Lost Theater - What was the name of that movie?

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

This is true.  And so I issue the following lost movie challenge.  I only remember one scene, but it was hilarious.  There was this kung fu master, who got attacked in his kitchen,x and he fought back with chopsticks.

Ah yes, Enter the Tipster.  Not one of Quan's finer works I'm afraid.

Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan-Enter the Tipster

[pate]

Huh, I must've missed the "no neandertals allowed" sign on the way in here.

Where's the "no cussin' & no spittin' on the floor" sign??  Y'all might think of hanging one up...

Sorry, 'bout gettin' my grimy fingerprints on your nice white tablecloths.

I never did feel comfortable in these high-fallutin' upper-crust type places like this no-how.

Stiff collars and starched undies ain't my thing anyhow.

No, don't trouble yourself.  I'll show myself out;  that is if my pea-sized brain can remember the way I came in.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

Huh, I must've missed the "no neandertals allowed" sign on the way in here.

Where's the "no cussin' & no spittin' on the floor" sign??  Y'all might think of hanging one up...

Sorry, 'bout gettin' my grimy fingerprints on your nice white tablecloths.

I never did feel comfortable in these high-fallutin' upper-crust type places like this no-how.

Stiff collars and starched undies ain't my thing anyhow.

No, don't trouble yourself.  I'll show myself out;  that is if my pea-sized brain can remember the way I came in.

No problem.  Just be careful around my croquet game.

Billy Quan - Wickets of Fury

[Camazotz Automat]

Huh, I must've missed the "no neandertals allowed" sign on the way in here.

Where's the "no cussin' & no spittin' on the floor" sign??  Y'all might think of hanging one up...

Sorry, 'bout gettin' my grimy fingerprints on your nice white tablecloths.

I never did feel comfortable in these high-fallutin' upper-crust type places like this no-how.

Stiff collars and starched undies ain't my thing anyhow.

No, don't trouble yourself.  I'll show myself out;  that is if my pea-sized brain can remember the way I came in.

You're fine, pate. I'm just stressing over this Leonard Nimoy sitch.

It cuts to the core of imprinting central.

If only it were Kanye West instead who was making such hospital trips, then I could breathe easy.

[Albemuth]

Lost movie that I remember watching with my Dad maybe 35 years ago…Would be most grateful if someone has a title. It was black & white noir-type movie and I only remember the ending…Disheveled, beat up dude is on foot, walking and needs to get across a bridge/border (Tijuana?) Other people in a car are waiting to intercept/capture walking dude…Things get emotional for the dude then â€" because his dog is (apparently) tied up across the bridge and is whining and crying for walking dude to come and get him…Dude is quite torn up about the dog, so then decides to beat-ass run across the bridge and get his dog….Climax of movie: People in the car waiting hit the gas â€" and run walking dude down…Killing him…(End of movie)….What is the name of this film, anybody?

[pate]

Having never actually found and watched it, I am going to guess that you are talking about the original "Man On Fire" (i.e. the not Denzel Washington version) sounds sort of like that might be it...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093489/

[Camazotz Automat]

I am compelled to cross-post this from another thread, even though it didn't turn out to be a movie, I believe it counts, and we are keeping score.

Sort of.

does anybody know the movie this is from? looks funny. might want to watch it.

It's from a music video by Viva Voce called "From the Devil Himself."

http://videos.antville.org/stories/1408218/

[Camazotz Automat]

I've meant to create this thread for a while.  Despite google, imdb, etc, there remains a handful of films/TV whose titles I cannot locate. I simply don't have enough information to go on, or am not using an efficient search string, or am just damned unlucky.

By describing what I remember, maybe someone will recognize it or somehow locate it.

For my first one, I have precious little information:

I believe this is from the 1960s. This scene occurs at the end of the film. A middle-aged woman and a younger man are having drinks over a coffee table. I believe she was wearing gloves and a mink coat. The woman begins to trace the rim of her glass with a finger in repetitive circles.  I "think" it starts vibrating, making a tone, as it is crystal. The man croaks.

