it certainly sounds like a 70s/80s kids film) here goes with what i've got: "brother an sister (baby and 9 year old-ish repectivily) living as poor orphans i think in a fantastical medieveal period. The brother gets sick around gold. Bad men kidnap boy to find gold and girl searches for brother for lots of the film and eventually she finds him in a castle. Her brother has become twisted with greed and can actually draw gold towards himself and he goes a little crazy and the castle collapses but I think they escape on a glider" I've already tried "return to witch mountain" which has the gold and brother/sister stuff in - but that has been a definite no-no! The film would have been colour.
Most of the film concentrates on what happens to the older sister when they become seperated. She ends up finding a scholar living by himself in a tower, who is obsessed with building a flying machine and she attempts to help him. However he dies of the plague/leprasy which is running rampant through the country, before its completed. MAybe she makes the flying machine in the end - this could be what the brother and sister escape on at the end of the movie? I think i saw it for the first time in the mid to late 80s too. I saw it at home not in the cinema. For some reason i think it is called beyond the dragon's lair - but cannot find any movie called this and it had no reference to dragons in it as far as i can remember. Maybe that is a red herring. I have also been asking on Yahoo questions and noone else seems to remember it. For some reason i think it is more likely to be British or European not from the States.
Result: Heart And Souls (1993) Director: Ron Underwood; starring: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Tom Sizemore. Thanx Mark, RomanyX, Benjamin, Juniper, Mini Me.
The movie I am looking for is about a bus wreck. It was in color and sometime b/w 1990 and 1998. The characters (I belive 5 main ones) are dead but still in 'Limbo',not yet in heaven or hell. It seems ,if I remember correctly, that they have to help someone before they can 'move on'. I was a teenager at the time, but I do remember it being a really great movie. I watched it at home as a movie rental. I think I cried at the end.? I thought the main character that the story follows was Kevin Costner. I looked up his movies but no luck. I also tried Bruce Willis and no luck there either.
Result: Open House (2003) (TV) with Christine Lahti and Daniel Baldwin. Thanx Alli, Mini Me.
I saw a movie on TV within the last couple of years (2004-2005) about a woman whose husband left her. She had some bad dates and ended up falling in love with a friend or neighbor who babysat her child(ren?). I think the neighbor was played by Daniel Baldwin. The last scene in the movie showed her arriving at his apartment, him in the bathtub, pulling her in the tub with him.
Result: Sssssss (1973) with Dirk Benedict.recently released on DVD. The snakes were cobras. Thanx Simnia, RomanyX, Alli.
I saw a movie on TV during the late 70's (probably) or early 80's (less likely). It involved a scientist father and his young attractive daughter who lived in a rural area in a house by a pond/lake. A young man began staying with them -- I'm not sure why. Perhaps a hitchhiker or a lab assistant for the father/scientist. The young man and young woman (the scientist's daughter) started falling in love - I remember them kissing and swimming in the lake in particular. However, the scientist/father was doing some sort of experiement with snakes, and had been injecting the young man with some sort of serum he developed. The young man was slowly changing into a snake himself, and in the end of the movie he was fully transformed into a snake, the girl was heartbroken, etc.
(1979)(TV) with Rex Smith and Denise Miller. Song:You Take My Breath AwayResult: Mission Magic with rick springfield and he also had a cat in the show Thanx lighteningbug. Jul 24, 2006
I remember a children's show from the 70's. It was part live action, part cartoon. It centered around a teacher who had a magic chalkboard. I think she drew a door on it (or somethign like that) and the kids could open that door and step through into a world where they were cartoon character.
Result: Sooner Or Later (1979) (TV) with Rex Smith and Denise Miller. Song:You Take My Breath Away Thanx Alli.
Result: Endless Love (1981) starring Brooke Shields.The song "Endless Love" was by Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie. Thanx Simnia.
I remember a popular TV movie from (I think) the late 70's or early '80's. It involved a handsome guy who fell in love with a girl one summer. By the end of the summer, though, he discovered she was 15 (!) and had lied about her age. She was heartbroken when he broke it off, etc. It seems like it was called "summer love" or something like that. The male lead had a top ten hit (one hit wonder) that was tied to the movie I think - he may have been a teen idol in his own right.
Result: Alfred Hitchcock Presents ('80s Series) episode: Final Escape First aired: 10/27/1985. (Season 1, Episode 4). This is a remake of an original episode (of the same name) from the 1964 "Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (Season 2, Episode 50). Thanx RomanyX, Benjamin.
Certainly a re-make of #963, but more recent than Alfred Hitchcock Presents, probably somewhere around 1985-86. I'm fairly certain it was one of those half-hour "Twilight Zone" take-offs (like Amazing Stories or Night Gallery), but I can't find it in any of their episode directories. It's about a white, female inmate who purposefully breaks the eyeglasses of the old, black prison grave digger, so that she becomes necessary to him (to read his mail to him). In return for her "generosity," he agrees to help her escape. The plan is for her to come down to the prison morgue when the next prisoner dies (she'll know when because they ring a bell) and get into the coffin. He and his crew will bury it, but then he'll come back alone later that night and dig her up. The last shot is her lighting a match while buried, and discovering that the dead body next to her is the grave digger. Then the match burns out.
