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Help Me find an old movie
Vanity | 5-31-2015 | self

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.


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To: Fiji Hill

I was wondering the same thing but I cannot find a good synopsis of it.


41 posted on 05/31/2015 8:43:17 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: laweeks

“Seven Days to Noon” (1950) is the name of that film.


42 posted on 05/31/2015 8:45:12 PM PDT by greene66
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To: MinuteGal
Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" (1932)

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!

43 posted on 05/31/2015 8:46:05 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*ou)
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To: Heart-Rest

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?


44 posted on 05/31/2015 8:46:36 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Fiji Hill

Any cannon, blow darts in it?


45 posted on 05/31/2015 8:47:54 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Arrows, spears and blow darts. What natives used all three?
Do you remember what area of the world the movie was portraying? Any other small details that were unique?
46 posted on 05/31/2015 8:54:01 PM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: SunTzuWu
The original was "A Farewell to Arm"

"GROOOOVY!"


47 posted on 05/31/2015 8:54:48 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: Perdogg

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.


48 posted on 05/31/2015 8:55:47 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: libertarian27

I figure it was probably in South America because of the blow darts.


49 posted on 05/31/2015 9:04:48 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

It was the prequel to “Apocalypse Now” called “Apocalypse Before.”


50 posted on 05/31/2015 9:06:31 PM PDT by matt1234
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

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.


51 posted on 05/31/2015 9:11:14 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; Fiji Hill

I think FijiHill got it - ‘East of Sumatra’
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045716/


52 posted on 05/31/2015 9:12:33 PM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Can't help with that one, but I'll keep an eye open for it.

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.

53 posted on 05/31/2015 9:28:45 PM PDT by WhatNot (Many who say "I'll accept Jesus at the eleventh hour" die at 10:30)
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To: greene66

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.


54 posted on 05/31/2015 9:31:45 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: WhatNot

***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.


55 posted on 05/31/2015 9:37:41 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

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...?


56 posted on 05/31/2015 9:39:06 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Cool thanks! that’s been a stick in my craw for years. I hope amazon has it


57 posted on 05/31/2015 9:42:40 PM PDT by WhatNot (Many who say "I'll accept Jesus at the eleventh hour" die at 10:30)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Got it. It’s not the one. No blowguns. No two little cannon.


58 posted on 05/31/2015 9:44:33 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

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.


59 posted on 05/31/2015 9:56:21 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Is it Aguirre, the Wrath of God ?
60 posted on 05/31/2015 10:10:53 PM PDT by matt1234
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