Figure 1.--This Turkish film shows schoolboys wearing smocks with Peter Pan collars. Also notice the plain yoke of the smock and extensive smocking with a gathered waist and pocket. |
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These are movies I have noted, but don't have the title for. Usually the nationality of the film is obvious. Thus I have organized the references by country to help find the missing title. Any information you might have on these films would be appreciated. Also let me know if you recall seeing a film, but can not remember the title. we will add it to our list.
The children in a village have set a fire and destroyed crops.
Boy raised on a farm.
Two boys have just been spanked. They are both angry with a girl who must have told on them. As they talk you can hear her playing her violin to a small audience. One complains about "Little Miss ???, always so proper. It was none of her business."
A young new lady teacher is confronted with some little terrors in a very rustic rural school. She finally begins to take m,atters in hand. The mother comes to see what all the hollering is about, but decides not to intervene and to let the teacher establish her authority.
There are only a few English films that we have been unable to identify by title.
A British reader remembers seeing a movie revolving around a 7-year old boy named Billy, but doies not recall the title. The film was set in 1961. Billy believes his next door neighbour is an alien. The contemporary costuming in the film seems quite accurate as is often the case with British films made during this era. There are a lot of street scenes giving a good idea of what Ebngland looked like in the 1960s and how people dressed.
A HBC reader remembers watching an English film about a 11-year old schoolboy who sees a miracle happen in a small town. This film was made about 1992-94 I think. He had to go to a wedding and missed it. He caught the last 2 minutes when the boy is sent away to a prepschool and he appears unhappy about wearing grey shorts to his new school. He feels he's a big boy now and should not suffer what he sees as the the indignaty of wearing little kids prep-schoolo shorts to junior secondary school.
Some sort of Salvador Dahli fantasy. A line of children is seen in angel wings. A paper is pictured inscribed "Chante de Maldorar."
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A reader has mentioned a German film to us. He does not know what the title was, but he knows that that it was made in 1958. We are not sure what the plot was, but many children were involved showing what German boys were wearing in the 1950s. A famous Berlin boy choir features in the film.
A HBC reader provides us a frame from an East German (DDR) movie. The image is from "The GDR"--a monthly magazine issued in USSR. The movie itself was shot about 1975, the plot is on late 1920s before the NAZI take over. The clothig looks to HBC more like the early 1930s. It shows a classroom scene, but I am unsure to what extent the film isabout school. Some of the boys in the class wear sailor suits.
PBS carried several German movies dealing with the Holocaust. Many of them dealt with boys or had boy characters. Unfortunately I didn't note the titles. The ones I remember:
Unknown titles: Dealt with life in a tenement and how the anti NAZI families suffer and finally they and their children have to yield to the NAZIs.
Unknown titles: Film about one family in Rowstock. The family has two sons one who is critical of the NAZIs. Both wind up fighting in the War.
Unknown titles: Color movie in which a German policeman comes home to find that his new stepson was staying out late. The boy is about 10 and dressed in shorts. The boy objects to his new father's authority.
Unknown titles: School boys wear short pants and long stockings. Two boys in class are punished for fighting, I think there names are Gruber and Magnus. One boy is praised for not allowing himself to be bullied, but is still punished for violated school rules. When the boy returns to his seat which I think he shares with the boy he was fighting, one tries to make up, but the other is still angry.
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We have noted a few Itlaian films tht we have been unable to identify.
A HBC reader reports, "Here are some stills from an Italian film (figure 3). Sorry I cant provide any information about the title. The film appeared the other morning on an Italian satellite channel and seemed to be a short as there soon followed another film also black and white set in another era. I tried looking at teletext but could not find the page with the film info in fact couldnt fathom anything about their channel."
Color movie in Italian (I think, perhaps Padre Padrone) (1977) about a father and son. I think that the boy's name is Gavino. The film is a rather sad story about an bright, but illiterate Sardinian boy. Although he is brutalized by his peasant father, still grows up to master Greek and Latin and graduate college. Soome reviewers were very disappointed in the film. One reviwer writes, "Even sadder than the film, it is uninvolving and curiously forgettable." It is based on an autobiographical book by Gavino Ledda.
Unfortunately I didn't catch the title. It is about a Japanese family with two teenagers. The younger boy is having trouble at school, both academically and with bullies. He is probably about 15. His father hires a new tutor who brings the boy around. Nothing of great interest. Actually I found it a bit hard to follow. The tutor at first seemed overly interesting in his new student. He slaps him around a bit to get him to study. In one scene the boy comes home after being bullied. The tutor comes home and finds him in bed. He offers to show him how to fight. In the film, he wears long pants except for gym at school. After a gym class the other boys shove him into the girls locker room while they are dressing. The school depicted was not the orderly Japanese school that I would have imagined. I have read though, that peer pressure is used in Japan to force children to conform and that bullying is a special problem for children that are different in some way. A HBC reader tlls us, "This Japanese movie sounds like Kazoku gêmu, which was released in 1983.