Result: Unico In The Island Of Magic or the fantastic adventures of unico Thanx marilynnnnn2003. Jun 18, 2006
ok i saw this animated movie on the disney channel of all places between 1988 and 1992. it was a very disturbing and graphic movie as i recall but i could be wrong. it was a anime i think. japanese animation. ummm it was about a little girl who was seduced by this evil guy in a castle and towards the end of the movie he falls out of a tower onto a another tower's spike top and theres a thunderstorm happening i think. i think the little girl has animal friends she talks to or something and she spends time at this river with flowers in it.
Result: The Boy Who Loved Trolls (1984) (TV) with Matthew Dill, Sam Waterston and William H. Macy (who could look a bit like Wallace Shawn from Clueless). Thanx Alli. Jul 20, 2006
Result: The Princess Bride (1987) with Fred Savage and Wallace Shawn (teacher from Clueless). Thanx Alli.
Result: Little Monsters Thanx Mark.
it was a fred savage movie i saw from the 80s where a boy who believes in trolls finds one under a bridge and they become friends. and the troll takes him to this fantasy world or whatnot and he meets some of the trolls friends one of whom is a turtle character played by the teacher from clueless. at the end of the movie the boy realizes theres no such thing and stops hallucinating or something. very heartwarming blah
Result: Riders Of The Storm (1986) Starring Dennis Hopper & Michael J. Pollard. Thanx me, RomanyX.
This film was seen on St. Martin in the 80s. It was about a group of vietnam war vets who reconditioned a vintage bomber and flew above America with an outlaw radio station broadcasting from the plane. They fueled in the air and even did some wing-walking repairs to keep the old bird flying.
Result: The Aerodrome (1983) (TV) with Vass Anderson. Thanx Alli. Apr 25, 2006
This was an english film, set in the UK of the not too distant future and was shown on terrestial TV during the mid nineties. I think the film had the word 'Drome' in it somewhere? It began with a scene from the 1800's and a dozen or so Black African slaves being delivered via a boat to a beach somewhere. They are treated badly, but then the film goe's forward in time to an inner city ghetto, and these same people have been re-incarnated. IT's a totally fascist state, and all the black people are forced to live within the confines of the ghetto walls. A pregnant black woman is beaten up by white racists (I think) and the police response is to arrest a black woman that protests, and she is executed. The film has a little Rap music and poetry of sorts!
Result: Starcrash (1979) aka Star Crash Thanx Simnia. Mar 22, 2006
This was a science fiction film that came out in 77 or 78 just about the same time as starwars. The main detail that sticks is the robot from the film. His personality was based on old western heroes such as John Wayne. He also is in love with the heroine. I saw it in the theatre and as I remember it had a huge ad campaignand build up as the next great sci fi thing but petered out shortly after release. The only other detail is that they traveled to strange worlds one of which was inhabited by giant amazons.
Result: Paperhouse (1988) (again) with Charlotte Burke, Elliott Spiers and Glenn Headly. Charlotte Burke is the sick little girl who draws the paperhouse with a sick little boy inside and they become friends.This is a British film. Thanx Mark, Simnia, Alli.
I saw this movie on HBO or Showtime in 1990 or 1991. I believe it may be a British film, although I wouldn't swear on it. It's the story about a sick boy--maybe 6 years old--who lives upstairs in a tall house and as a way "out" of his sickness crosses over into a kind of alternative fantasy world where he strikes up a relationship with another young character. I 'think' the title had the word "House" in it (it isn't "House of Cards" with Kathleen Turner and Tommy Lee Jones). Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I watched it with my children back when they were young and now they are pestering me to watch it again.
Result: Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992) with Samantha Mathis,Christian Slater and Robin Williams. Thanx Alli.
Result: Once Upon A Forest (1993) Thanx Simnia.
I saw a movie in the 90's (I'm guessing early 90's), its a cartoon movie and we used to have it on videotape. Its is about some animals who live in a forest and there is a poisonous gas that is in the forest because of some truck that had an accident or something and one of the animals families will die if they don't go and find a particular plant that a cure can be made from. At one point in the movie I believe that they make an airplane out of some things they find and there is also either a hawk or an eagle that almost attacks them. The main point about the movie that I remember is that there is a character that is either a mole or a possum or something that wore a scarf and glasses because my brother used to have a stuffed animal of that chracter.
