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Film: One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing

A 1975 film set in London in the 1920s. Lord Southmere steals the "Lotus X" formula from China on microfilm, then hides it in a dinosaur skeleton in the Natural History Museum. He then loses his memory, and can't remember exactly where he hid it, so a group of nannies try to find it before the Chinese can reclaim it.

This is one of the horde of live action adventure/comedy films that Disney was apt to make in the sixties and seventies (Others include Race to Witch Mountain, Condorman, Follow Me Boys, and a whole slew of films starring a young Kurt Russell.)

This film contains examples of:

Easy Amnesia Lord Southmere keeps getting clonked on the head by bricks, causing him to lose/regain his memory.
Mistaken for Spies Lord Southmere keeps insisting that he's not a spy, just an ordinary businessman. However, nobody else believes him; as his (former) nanny points out, he would say that if he was a spy.
Not My Driver Lord Southmere is kidnapped by the Chinese.
Parasol of Pain Lord Southmere's umbrella is apparently a gun in disguise, although we only see him threaten someone, and not actually fire it.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Films of the 1970s

Picnic at Hanging Rock

alternative title(s): One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

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