I saw this when perhaps seven or eight years old - the glass making a tone, gloves, etc, can be a bad memory/embellished recall, though I can hear the tone in my head as I type this. 

I want to say that the woman was a "medium" but can't say for sure. I want to say that perhaps she was a "fake medium" and was tying up a loose end by killing her partner.

It created a type of child folklore between my older brother and I. We both misunderstood that she had killed the man by rubbing the rim of the crystal glass, when in fact, surely she had poisoned him.

I've tried for a very long time to find this film.  I believe it was a feature film, not a soap opera scene/television series.

If you're suffering a similar torture, post your lost theater notes here.

My second lost movie:

The setting is the 1960s, New York City or similar. American film.

A young woman is terrorized when she believes she has shot an intruder and/or relative. At one point, the body is hidden on the top of an elevator car and it  travels up and down for a while.  Blood begins to leak into the elevator. The body disappears after that.

In another part, the corpse is placed in a seating position and coated with cement until it looks like a statue.  That statue is dumped into a body of water from a boat.

The whole time, the person she shot is not actually dead and keeps returning to "haunt" her. I believe at one point he wears the bloody sheet that was used to cover him up at the beginning of the story.

I suspect it is a conspiracy to get an inheritance or the control of something. 

The image of the supposed cement encased body being dumped is vivid. I believe I have even seen that particular scene in a book of horror stories.

My memory may have added this: They put flowers on the statue before dropping it into the ocean/lake.

I am fairly confident it was filmed in the 1960s and depicts the same time frame.

This is also my belief about my first lost film listed.

The terror induced by the young man she believes she has shot had a Clockwork Orange tone to it â€" a dangerous thug breaking into a residence, frightening her enough to use a previously gaffed firearm on him.

This movie COULD be one and the same as my first lost movie, and I have divided up the main plot from the ending.  If that is the case, the young man partnered with an older woman, who might have been portraying herself as a psychic medium to "help" the young woman they are driving crazy. Once they succeed in getting rid of the girl, the man is then poisoned by the older woman/psychic/his partner in crime.

The young woman may be forced to kill the man more than once before she loses her mind.  Not sure. In my memory, he sort of looked like Olver Reed, but I've checked Reed's movies with no luck.

No wonder I can't find this thing. I have no actor names. Nothing truly odd enough to pinpoint it. I've tried using the cement coated body in a search string.  I've tried  - horror film elevator insane - etc etc... several key words...  brings up way too many hits for other things....  and then at some point, I use so many key words that I believe describes the movie, it brings up zero hits.

Let's Scare Jessica To Death is often suggested, but that's not it.

These two lost films did indeed turn out to be a single movie.

Games (1967) directed by Curtis Harrington
starring Katharine Ross, James Caan, Simone Signoret, Don Stroud

Sorry it took me two years (almost to the day) to find this, C.A. of the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_(film)

[Robert]

I would leap up to the television set and frantically switch the channels, starting at the VHF (12? channels) then moving on to the UHF (50? channels?) tuning in the 6 to 7 local OTA TV stations trying to catch the beginnings of different television shows with the express intent of hearing as many theme songs as I possibly could.  Man, I still love theme songs.

The theme to Department S stuck with me so well that when I told Damon Lindelof about it (it'd been before his time) as my favorite detective series ever, I even hummed a little of it to him.  Via Michael Giacchino, a snatch of its melody later became one of the delightful allusions Lost made to Department S.  They even worked out a shot that parodied the opening sequence with the logo synched to those notes, and used it in the Swan station instructional film on Lost.

[Robert]

Ah yes, Enter the Tipster.  Not one of Quan's finer works I'm afraid.

Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan-Enter the Tipster

Looks like he was trained in Schtick Fu, as on SCTV.

[ItsOver]

These two lost films did indeed turn out to be a single movie.

Games (1967) directed by Curtis Harrington
starring Katharine Ross, James Caan, Simone Signoret, Don Stroud

Sorry it took me two years (almost to the day) to find this, C.A. of the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_(film)

I've never heard of this film.  Wait, what???

"The film was given a belated VHS release by Gaiam, Inc. in 1995."