Result: Unico In The Island Of Magic or the fantastic adventures of unico Thanx marilynnnnn2003. Jun 18, 2006
this was a color cartoon movie from the mid to late 80's about a wizard that takes children and turns them into blocks to build his castle with. the wizard appears in the shape of an orb and has weird eyes. i think the father of the two children that were the main characters had a beard and looked like a lumber jack. i remember in the end of the movie the block castle was huge and the wizard was floating around so high that below him looked like a black pit? one of the children gets turned into a block and the other one saves him. i saw it on tv when i was younger and it looked like it was american but im not sure.
Result: The Great Land Of Small (1987) Thanx Alli.
.All I remember is that it is an 80s movie. Some kids go over a rainbow to a mgaic land where there is a leprechaun and he has some magic gold pieces that grant wishes or something. There are butterfly people...or the kids get turned into butterfly people. I don't remember which. It is live action. the leprechaun has to use his last magic gold to send them home. I keep associating this wiht "The sand fairy" even though it's not the same movie, maybe there is a similar element.
Result: The People That Time Forgot (1977) sequel to The Land That Time Forgot (1975). Director: Kevin Connor; starring: Doug McClure, Patrick Wayne, Sarah Douglas. Thanx Mark, Juniper, Alli.
I saw this movie on TV about 1995 I believe it looked to be a older film I would say 60-70's what I remember was. These people sail in a submarine under the ice (I believe they were chasing Germans not really sure) and they discover this lost world which had all these civilizations in it. Ranging from prehistoric to advanced(for some reasons I belive there was seven) they journey thru these various civilizations try to retrieve something (sorry can't for the life of me remember what it was) One scene that I really remember was the use of a flash to get past this trapped hallway which had these lizard like heads in it. The flash of the camera blinded them. From what I recall I believe this was set World War 1 to World War 2 there was a blond heroine type and I believe a small skinny guy and the hero.
Result: Magic In The Water Thanx kyacarver. May 27, 2006
i was looking or a childrens movie not animated with a sea creature whom ate oreo cookies in the night, the child or children go with the sea creature and the father digs to china. the creatures name is Orgie i think.
Result: The Rescue (1988) with Kevin Dillon and Edward Albert. Thanx Alli.
A movie seen on TV in the late '80's or early 90' - a best guess is '91, but not sure. Think it was Disney - or one of the kid centric tv channels. The plot involved kids rescuing the Navy Seal dad of one of the children - who was being held captive in Asia - I believe Korea.
Result: Devils Pond (2003) Thanx Marphisa. May 12, 2006
A movie that I rented a couple years ago. Girl marries man of her dreams and they go to his cabin on honeymoon that he chains her up so she can't ever leave. Its on an island and she can't swim so she is trapped.
Result: Mr. Sardonicus (1961) starring Oskar Homolka and directed by William Castle. One of William Castle's "gimmick" films. When it showed in theaters the audience participated in a "punishment poll," voting thumbs up or down on Mr. S (who was a very nasty character). The majority always voted thumbs-down--which is a good thing, 'cause Bill only filmed one ending! Thanx Mark, Stareater, RomanyX.
This was a 50's or 60's I think, poss colour. The bit a remember is that the central character was a tormented man who hid his face behind a mask (to cover his mouth which was fixed in a hiddeous skull-like grin due to the shock of seeing his dead father). A Doctor convinces him if he sees the body of his father again it will counteract the effect and his mouth would return to normal. Unfortunately after seeing his father again he is left with a permanently & tightly closed mouth and cannot eat. There's a scene where he's trying to stuff food into his mouth. His sidekick would help by getting the Doctor back but doesn't help so the guy is doomed! I can't for the life of me find anything on this film. I thought the actors were Cushing, Lee & Lorre but I can't find anything that fits this story. Help!
Result: O Lucky Man! (1973) with Malcolm McDowell. Thanx Alli. Aug 25, 2006
Circa 1973-1974, science fiction or horror. A man is hospitalized and at one point he is left alone in his hospital room so he decides to go exploring the hospital. He finds another man in a bed breathing hard and sweating as if in pain. He asks what's wrong, and if he can help, the patient doesn't answer, then the exploring man finally throws the sheets back to see if there's anything visibly wrong with the patient. He sees that the patient's entire lower body is that of a sheep. The hospital is not a hospital at all, but a laboratory doing experiments on humans, and the exploring man realizes that they intend to do the same experiment on him, too. My girlfriend told me about this movie in 1974, so it was probably made in 1973. American movie, probably color, I don't know where she saw it or any more details, but it sounded intriguing!
Result: Brainstorm (1983) starring Natalie Wood(her last film role before her death) & Christopher Walken. Thanx Mark, Stareater, RomanyX, Mini Me, Alli, Craig.
I saw this movie on video in the mid-'80s, but I'm pretty sure it was released in late '70s. It's a sort of near-future sci-fi flick set in the U.S. A company has figured out how to record human experience directly from the brain (by reading brainwaves, I think), and play it back for other people (something like what they did in '90s movie, "Strange Days," but without the cyberpunk feel). I'm hazy on the actual plot line, as I haven't seen it since I was a child, but I seem to recall that someone gets killed while being recorded. Somehow, people start dying (of course). What stands out the most in my memory is that relatively early in the movie, the company was presenting the invention in a board-room setting to investors, board members, or something of the like, and played a roller coaster experience for a small number of "viewers" who were suitably impressed.
