I remember seeing in the early 1970's a children's movie about a young boy who befriends a lion and his owner, an old man. In the story, a serial killer is murdering construction workers and throwing their bodies off a cliff. At the end of the movie, the lion has the serial killer trapped between two large rocks, the lion lunges, and the serial killer falls to his death off the cliff. Yes, it was a children's movie! Anybody know of it?
Scott215
28th Aug 2022
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Answer: Going to throw this out there, even though I don't think there was the serial killer scene. "Napoleon and Samantha" (1972), which was Jodie Foster's film debut, is about a boy, Napoleon, who adopts a lion (with his grandfather) from an old circus clown. The boy's grandfather dies and he and his friend Samantha go looking for someone. There's a scene where the boy nearly falls off a cliff, but the lion saves him. At the end, they find the man they're looking for at his cabin. When he leaves to find Samantha's parents, he leaves them with a man who turns out to be a dangerous psychopath, but he's the one who ends up saving the children.
11th Oct 2020
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I saw an old black and white movie back in the early seventies on a late, late show that involved a woman going to the hospital for a face lift. I remember two scenes vividly: one where the doctor and his team cut, then peel off her face, and a scene where a woman (the same?) wakes up with surgical clamps and forceps still attached to her face, and she is confused and frightened, calling for a nurse's help. Anybody have an idea what was the title of this old movie?
Answer: Sounds like the 1960 French film "Les Yeux sans visage" (Eyes Without a Face). The American release version was named "The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus."
7th Sep 2017
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This is a TV movie from the early or mid seventies. A lady is in a sculptor's loft with several disassembled statues. A head of a statue sitting on a table starts speaking, saying to her, "you killed me, Rachel, you killed me!" She screams, picks up the head and smashes it on the floor. Anybody have an idea what the name of this movie was or who was in it?
Answer: It's an ABC Movie of the Week horror called Sweet, Sweet Rachel (1971), starring Alex Dreier, Pat Hingle, Louise Latham and Stefanie Powers, Scene head (46:59) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5dWE5oyJNw.
1st Mar 2016
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This is from an early to mid-1970's movie. A woman in a sheer dress is walking along a beach with a green-colored man with green curly hair on a leash. She stops, removes her necklace that has a large diamond on it and gives it to the green man, who then walks out to a rock outcropping and looks at the sun through the diamond. Anybody have an idea as to what was the name of this film?
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Answer: You're right, there was no serial killer, but he was a dangerous criminal wanted by the police. It was a Disney film. The man, the two kids are looking for, is a long-lost distant cousin of the boy. The only one he can turn to after being orphaned. When the cousin goes looking for the grandmother of the girl, the woman mistakenly believes he kidnapped the kids and calls the police. At the station the cousin sees a wanted poster of his friend, who he left in charge of the kids. He tries to convince them of this, but don't listen, he escapes and leads the police to his cabin in the forest. He finds the kids unharmed and the police take the man away. FYI, the long-lost cousin is played by Michael Douglas.