"GROOOOVY!"
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.
I was wondering the same thing but I cannot find a good synopsis of it.
“Seven Days to Noon” (1950) is the name of that film.
I didn't get what you were he-heing about until I had scrolled on a few posts, then it hit me... Good job, you! You are a funny gal!
The loss of the arm is just a description of what happend. I figure most will remember the cannon fired from the middle of the stream .
Arrows, spears and blow darts. What natives used all three?
Any cannon, blow darts in it?
"GROOOOVY!"
River Of No Return starring Robert Mitchem and Marlyn Monroe. 1954. Except I don’t remember Marlyn firing a huge cannon, cutting off an arm, nor was any blow darts involved.
I figure it was probably in South America because of the blow darts.
It was the prequel to “Apocalypse Now” called “Apocalypse Before.”
Maybe something like “Secret of the Incas” (1954)? Just a guess, as it used to circulate a bit on the late-shows. But I don’t recall the scene you’re describing.
I think FijiHill got it - ‘East of Sumatra’
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045716/
I've had my own mystery movie search, for many years. I've been searching for a western movie, I saw as a kid, that had a scene where this group of men get buried in the ground up to their necks, with only their heads left showing, and then a bunch of horses are made to stampede over them. That is all I remember of that movie. But I been looking for that movie for over 40 years, and have never found it anywhere.
I ordered a bunch of old 1950s movies not seen anymore (http://hollywoodscrapheap.com/allmovies.php). And am having a great time watching them. It’s great not having to listen to vile language and not be afraid of kids wondering in the room if it is on.
From a synopsis of EAST OF SUMATRA I don’t believe that is the one. I got JIVARO and IT is not the one.
I’ve got SECRET OF THE INCAS and It is not the one.
***where this group of men get buried in the ground up to their necks, with only their heads left showing,***
GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.
There’s a movie called THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (1957) that is about transporting a cannon during wartime, and it includes a river crossing...?
Cool thanks! that’s been a stick in my craw for years. I hope amazon has it
Got it. It’s not the one. No blowguns. No two little cannon.
There are a lot of 1950s films that used to be common local-tv fodder, but have since become rather rare. Many I’d like to revisit. Items like the crime film “Damn Citizen” (1957) with Keith Andes as a Louisiana police commissioner fighting corruption, or “Night Freight” (1955), a contemporary ‘railroad’ film with Forrest Tucker and Barbara Britton.
One film that always epitomized the 1950s for me was the Republic comedy “The Lady Wants Mink” (1953), with Dennis O’Keefe and Ruth Hussey. Luckily, I still have an off-air recording of it on VHS that I recorded in 1984.
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