Result: Cloak & Dagger (1984) with Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman. Thanx Alli.
Im lookin for an 80's I remember seeing as a kid, had to be late 80's... it had a little boy and his sister and I think they were spies. I remember it was kinda hardcore for a kids movie, people getting shot and what not. I think their parents were killed or something like that.
Result: Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) Thanx Jessica. Jul 7, 2006
I saw this film I think in 1996 but I don't think it was released then. It was made in the USA or at least i think so. It was all color. I think it was released in the 70's, 80's, or 90's. My dad rented this for us when we were little. The movie is about this girl who just got out of high school. She is 18 and a fashion designer. She gets some clothes stolen and she finds these little munchkins or small creatures in the back alley behind her shop. The creatures live in the alleys and in the trash cans. The creatures are nice and friendly and they come to the help of this girl.
Result: Popeye (1980) The periscope was Popeye's pipe, and through it he spots Olive Oil and Sweet Pea in rowboats after Pluto has kidnapped them, with Popeye swimming to the rescue. Thanx Simnia. May 23, 2006
I saw only the preview for this film, in 1980, I'm pretty sure. It showed a submarine periscope popping out of the water very quickly, and quickly scanning left and right, almost unrealistically fast, and I think popping back down again. It must have been a comedy. Sorry, but that's the only thing I remember about the preview. The preview was shown around the time of "Convoy" and "The Black Hole", which would have been 1979-1980. American film, in color, preview shown at a drive-in theater in California.
This film is not the comedy film "1941" (1979), since the periscope effect in the preview I remember was much less realistic than in "1941." Also, the films I saw around the time of seeing that preview all had dates around 1978, so 1978 is a more likely year of release: "Animal House" (1978), "Convoy" (1978), "The Lord of the Rings" (1978), "Star Trek" (1978), "Superman" (1978), "The Black Hole" (1979).
Result: The Boatniks (1970) but it was a jewel thief in the water, not teens, and there was only one shark. Thanx Simnia. Apr 6, 2006
This is a comedy I saw at a children's matine'e in 1969-1970, possibly a Disney film. The only part I remember is that two teenaged boys found themselves floating in the ocean with shark fins coming in. They were having all kinds of adventures, and the shark attack was just one more. I think they may have been whiz kids, and the style was very much like "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes," but that isn't the film I'm thinking of. American film, comedy, color, seen in an indoor theater.
Result: Flight Of The Lost Balloon (1962) It is a hydrogen balloon, not a hot air balloon, and Gelan (Felippe Birriel) had his tongue torn out, not cut out. Thanx Simnia. Apr 8, 2006
wrongly identified as "Master of the World" (1961). I just bought that video based on that identification, and it doesn't have either scene I described. It was an excellent guess, though. "Master of the World" has a zeppelin-like airship, but I believe the film I remember had a conventional spherical hot-air balloon. I remember that the headlong dive from the balloon was very impressive, and showed the hero splashing into the ocean something 100-200 feet below, though in real life that would have probably killed him. I think just before he dove over the side he joked about taking a morning swim, as if such a feat were nothing to him. I believe it was after they landed on the island that they met a man of whom they asked a question, and the other native inhabitant with him explained that the man could not answer because his tongue had been cut out. I think the mute man then openened his mouth to show them his truncated tongue.
Adventure film, was shown on TV a few times in the early 1960s, 1963 at the latest. A major part of the story involved a hot air balloon and a man whose tongue had been cut out. The hero and some men are riding in the balloon over the ocean, hoping to arrive at land. At one point the hero dives out of the balloon for a swim while they are hundreds of feet over the ocean, the balloon having finally approached land (an island). One man has to explain to the hero that the man they meet can't speak beause his tongue has been cut out. The film is not "Around the World in 80 Days" or "The Crimson Pirate" or "Six Weeks in a Balloon" or "Mysterious Island" but it could be "Flight of the Lost Balloon" or "Voyage en Ballon". It had an adventurous Jules Verne / swashbuckling style, though. American film, but it may have been color or black-and-white since I saw it only on a black-and-white TV. This was shown on TV around the same years that the Disney film "In Search of the Castaways" (1962) was also being shown on TV.
