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Aspectifer
Since: Apr, 2014
Aspectifer
Since: Apr, 2014
19th Aug, 2016 04:18:18 AM
1) Has been solved on the IMDB 'Need to Know' board. It is the The Longest Hundred Miles
. The film is set in the Pacific theatre during the Japanese invasion of the Phillipines and the POW in question is actually Japanese.
Two moments of nightmare fuel from my childhood. I saw both of these on British TV somewhere between the late 70s to mid 80s.
1) A World War II film, in colour, probably from the 1960s or early 1970s. A group of German or Italian Prisoners of War are being marched along a road escorted by Allied soldiers (I can't remember whether they were British or American). I remember trees on the far side of the road. They come across a group of children playing with a grenade. One of the POWs breaks out of the ranks, picks up the grenade, runs out of frame and you hear the grenade explode. It's possible I may have it the wrong way round and it's Allied POWs guarded by Axis soldiers.
2) A Western, again in colour, possibly from the 1950s or 60s. A group of settlers in a wagon train have stopped for the night. Native Americans attack, the first you know of this being one of the female settlers getting an arrow straight through the heart. It was so sudden and unexpected I remember finding it quite upsetting.
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