The purpose of this discussion is to pick the brains of all the nitpickers out there when you can't remember the title of a movie. If you can remember enough about the movie to give a useful description, then put it up here and ask if anyone can supply the name. Of course I'm having this problem myself so here's your chance to help me. Thanks in advance.
Genre:Science fiction
The movie opens with a secret agent/investigator racing along a futuristic highway. His vehicle crashes & he is fatally injured. His body is taken to his employer's lab/hospital. There his brain is stimulated by a device that brings back his memories of the recent past. At the end of the movie I think he dies.
I saw this movie back in the late sixties & haven't seen it since. The miniature effects of the crash were very obvious with unnatural looking lighting & the flames at the crash not being in scale.
While the plot may seem similar to Project X with Christopher George, I don't think this is the same movie. I saw Project X a few years ago and it just didn't seem right & there was no vehicle crash at the beginning as I recall.
I did try using the extended/power search at the IMDB and couldn't find anything that seemed to match.
So, does this ring a bell with anyone?

I saw a movie a long time ago and I wish I could remember what it was. This girl in a yellow rubber raincoat was being chased by a guy on a boat at Niagra Falls. She ends up going overboard. The guy tries to save her but the hood of her coat comes off and she falls. Anyone have any idea what this movie might be?

Well, D. W. this discussion seems to have gone nowhere.
If you still need to know the title of your movie, I reccommend trying the Internet Movie Data Base.
In their message board section there is a category called "I Need to Know" for questions like this.

There was a movie about a flying saucer crashing into the Captial Building in Washington DC after it was hit with some kind of beam manned by some scientists.

Was it "Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers" or
something else?

Someone please help me `cause this is doing my head in...
I`m trying to remember the name (and some more details!) of a film that I saw circa late 1980`s. All I can remember is that there was a ghost (with a moustache?) and at least 2 male teenagers. The ghost had to fight another ghost at the end and the (two?) teenagers thought their ghost had been killed until he turned up at the end driving a taxi.

Now, I`m pretty sure I didn`t just imagine this film so someone please help me!

Actully, I think this was a TV show, but here goes... I remember a show where this guy got a special suit from aliens that made him into a superhero. However, he lost the instruction manuel and couldn't operate it correctly.

Merat, the show was indeed a series, "The Greatest American Hero" starring William Katt.


Boy, this topic didn't take off like I hoped.
Only 7 messages in over a year and 3 are by me.

Zorro, I remember you. You called yourself "John Smith" when someone called Graeme took the "Zorro" name. Who was Graeme? Was he the same Graeme from "Your favorite Star Trek Songs And Rhymes"?

D.W., I think the pic you are talking about was "Last Embrace", from 1979, starring Roy Scheider and Janet Margolin.

Thanks, Butch

Here's one: an old b&w horror or maybe cop film, where the only thing I can recall is a guy being chased thru a graveyard and he either trips or is knocked down by the person chasing him, who then stabs the dude with a pitchfork and the dude dies belly down with his eyes open. I remember asking my dad if that really happens and he said yes.

Then there's another old b&w horror film that I don't remember the plot to at all but I think there was a cottage by the ocean or maybe a castle, with a staircase circling up and over a fireplace, there was a tall, slim man (who looked remarkedly like an uncle of mine, but wasn't) and a pretty woman who were maybe lovers. All I can recall is that he was beheaded somehow and her holding his head, which was still alive and his body walked in and she slowly put the head back on top of his body, and then he shriveled and/or turned to dust and then died, since I guess he was overdue for death to claim him. I think that was at the end of the film, and it's been so long I don't remember things about it very well. I saw it as a kid and it sort of creeped me out, but not too much.

I'm trying to remember film I saw on UK TV in late 1996 which had an American woman visit an Australia & seduce almost all the members of the family she was staying with. It also had a plot with a business deal with some Japanese.

Hey, John A. Lang! Yes, that was 'Earth Versus the Flying Saucers.' (see your 27 July 2000 post)
Another saucer in that film crashed into the Washington Monument.

I wish they put that one on DVD!

Believe it or not, I'm waiting for some of the "giant bug" flicks ('Them,' 'The Dealdy Mantis,' etc) to come out on DVD...cheesy, but fun. Was the giant bug flick about the big scorpion called 'The Black Scorpion,' or was it called something else? (A model kit based on the premise was released in the 1970's and re-released just a couple years ago, wherein the beast was called a "rampaging scorpion," but I don't believe that was the movie title.)

It was The Black Scorpion, Craig. Check it out here. http://us.imdb.com/Details?0050197

Thanks, Butch!

I hope somebody out there can help me with this.
a few years ago on, I think it was the WGN network, there was a late night show called Monstervision. Which had old horror movies, (most of them were pretty bad).
Now this show had a really off the wall host who would make comments and tell jokes before commercial breaks, and a few minites before the show ended.
now I think his name was Billy-joe bob briggs, or something equilly "hayseed".
anyone heard of this?
if so whatever happened to the show?

