I was haunted by the end of a movie I saw as a child but for years, I never that that movie was.
I saw it when I was about 9 or 10 and all I remembered about it was the last scene - a man on horseback riding on an isolated beach and then suddenly jumping off his horse in despair and breaking into sobs on the beach. Then the camera panned back and you saw the top of the Statue of Liberty submerged in sand and being lapped by breaking waves.
Of course, most of us know immediately the name of this movie but I went through most of the 1970s not knowing. We had no Internet to search back in those days and there were no video rental stores to browse in as they hadn't invented the VCR yet. So I kept hoping they'd show it on the TV again at some point.
It wasn't until a camping trip with the Boy Scouts around '75 or '76 that I finally found out. We were sitting around a campfire before bedtime and I happened to mention my memory of this film. Everybody looked at me like I had three heads and shouted all at once "It's the Planet of the Apes you moron!"
Now I know.
I was watching a TV movie in the 1970s when my parents made me go to bed. I have tried to figure out the name for years.
It was based in a big city like New York. Some type of contagious condition started going around that caused people to give up smoking, drinking and other bad habits. The politicians had to find a cure because the reduction in tax revenues from sin taxes was making the government go bankrupt.
It was a comedy; no one I have spoken with has ever recognized the description.
I was haunted by a few movies as a child.
Instead of getting a baby-sitter, my parents took my brother and I to the movies. In the 1940’s and ‘50’s . . .
One scene that bugged me at the time was water rising in a tall bell tower a person (woman?) was climbing. The tower was on a strip of land, exposed and reachable at low tide. The woman may have been a nun, climbing to the cloistered area - ?
For some nutty reason, I think Tyrone Power was in it.
Another was a war movie. In the movie I think ‘we’ were fighting the Japanese. Inside a hut or something, maybe on an island, a G.I. straightened a crooked picture on the wall. When he did that, the hut blew up - scared me to death - - -
Have never looked at a picture without remembering that. Altho I do have a habit it of straightening pictures in friends’ homes!!!
I’m still here - - -