Color picture in Spanish which I think deals with a test of wills between a boy named Pepe about 11 and his new step-father. The boy is a very talented little actor, especially his expressions are marvelous. He wears shorts, although I think some children appear in school smocks.
This Spanish movie was in color and featured a boy about 12-13 years old with longish blond hair. I thought at first he was a girl, but as he never wears dresses, I think he must be a boy. He appears on the beach with a sissy looking outfit and sandals. Later he plays with a friend dressed in long shorts and white knee socks. More often, though he appears in longs. His parents who are separating call him Bami. He has a collie dog called Philipe. Most of his friends pictured in the movie wear longs, but at least one also wears short pants. (I didn't see the beginning.) He is rather accident prone, first locking himself in a trunk with a friend and later falling off a cliff. That accident brigs his parents together. The TV guide reported the time slot as "El Caballo Que Canta," but I think this must have been a mistake. The movie sounded dubbed, at least I don't think it was the boy's own voice. Strangely a lot of the credits were for Italians and they were in English. Perhaps it was an Italian film dubbed into Spanish. Some of the interiors were shot in Italy. The buildings and scenery, however, looked Spanish to me.
To protest being treated as little, immature children, a class of boys and girls in their mid-teens find a novel way of demonstrating that they are mature.
I know nothing about this black and white film except that it is a Turkish film, perhaps made about the 1970s or 80s. Turkish boys are pictured in school smocks.
I know nothing about this color film except that it is a Turkish film, probably made in the 1970s or 80s. Turkish boys are pictured in school smocks. The smocks are quite similar, but closeups reveal some differences in the smocks.
Thanks to our HBC readers, we have made considerable progress in finding the titles for several unidentified American films.
Deals with a black family and a boy who was always getting into trouble. His mother is into some cult religious group. The mother ties her best to get the get the "badness" out of him. A HBC reader tells us that this title was probably "A Hero Ain't Nothing But
a Sandwich".
Father decides todeal with his 10-year old bratty son, saying "You're going to mind me now."
An aunt tells her nephew that he is invisible. Believing it, the boy goes around without his clothes so they don't give him away. His aunt, however, was of course only fooling him. There is an American film, "The Invisible Boy" (1957), but I am not sure this is it. The plot here sounds a bit different. A HBC reader tells that this is definitely a different film.
Fred McMurry movie. Two spoiled boys in Indian head dresses are involved. One is called Charlie.
An Indiana family tours France. If I remember right, this was a Jimmy Stewart film. The younger boy is played by Disney regular Kevin Cocoran. He wears long pants except for one beach scene. The tidbit showing Fremch boys' clothing was at the end at an open air dance. If you look closely you can see a little French boy dancing in short shorts. A HBC reader tells me that the title is "Bon Voyage".
(US) Dick Van Patten movie about a family adopting kids. In one scene the black boy who proved difficult has just filled a big room with soap suds.
An obnoxious boy genius confronts a doctor rudely. He is only about 8 or so and wears a short pants suit affair.
I think the title is something like "The Trials of Jake Delancy", a rather disturbing film. A family (mother, daughter, and son) has been taken hostage by a deranged man who speaks partly in Spanish. David Elliot plays a boy of about 11 or 12 years old. The deranged man makes the boy dance on a table without his clothes. A HBC reader tells me that the title is, "The Possession of Joel Delaney".
Movie about an invisible boy and robots. The irritates his parents who I think are upset with his experiments.
I don't know the title, but I saw a nice clip of a Fred Astaire movie. He is in a musical instrument store doing one of his dance steps in front of a set of drums. A boy and his mother? are in the background. I thought it was Jackie Cooper, but he wasn't in any of the Astaire movies. The boy has a very wide white collar which he wears with a bow. I'd say he is about twelve. Madingly he stays in back of the drums and you cant see what else he is wearing. Finally he comes out where you can see him. He is wearing either very full knickers or bloomers, hard to tell in the brief spot I saw. The knickers/bloomers are just above his knees. He wears dark knee socks with his outfit. I didn't have a chance to note the shoes. From the looks of the movie it was made in the 1930s. I have since learned that it is "Easter Parade".
Lovely Shirley Temple movie. Shirley has lots of friend in some big city. She befriends a sissy boy. For some reason the boy needs some regular clothes. She makes the local bully who was teasing him change clothes with him. The bully looks sweet in the sissy outfit. I think it might be "Little Miss Broadway."
Movie about a 13 year old sent to his grandmother in the Urals when the Germans invade. As his father departs for the font he is pictured with his violin in a nice sailor suit. He gets off the train, however, and head back to the war. For the rest of the movie he is in longs. The move is rather melodramatic.
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