Result: Beautiful Thing (1996) Directed by Hettie MacDonald. Starring Linda Henry, Glen Berry and Scott Neal. Thanx Marcia. May 4, 2006
I remember a movie where there was this teenage boy who was always abused(beaten up) by his brother and father** (i think). They lived upstairs in an apartment complex i believe. A lady who lived in the apartment next to the abused boy decided to let the boy stay with her and her son after she realised what was happening. So he had to sleep in the bed with her son. i remember that one night, one of the boys had a sore back i believe ( he had gotten beaten up probably), so the other boy was rubbing something on his back in the bed. they really started to like each other and at the end of the movie, they went out in the open in front of their building and started to dance. I think i remember that all of the people in the movie had an english accent. There was also a black girl in the film who i believe was the friend of the boys. Also, the mother had found a book in her son's room (probably at the begininng of the movie). Students from school had written bad stuff about her son on it, referring to his sexuality. One of the boys (probably the one with the mother) stole a gay magazine from a store which he hid in his room. I also remember the boys sittin in bed and talking one nite about a girl from school. And i remember one of them saying "She fancies you". to the other one
Result: Lockdown (2000) starring Richard T. Jones, Gabriel Casseus & De'aundre Bonds. Thanx Ben. Sep 1, 2006
a movie about 3 innocent men who went to prison. two of the men started fights with other inmates when they got there so they would be seen as tough by others. They both won. When the third guy tried to do the same, he was beaten up and after that he was constantly raped by the man he had tried to fight. He would usually cry while he was being raped. The movie is kind of "raw" too. it shows alot of the sex scenes and you can see alot of what is going on.
Result: The Reivers (1969) The watermelon thumping / Tennessee sheriff part is from this film, but the hand & blouse part is not. Thanx Simnia. Jun 15, 2006
Circa 1970-1973, drama. The setting is the American South in modern times. There's an offensive, obese southern white man at one point who asks a boy (I think) to fetch him a watermelon, and instructs the boy "Do you know how to thump them to tell if they're ripe? I don't like green ones. Green ones gives me gas." Toward the end of the movie a (white) man's wife is seated in chair in a room, I think preparing to testify against him, and he tries to persuade her with sex not to do so, by putting his hand down her blouse and saying, "Don't tell me you ain't feelin' somethin' right now," but she just refuses his advances, tells him to stop it, and goes on to testify. American film, color, seen in a movie theater in California, probably 1971-1972.
Result: The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) director: George Roy Hill; featuring Robert Redford and Bo Svenson. Thanx Juniper.
1968 or 1967. Set in relatively modern times, a man with an old-fashioned plane (a biplane?) is giving rides in his plane at an air show, and is particularly interested in making time with an attractive young woman who is one of the people at the show who goes for a ride. So once she gets on board, he ignores all the kids waiting in line for plane rides while he merrily entertains his female guest, and a little boy who has been waiting for a plane ride a very long time until dark begins crying. A sad scene, and the only part I remember clearly. There may have been another man traveling with the pilot throughout the movie, as if they were n'er-do-wells struggling to get by with their limited resources and skills (their plane). Altogether it wasn't a very interesting movie, I suppose. I saw this in early 1968 at a drive-in theater with "Ace High" (1968), so this movie must have been made in 1967 or 1968. American movie, color.
Result: Goodbye, Columbus with Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw (based on the book by Philip Roth). Thanx Craig.
1971-1973, drama. A young man meets the family of his fiancee (I believe). They might be Jewish. The fiancee's brother is socially inept, and appears to live at home in his fantasy world of high school football, with high school football paraphernalia all over on the walls, and there is a long embarrassed lapse of silence as the two males try to think of something in common to talk about in the brother's bedroom, while the brother squirms but smiles the whole time. At another part of the film the couple has just had sex, the man is showering, and asks her nonchalantly about her birth control method, she calls out that she doesn't use any, and he's so stunned at her irresponsibility that he lets the soap fall from his hand. I think he leaves her at the end because he can't handle her or her family any more. American film, color, seen in a movie theater, possibly as early as 1970, but probably 1972-1973.
Result: Full Moon In Blue Water (1988) Gene Hackman, Teri Garr & Burgess Meredith. Thanx RomanyX.
Result: Barfly (1987) with Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. Thanx Craig.
1990? A man who has lost his wife (I believe) who died is wasting away with drink and melancholy, I think possibly in a tropical Florida bar. This goes on for years and a woman finally asks him something like, "Harry, how much longer are you going to live in the past?" and I think reminds him that his wife is dead and not coming back and that he has to get on with his life. I believe he then starts up a romance, either with the woman who asked him that, or with a younger woman. I saw only the preview for this at the start of another video movie I rented in 1990, so the year must have been 1990 or only 1-2 years before that. It was a (sad) drama, an American movie, in color.
Result: The Professionals (1966) Thanx Simnia. May 29, 2006
1965-1967, Western/drama. I remember only one part of this movie: the main male character was recalling with bitter hatred why he hated (American) Indians so much. He said his wife was once captured by Indians, who tied her behind a horse and "they dragged her through the cactus until her skin was..." and then he breaks off in his description, choked up with emotion. American film, color, I think I saw it at a drive-in theater. Very typical Western film.
Result: Beanie & Cecil Thanx RomanyX.
Result: New Adventures Of Pinocchio Cool S. Cat Thanx RomanyX.
