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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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KEYWORDS: 1950movies; movies; oldmovies
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To: ClearCase_guy

Oh now that is just ridiculous.....if you are going to make that dumb guess at least put in a sarcasm signal


61 posted on 05/31/2015 10:12:58 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: matt1234

I got that one too. It was mad years later after the one I saw.


62 posted on 05/31/2015 10:20:41 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Peter O’Toole in Lord Jim.


63 posted on 05/31/2015 10:39:58 PM PDT by Benito Cereno
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Or Murphy’s Law, also Peter O’Toole.


64 posted on 05/31/2015 10:42:42 PM PDT by Benito Cereno
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To: Benito Cereno

Murphy’s War


65 posted on 05/31/2015 10:43:42 PM PDT by Benito Cereno
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Keep watching Baltimore, that scene will run again soon.


66 posted on 05/31/2015 10:50:59 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Perdogg

99% sure thats not it. In all honesty chopping off limbs wasn’t something done in the movies back then. I’ve seen ZULU a half dozen times.


67 posted on 05/31/2015 11:22:01 PM PDT by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: SamAdams76
I was haunted by the end of a movie I saw as a child but for years, I never that that movie was.

I was watching a TV movie in the 1970s when my parents made me go to bed. I have tried to figure out the name for years.

It was based in a big city like New York. Some type of contagious condition started going around that caused people to give up smoking, drinking and other bad habits. The politicians had to find a cure because the reduction in tax revenues from sin taxes was making the government go bankrupt.

It was a comedy; no one I have spoken with has ever recognized the description.

68 posted on 05/31/2015 11:42:04 PM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

‘______________vile language.’
And the sex.
I’ll take the language - one can always lower the volume, too.


69 posted on 06/01/2015 12:15:07 AM PDT by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: Red Badger

‘Red Badge of Courage’??………..

Aw c’mon - that’s Audie Murphy’s movie - were there arms ‘lost - ?’


70 posted on 06/01/2015 12:19:47 AM PDT by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: fireman15

“What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?” (1968). starred George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore.


71 posted on 06/01/2015 12:24:03 AM PDT by greene66
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Another long-shot... how about “Santiago” (1956), starring Alan Ladd and Lloyd Nolan as gun-runners in South America? Vague recollections of jungle scenes and such. Haven’t seen it in over thirty years, though. Seems to have become rather rare.


72 posted on 06/01/2015 12:26:58 AM PDT by greene66
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To: SamAdams76

I was haunted by a few movies as a child.
Instead of getting a baby-sitter, my parents took my brother and I to the movies. In the 1940’s and ‘50’s . . .
One scene that bugged me at the time was water rising in a tall bell tower a person (woman?) was climbing. The tower was on a strip of land, exposed and reachable at low tide. The woman may have been a nun, climbing to the cloistered area - ?
For some nutty reason, I think Tyrone Power was in it.

Another was a war movie. In the movie I think ‘we’ were fighting the Japanese. Inside a hut or something, maybe on an island, a G.I. straightened a crooked picture on the wall. When he did that, the hut blew up - scared me to death - - -
Have never looked at a picture without remembering that. Altho I do have a habit it of straightening pictures in friends’ homes!!!
I’m still here - - -


73 posted on 06/01/2015 12:34:09 AM PDT by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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?

74 posted on 06/01/2015 12:56:14 AM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Folks ask about my politics. I say: I dont belong to any organized political party. I'm a Republican)
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To: USARightSide
I was haunted by a few movies ...

No, you don't understand. He's asking for help in hunting down the movie, not haunting.

75 posted on 06/01/2015 12:58:29 AM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Folks ask about my politics. I say: I dont belong to any organized political party. I'm a Republican)
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To: Irish Eyes

Mark


76 posted on 06/01/2015 12:59:35 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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.

77 posted on 06/01/2015 1:29:49 AM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Folks ask about my politics. I say: I dont belong to any organized political party. I'm a Republican)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

I looked back. It/he says: ‘I was haunted - ‘

I’m not getting the joke, if this is one - - sorry - !

Of course he’s ‘hunting’ for a movie.

‘Potato/potahhtoe, tomato/tomahhto - - -’


78 posted on 06/01/2015 1:31:53 AM PDT by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: Heart-Rest

Would “The Crawling Hand” be out of place on that list?


79 posted on 06/01/2015 1:54:57 AM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: greene66
“Seven Days to Noon” (1950) is the name of that film.

Netflix has no record of it. Wikipedia says it's a 1950 film. Thanks for giving me that info.

80 posted on 06/01/2015 4:13:38 AM PDT by laweeks
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