Joe Bob Briggs is a character created by John Bloom. Bloom is an investigative reporter from Texas who, in adition to investigative journalism he took to writing a humor column called "joe-bob's drive in reviews". In the column he wrote reveiws of b-movies using the criteria that b-movie fans care about (rather than plot & character he reviewed stuff like how many body parts were severed and how many naked breasts appeared in the movie) The character became so popular that he has appeared (as the character) in several documentarys about horror films and has hosted a show on TMC (for which he earned two ACE award nominations) and later on TNT (MonsterVision). He has also writen several books (mostly humor books as Joe-Bob, but also an investigative book about a famous Texas murder.)
You can get his filmography on the IMDB at:

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bloom,+John+I.

and his current website is:

http://www.joebobbriggs.com/

If you look at the 1st message on this thread you'll see about 2 years ago I asked about an SF movie from the 60's I couldn't identify.

I recently found a good description of the movie and was able to identify it as;

Toter Sucht Seinen Mörder, Ein (1962) also known as:
The Brain
Vengeance
A Dead Man Seeks His Murderer
Over My Dead Body

It's a German film from the 60's loosely based on the Curt Siodmak novel "Donovan's Brain". Some of my recollections about were a bit off,not surprising after 30 years, but this is it.

What movie has the line "The Duck Flies at Midnight"? It came up at work today, and it's driving us crazy!

That's a short drive, isn't it?

Well, yes, but...

Is it the "Howard the Duck" movie?

Never saw it, just guessing.

Be glad you haven't seen it, John. It has a reputation for being one of the worst films of all times for a reason.

According to the Internet Movie Data Base, the taglines for HTD the movie, were "Trapped In a World He Never Made" (which was the phrase used in the original comic book series), "A New Breed of Hero" and "More Fun Than Humanly Possible".

I keep thinking the movie Scott refers to has to do with an airplane of some sort. I'm probably way off base here, though.

Okay, I've been wracking my brain and IMDB, desperately trying to remember this movie.

The plot is a big earthquake hits Seattle (I believe), and an entire 5 or 6-floor apartment building sinks underground instantly, so that the roof is level with the ground. Enter a bunch of rescue workers who break into the building through the roof and try to rescue the people inside before it floods from underneath. Two of the main characters are an old rescue worker and his maverick son, and for some reason my memory suggests that Richard Dean Anderson is in it, or someone who looks similar.

I think it may be a TV movie, and possibly 1994-1997 (I remember seeing it several years ago.)

Help!

Well, according to IMDB, it wasn't RDA.

Okay, I have something that has always driven me crazy. This ought to give away my status as a youngin, but who cares, I'm posting anonymously. I was really young when I saw this on TV, I'm just guessing it was a movie, maybe it was a TV show. I must have seen it anywhere between '85 and '90. I was so little. This had a huge impact on my at the time, scared me half to death. It seems somewhat Lynchian in retrospect. There were a couple of guys in business suits, at some kind of an office, like you might see in a skyscraper or something. One of the guys reaches out as if to hit the other guy, but instead, rips this poor fellows cheek clean off. Underneath there's all the organic mushy stuff that you might expect to find, sans all the gushing blood, plush some rather organic looking gears. The ripee doesn't recoil in pain or horror or anything. Of course take this all with a grain of salt. I have the memory of a lobotomized fly. But does any of this ring a bell at all? I really appreciate you guys just taking the time to read this posting. I love this site! Very smart people here. Have a great day!

Ok, I have one for you guys. I saw this when I was a kid, and have a fond but vague memory of it. Its an old movie, black and white, that stars a comedy team. They are similar to the Marx Brothers, but aren't them. They are in an old, haunted house that they are investigating for some reason. There is a creepy butler and I seem to remember a series of near encounters with various monsters. I THINK the butler was played by a famous monster actor, but I can't be sure. Help me, Nitcentral, you're my only hope!

OK, let's try this again he says on 3rd attempt to post this.
1st possibity: The Gorilla with The Ritz Brothers and Bela Lugosi

2nd possibility:The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters with The Bowery Boys

3rd possibilty: Ghosts on the Loose AKA The East Side Kids Meet Bela Lugosi.

All 3 have elements of what you described. Hope this helps.

An old ww2 flick had the lady passenger in a plane complaining about lousy service, then it got shot down,

a train was on a bridge when it went down in the 50s?, in a driving rainstorm?

and a guy driving his wife crazy with a skeleton head?(Screaming skull?)


and gangster was chasing some guy and told the numbskull driver to go left over a cliff to save a truck driver's life?

D. W, think I saw it on Amc,!,

The Gorilla! Thats it! Thank you SO much, I've been looking for that for years!

Niagra , D.W, got it!, my wife and I even went there, in 92?

Niagara Falls! Sloooowly I turned! Step by step! Inch by inch!

Think that's the remake of the Fly, it had David Hedison., not sure though.

You're welcome, Merat. Glad to be of help.

Some lady secretary in New York scared of
a giant ape? I remember it was a 50s oldie
copied King Kong?

Wasn't there a movie about a town that was terrorized by lightning? I can't remember.

there was an old movie where there was a bunch of airline passengers who got blinded while in flight and the crew couldnt see either they radio for help... anyone might know this?

John, I did a Google search for "town terrorized by lightning" & it came up with a 2001 TV movie called Lightning: Fire From The Sky.

Yeesh! They'll make movies about anything, won't they? What's next a town terrorized by worms... oh, wait a minute...

I think that was it. Thanx.