Which film had the phrase "Don't bug me man, don't bug me."? I remember it was from the early 1960s, and the male actor says the phrase in a cool voice, like a beatnik or a hippy or a black man. He might've said the phrase several times throughout the film. It's certainly an American film, most likely a comedy, and in color. Other movies that had characters in this style were "Dumbo" (1941), "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1963), and "What's So Bad About Feeling Good?" (1968), so that gives a hint about year and style. I may have seen this at a drive-in theater.
Result: Where's Poppa (1970) starring George Segal. Thanx Kip. Mar 12, 2006
Circa 1974, comedy. The scene I remember is where a guy dressed in a gorilla outfit comes rampaging into a room in an attempt to scare an old lady, who might be on her bed in her bedroom, or there might be other people present who are all scared off. The old lady isn't afraid, however, and she nonchalantly kicks the man in the balls, whereupon he immediately is incapacitated, and stands rigidly while clutching himself, and she calmly walks off. American film, color, I saw this in a college pub in 1974 via film projector, so it was likely made in 1972-1973. I would have sworn this movie was "Harold and Maude" (1971), but it's not.
Result: Altrimenti Ci Arrabbiamo! (1974) aka Watch Out, We're Mad directed by Marcello Fondato; starring Terence Hill (real name Mario Girotti) and Bud Spencer (real name Carlo Pedersoli) Thanx Juniper. Jul 10, 2006
I remember watching a very funny movie when I was a teenager early 80's or late 70's. The film was in colour and I think was dubbed from Italian but I am a bit usure of that. The movie is about two men possibly brothers who inadvertanly do something wrong that upsets a local mobster. The mobster highers a hitman to kill them and the whole film is about the bumbling hitman messing up over and over again while trying to kill them. Eventually the mobster is so upset with these two men that he says he will do anything to appease them, and the two ask for the mobster to give them two go carts or dune buggies and the two happily drive off. A very funny film.
Result: The Gemini Man 70's TV Series that was also shown as a TV-Movie. Thanx Mark.
This was a movie I saw on TV as a child in the early to mid 80s. It was about a man in a wheelchair who dons an indestructible red armor suit to fight the bad guys. I remember he has to get into the suit while it is lying on its back (possibly in two halves?). I also believe he kept/donned it in a van/Winnebago of some sort. I don't know if this was a failed pilot or a made for TV movie, but for some reason these images have stuck with me throughout the years. I don't even remember it being that good.
Result: Mr. Sycamore (1975) Starring Jason Robards. Thanx RomanyX, Alli.
I remember watching a movie on HBO back in 1980 or 1981 about a man that wants to become a tree. I remember that he would stand in his front yard all day and wish to become a tree. I have been trying for years to find this film with very little information.
Result: The Happy Prince Christopher Plummer & Glynis Johns, This is the English edit version of the Japanese animation of Oscar Wilde's novel. Thanx Jim. Mar 20, 2006
When I was growing up in Canada I saw an animated TV holiday show from the late 60's or the 70's that featured a bird, I think it was a swallow who failed to fly south with it's flock for the winter. The story showed this little bird trying to survive the winter while living in a city. My memory seems to recall that it ended up dying but after it did good things.
Result: Playing By Heart starring a very young Angelina Jolie. Thanx Erika, rampantbliss.
Rented a color comedy movie a few years ago, story follows 3 or 4 different women, their lives don't seem to intersect however at the end it turns out they are sisters attending the same wedding - maybe of one of their parents or an anniversary party.
Result: Black Sabbath (1963) aka The Three Faces of Terror aka The Three Faces of Fear aka I Tre volti della paura(Italian title) directed by Mario Bava and starring Boris Karloff. A Drop of Water segment, based on a short story by Checkhov. Thanx Alli, Stareater, Mark, RomanyX. Feb 8, 2006
The movie that I want to find is a black and white film. It was probably around the 50's, maybe early 60's. The movie included three seperate stories. I thought it was called Three Tales of Terror, but I can't seem to find anything that ever matches that description. One story was called the Drip, or the Drop, or maybe the Drop of water. The Drip is about a nurse that was called to a home to prepare a dead woman for burial. She sees that the corpse has a ring that she likes, so she pulls and pulls until it comes off. As soon as it does, the sink in the kitchen starts dripping. She goes to turn it off and the sink in bathroom starts dripping. You can hear a drip as it echoes and radiates through the house. I think the dead woman gets mad and comes after the ring. I know that was the second story. I am not sure what the first one was about. I originally thought it had Boris Karloff, but I have looked at several of his Filmologies and I can't find a match, so I am not sure. I have no idea what the third story was about.
Result: Horror Express (1973) starring Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee. Thanx Stareater, Mark, RomanyX.
trying to think of an older movie, it played in the 70's but may have been made in the 60's? the setting was a train. and people were being murdered on it and the bad guys had red glowing eyes.
Result: Wolfen (1981) starring Albert Finney & Edward James Olmos. Thanx Stareater, Marphisa, Mark, Alli, RomanyX.
