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Do movies and TV shows really have to pay to show popular soda/beer/candy whatever brands being used by their characters? For example, in Employee Of The Month, a few guys are drinking out of cans with plain paper lapels that just say "BEER" on them, so that the can's real label is covered. Also, if this is true, why do the companies dislike their label being shown without permission? Isn't it free advertising for them if their name is shown in a movie? Answer
Does anyone know the name of this black and white movie? A cowboy has himself thrown in jail to help a young man (his son?) escape. The man doesn't want to escape, so the cowboy breaks out and rides off to Canada until the heat dies down. It was a light-hearted movie with a depressing ending: just when he crosses the border, his horse is hit by a car. The police shoot his maimed horse and the film ends with the cowboy being loaded into an ambulance. Answer
I am looking for the name of a movie, I think from the 80s, where a man wants a child, but is not married. He has a woman agree to have the child, she moves in with him. They don't get along, cause his is very picky and watches everything she does, eats, etc. There was a housekeeper who was nice to the woman. They end up falling in love. Man has dark hair, woman blonde and I think set in NYC. Can you tell me the name of the movie? Answer
I saw this episode of a TV show once, although maybe it was a movie on TV. A woman's mother had been murdered. There were flashbacks that showed the woman as a girl, and her mother was abusive to her. The flashbacks showed the mother threatening to kill the girl's cat (while the girl was sitting at a piano), saying the girl looked like a "fat little pig" in a certain dress, and the girl hiding in a dark room (I think a cellar or garage) while her mother was looking for her. There was also a scene where the adult woman finds a teddy bear that she owned as a child in her mother's house. Does anyone know what TV show or movie this was? Answer
I saw a movie many years ago, a cheap 80's movie I believe. It involved two cops undercover in some sort of death match fighting scheme. One cop had a ponytail and was a martial artsy character, the other cop was more of a "bar fighter". The end of the movie has the martial arts cop getting his head cut off by the death match champion and the other cop beating the champion later on. This is not Kickboxer, and neither of the two cops are any famous or semi-famous actors that I know of. Please help me figure out what movie this is, it's very frustrating. Thank you. Answer
I am looking for the name of a film probably made in the 40s or 50s.The final scene shows a blonde haired woman looking up at a house on fire in which a dark haired woman is trapped. It's not "Rebecca" or "Jane Eyre". Answer
OK, It was a movie I watched a long time ago and I don't remember a whole lot about it, but there is one scene where these kids collect a lot of sweat from people and then drink it. They thought it was going to be good for some reason, but it wasn't (of course). This is driving me mad. Answer
There was a 60's or 70's Saturday morning cartoon series about a superhero (something like a Captain Planet) that was made of weed or grass or something similar. It wasn't controversial because no one caught on to it's drug-overtones. A clip was featured in a compilation documentary of controversial or banned cartoons narrated by (I think) Bob Barker. It might have seen it on YouTube. Answer
In the 90's, I watched a drama on either the BBC or ITV, set during World War 2, about the story of black American GI's stationed in England and one of them starts a relationship with an English girl, who then gets pregnant. I think the girl is already married, and the GI dies. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Answer
I am trying to think of a movie from the 80's/ early 90's about a boy, and a gem or ring of some sort, an elevator, some kind of underwater place, and there is a talking turtle in it. I believe he is trying to keep a bridge from being built. If anyone knows what I am talking about it would help. Thank you. Answer
Does anyone know the title of a movie where the main character is pregnant in prison and in labor for much of the movie, but unseen? The husband is there worrying about her, and the doctor's tell him they can either save the baby or her - he says save his wife. Then, the woman wakes up, the doctor's ask her what to do, and she tells them to save the baby. I think the movie was in black & white, so it is really old. It is not Women's Prison or Caged. Thank you for answering this. Answer
In one of Pixar's first computer animated short films, "Red's Dream", A jazz score composed by David Slusser constantly plays at the background. What is the name of that score? Answer
I am looking for the title of a movie that I probably saw in the 90s. A lot of scenes are in a cabin in the snowy mountains that was owned by a girl's mother or aunt who passed away, I think. The special thing about the movie is the interior of the cabin/house. The rooms each have their respective colour. I remember an entirely red and an entirely green room. Even the girls inhabiting the rooms wore red or green clothes, respectively. Anyone remember this? Thanks a lot for your help. Answer
I would like to know the name of a movie. It's a foreign film from about the mid nineties. The plot was basically that a series of murders was going down in an apartment block and that a man was a suspect. The lead female was attracted to this man (I think she was a therapist) and didn't believe him to be the killer. Towards the end she provides a solid alibi for him in that he was upstairs typing all night. The ending of the movie finds our heroine finding a tape in his apartment - a tape of him typing. She realises he is the killer and a fight ensues. Please help. Answer
Tough one here: I only saw a brief movie trailer for this film back in the 70's or 80's. It was a British film that showed a man in a cap and gown (similiar to a graduation outfit) running down a street from a high angle (from a rooftop?) He freezes in mid-run while a voice-over says, "See this man? He...(don't remember). Very good. Carry on". Then it showed this same man teaching in a room of lovely college women. He leans over a desk and asks a very pretty blonde a question. She answers with the title character's name which is spelled out on the screen, letter by letter. The professor then shouts, "Correct!" and turns around, very happy with what she said. Answer
Does anyone remember a short film in which the premise is that a sidewalk becomes a keyboard? As far as I can recall, a man discovers that when walking across a certain sidewalk it plays like a piano. Then various people join in to play songs on it. It was probably from the early 1970s, and filmed either in the UK or Europe. It couldn't have been longer than 15-20 minutes. Answer
I saw an animated film, must have been about 1995 on TV with, amongst other characters, a dog who ends up in the sewers being consumed by 'grey stuff'. Anyone above ground who touches them also gets covered in it. Can't remember any more than that but would like to know the film. Answer
In the 50's my sister and I saw a black and white Western. Standard formula - good guys, bad guys, Indians, railroad, miners etc. There was a scene in the movie where a grizzled type character gave a group of Indians who were high on "fire water" sticks of dynamite in place of cigars and then snuck away. You hear a loud boom in the background making you think the Indians tried to smoke the "cigars". We cannot remember the name of this movie or who the actors in it were. Can someone please help? Answer
I remember watching a movie in the 90s - it started with some kind of party and basically this guy has written a novel about pirates or something like that. And somehow him and his friends end up inside his novel and they are captured by pirates. I remember the pirates were fighting against some sort of Spanish troops/Spanish empire. It was all set in a jungle. And I think somehow the guys help the pirates and then escape and find a chest in a tunnel. It seems really weird but it's a great movie and I really wanna know what it's called. I have a feeling it is based on a novel. The movie's name was the same name as the novel in the film. It was one word and I think it was in Latin. I think the word ended in "icus". Answer
This is a b/w film, 50's/60's. A group of people are in everglade-type surroundings. One woman gets attacked by a snapping turtle, one gets chased up a tree by an alligator, and a guy gets an earwig in his ear, goes into a fever, and after days the earwig comes out of his ear. But he's told it was a female and it laid eggs. This is a movie, not Night Gallery-The Caterpillar Thanks anyway. Answer

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