[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If anyone recognizes this old movie let me know.

[SamAdams76]

Hopefully you find out what that movie is.

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.

[Fiji Hill]

Could it be East of Sumatra?

[Heart-Rest]

Here's a few you may want to investigate...

"The One-Armed Bandit"

"Disarming", "Disarmed", "Disarm"

"The Arm" (1)

"The Arm" (2)

"Armless"

"One Armed Man"

"One Armed Hero"

"The One Armed Hero"

"The New One-Armed Swordsman"

"The Good Left Arm"

(Not bloody likely though.)

:-)

[matt1234]

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

[WhatNot]

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.

[matt1234]

Is it Aguirre, the Wrath of God ?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Keep watching Baltimore, that scene will run again soon.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Perhaps one of the many Safari movies they used to film in Tanganyika?

Remember how in the 50's and early 60's we used to see a lot of movies with credits listing Tanganyika as the prime filming location? From Stu Granger in King Solomon's Mines, on down to John Wayne in Hatari with "The Baby Elephant Walk"....

Then all of a sudden in around '63 or '64, Hollywood COMPLETELY stopped filming in Tanganyika.

Without googling the history of the place, does anyone remember why this happened?

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Weren't there poison-dart blowguns next to a jungle river in Raiders of the Lost Arm?

:-) Before doing an exhausting/exhaustive search on imDB, you might browse some short lists like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adventure_films_of_the_1950s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adventure_films_of_the_1940s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_set_in_jungles

Here's a possible lead: "One movie that comes to mind is "Green Hell." It starred Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as an explorer leading a team of archeologists, etc. into the Amazon basin near Tabatinga to look for Inca gold. They came under fire by Indians armed with bows and blowguns with poisoned darts."

Good luck.

[Oatka]

Dunno the name, but believe it was part of a Brian Williams bio.

(sorry)