This is a last resort, and if you cannot find out with little information I have, I understand, as I have searched everything I can think of. OK, late 70's early 80's, color. Seen on HBO, Showtime, or Cinemax in America. Real wolves appear in this film, including a black wolf, which I think was the leader. But they seem to appear out of nowhere. The only scene I remember clearly, was an older man, who may have been a detective, not sure, standing by his car while the wolves surround him. He is attacked and beheaded, they actually show the head land on the ground and his eyes move. For some reason I am thinking these wolves only killed people with disease.
Result: Deep Red (1975) aka Profondo Rosso by director Dario Argento. Thanx Mark, anon.
I was a kid at the time, but I remember(barely) a movie I saw. It was either the late 70's or early 80's and I don't remember if it was in the theaters or on T.V. It was a Horror/Thriller. I can see a person strangle a woman from behind in an elevator with some kind of rope or chainand the blood starts running down her neck and I think someone was either throwned out of a window or jumped out at night.
Result: The Last Unicorn Thanx rampantbliss.
Result: Legend (1985) starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, and Tim Curry, director Ridley Scott. Thanx Stareater, Jeremy, anon, Marphisa, Mark, Alli, RomanyX, Erica, ALNA70.
While searching the internet I saw a picture of a devil/demon from this movie and it brought back some memories of the movie, however I do not remember the title. I used to love it when I was younger. I believe it was made in the early eighties.. definitely no later than 1990, but it could be before 1980. I used to rent it in the video store. It is in color, and it is not a foreign film. I saved the picture of the devil/demon and I can send it if you would like it. I think that I remember a young man and a young woman in love and being taken away from one another by this devil/demon. One of the last scenes I remember (after they kill the devil/demon) is the young woman sleeping in the forest... and there might be a unicorn around. It has a very fantasy type feel to it. The devil/demon is BRIGHT RED with GIANT horns, like a bull.
Result: Prince Of Darkness (1987) starring Jameson Parker, direct by John Carpenter and a cameo by Alice Cooper as a homeless person. Thanx Stareater, Jeremy, anon, Alli, RomanyX.
I saw this film between 1985-95 on TV in England, in Colour. I only saw a part of it, but it was very creepy and atmospheric. It concerned a mirror which was some kind of portal to where Satan or some devil creature was chained up in foggy liquid (as I recall). People were pulled through the mirror and when their friends pulled them out again they were shredded up.
Result: Blood Rage (1987) Thanx ALNA70.
a movie I saw in the theaters in the mid 80's, I dont remember much but what I do remember is something about twin brothers and some kind of death/murder which results in on of them being sent away, the story is about 10 or so years later when he escapes from where he was sent or something like that, I seem to rememebr a lake and the main guy having blond hair.
Result: Shock Waves (1977) starring Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams, and Luke Halpin(the kid from 'Flipper'). The film is in color, not black & white. Thanx Stareater, Mark, Alli, RomanyX, ALNA70.
I'm not sure when the film was made, but it was all in black & white. A scary flick. I saw it around 1985 or so. A group of people (don't know where they were going) landed somehow on a deserted island. I remember the island looked like it had been a resort at some time complete with a "club house" and bungalows. The island is all overgrown and looks as if no one has been there in years. The people start looking around the island & I'm not exactly sure how it all comes to pass, but there are dead men in the water that are coming alive, slowly. They just stand up and walk out of the water real slow-like to kill the people on the island. The men are dressed in dark clothing (it's black & white remember) and have goggles and some sort of tight-fitting hat (pilot hat, perhaps?) Anyway, the people try to escape the island in a flat-glass-bottomed boat and end up seeing dead people float up into the underside of the boat. The escaping people find that the only way to kill the dead guys is to tear their goggles off. I can't remember if the people get away or not. For the life of me, I cannot find the title of this movie & no one seems to know what movie I am talking about.
Result: No Such Thing (2001) starring Sarah Polley. Thanx Marphisa, rampantbliss.
Searching for a movie I saw a couple of years(?) ago about a girl who works for a magazine whose photographer boyfriend went missing somewhere in either Iceland or Greenland (can't remember which) and the magazine dicided to send her to find him. She was duped by some town's people and taken to an island to be a sacrefice to this monster (the same fate as her boyfriend, it turns out) but ends up befriending the monster who has cut off his horns. Anyway, this monster has been around since time began and has tried and failed at suicide over the millions of years it has been around; it can't be killed. She takes the monster back to New York and the magazine wants to exploit him, as does the military. In comes this doctor who had invented this machine that can unmake things, or something like that, and a mad race is to get this monster into the machine ensues between the girl/monster/mad doctor and the military and the magazine. Finally, the machine is completed and the monster enters. The machine is turned on. the military is breaking down the door and entering. the machine unmakes the monster and time ceases to exist . . . the screen goes black.
Result: The Hearse (1980) Thanx ALNA70.
