Posted on 05/31/2015 7:03:10 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
Help me find an old adventure movie, probably from the 1950s. I saw it on late night TV back in 1969. All I remember is one battle scene. An expedition with two cannon are crossing a shallow river. they are then attacked by natives using arrows, spears, blow guns. The main characters, two men, unlimber the cannon, and load them in the middle of the river, with the water almost up to the muzzle. they then fire off several rounds to chase of the natives.
One native releases a poisoned blow dart which hits one of the men in the forearm. Cut to the other leading man who grabs his machete. Cut back to the other man pulling the dart out of his forearm, the arm already turning blue and black. The other man then lops off the poisoned arm.
And That is all I remember.
Zulu not Zulu dawn.
The original was "A Farewell to Arm"
ROTFLMAO!
VERY well played, sir! My wife wanted to know what I was laughing about.
Dreams from my Father?
Not Zulu. Zulu was a great movie, BTW. One of my personal favorites.
The Mission? Robert DiNiro. Arms and the Man?
I can’t remember the name of the film, but I’m positive that the actor who got hit with the dart went on to star as the murderer/antagonist in the TV series “The Fugitive.”
Hell, I’ve been looking for a post WWII black/white film about London being deserted because of an old man with a bomb. I saw it a couple times as a child, but never saw it again. It showed empty streets, etc.
Bill Raisch, who was the murderer from The Fugitive tv series did indeed have his arm hacked off in a film ...
Spartacus. 1960.
Mr. Raisch was uncredited in that film, but his personal IMDB page does mention it.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707199/
Mine, too. The 1964 one, that is.
LOL!
I can’t remember the name of the film, but I’m positive that the actor who got hit with the dart went on to star as the murderer/antagonist in the TV series “The Fugitive.”
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707199/?ref_=tt_trv_trv ...Bill Raisch (1905–1984)
The one armed murderer (The Fugitive (TV)) was actor Bill Raisch with 20 acting credits in his career. Also, one armed man in "Spartacus'.
Do not discern any movie as one described above.
Heck, I was just trying to be clever.
From your description, I think that’s “Seven Days to Noon”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042949/
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.
"The One-Armed Bandit"(Not bloody likely though.)"Disarming", "Disarmed", "Disarm"
:-)
THE MISSION is too new a movie. The one I mentioned is from the 1950s.
Last Man on Earth was black and white but that was Vincent Price in Italy.
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