Result: Burnt Offerings (1976) starring Oliver Reed & Bette Davis. Thanx Stareater, anon, Marphisa, Mark, Alli, sydney.
All I remember... a chauffeur in a black outfit, black cap, mirrored sunglasses (I think). He drove this black car and had a broad, frightening smile. It must have been 70s or early 80s-- I saw it around 84 or 85. I seem to remember a huge house, which for some reason, was alive? .. threw some people out of a top window, onto a windshield?.
Result: Strangeland (1998) with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, Robert Englund and Amy Smart. Thanx Alli, rampantbliss, ALNA70.
Result: The Cell (2000) Starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn & Vincent D'Onofrio...plus tons of others.. Thanx Jeremy, Erica.
The movie I am looking for involves a killer that hangs himself by hooks from the celing of a room in his house. I think he does it every time he kills somebody. Also I think he lures his victims to his house by using chat rooms. I cant remember anybody in the film or when it was made.
Result: Child Of Glass (1978) (TV) with Olivia Barash. Thanx Alli.
In the 1970's I remember seeing a tv show/movie where 2 children were trying to solve a mystery about a little girl ghost who had died. I remember that her clothes were probably from the victorian era and this is what I recall about what happened to her: Her mother had gone out for the evening...she came home and lay down with her daughter and gave her child her diamond necklace...the daughter tucked it inside her china doll's clothing...I think there was a burglar who came to the house...the daughter ran from the home...I think the home caught on fire...the little girl fell in the well... I think a barn catches on fire later in the story, but I'm not 100% sure. I do know that they find the china doll on a ledge inside the well and discover the necklace. The little girl's body is found lower in the well. I saw this about the same time that the Hardy Boys was replaying on tv. I thought for awhile it was a Hardy Boy's episode, but heck if I know...
Result: The Shuttered Room (1967) with Gig Young, Carol Lynley and Oliver Reed. Thanx Alli, ALNA70.
I remember I saw this film on TV about late 70's early 80's I can't remember any names I was young when I saw It. Anyways What I remember is that it's starts out with two girls and their parents that live in a huge house One sister Is mentally ill and they lock her in the attic at night she sneaks down and hide in her sister's Dollhouse Later in the movie the Aunt tends to the mentally ill one and has her chained up Someone goes into the house thinking noones there and a girl and lying on a bed rolling nylons on up her leg and the crazy sister in under the bed with long nails and kills the girl .Then somewhere after a guys falls out the hayloft onto a pitchfork and the end you see the house burn down with the gil and aunt in it with the sister watching it burn I believe. Eveyone I talk to about this movie seem to remember it, but no one can remember the name of it..I thought it was the red room or Scarlett door
Result: Two On A Guillotine (1965) with Cesar Romero and Connie Stephens. Thanx Alli. Mar 7, 2006
Result: Scream Of Fear (1961) Thanx ALNA70.
60s black & White horror movie about a woman who returns to her childhood estate after her fathers death only to be haunted by her dead father and finds him floating in the pool, sitting in a chair in the study, etc. I also remember there may have been a caretaker or relative behind the "hauntings" to drive the woman crazy or to her death. Saw it on Television.
Result: Asylum (1972) Sounds like the final segment. Thanx Mark, RomanyX.
Been trying to figure this out since I was a kid. Saw a movie trailer sometime in the 1970's, may have been about a haunted house. In the trailer, there is this wind up toy with a spear sticking out of it that is moving across a table at a victim. Someone crushes the toy, but instead of there being springs inside, the toy is filled with worms/goo.
Result: Ghost Story/circle Of Fear Episode entitled The Phantom of Herald Square. It starred David Soul of Starsky & Hutch(TV) fame. Thanx RomanyX.
There was an episodic TV show that had different stories each week, more modern than Twilight Zone and probably broadcast during the mid/late 70s. The show was either half an hour or an hour, but this particular episode involved a woman who falls in love with a man who has some sort of dark secret. I don't think he's a wolf or a vampire, but it's something that he has to hide, and the denoument occurs with him sitting in what appears to be a stuffed chair in a hotel room (I remember hotel room-style curtains behind his head) as he confesses his undying love and his dark secret to the woman). The actor who played this tortured man was a minor TV star at the time - may have recently come off a series at the time, and I think he was in the blonde-shaggy-haired mold of Michael York, who was popular around that time.
Result: The Sentinel (1976) starring christina raines. Thanx sydney.
From sometime in the mid 70s - seen on network TV as part of one of those anthology shows like Fantasy Island with different stories each time. I think this was a show that appeared only after Fantasy Island became popular, but this series had a supernatural twist. I recall some sort of romantic theme between a man and a woman - thwarted love, maybe? but the most vivid image is at the end of the episode, where the camera looks out over a crowded room of terribly deformed/disfigured people, all facing forward towards the camera and chanting; perhaps they are trying to prevent someone/something from happening? and as they chant, dawn breaks and they all fade into nothing and the room is empty.