" Cheaper by the dozen " did any film leave a lasting memory for you ?

As a child I remember being taken to the cinema to see The Searchers. The scene where the little girl is taken really scared me. I can still conjure up that feeling now.
As an adult, Soldier Blue left me shocked. No one in the cinema moved for a minute when it ended.

Empire of the Sun really moved me, I was a young Mum and pregnant when I first saw it, I couldn’t compute how the parents and child could ever pick up where they had left off.

The story was really about loss of innocence and was based on J G Ballard’s experiences of Shanghai under Japanese occupation.

I've just remembered one! Psycho. It was on tv and I begged my parents to let me watch it. I was around 12 but very precocious. They let me stay up to see it. Apparently I seemed very nonchalant about it. However once I was in bed it was different. There was a creaking noise outside my door, the door was thrown open, and there stood my dad in mum's dressing gown and a blonde wig holding a kitchen knife! He told me later that he hadn't realised how many swear words I knew.

BBJS DD watched Jaws on television with us when she was about 7. Her comment was "Ooh scrambled man for tea!"

Grandmabatty

I've just remembered one! Psycho. It was on tv and I begged my parents to let me watch it. I was around 12 but very precocious. They let me stay up to see it. Apparently I seemed very nonchalant about it. However once I was in bed it was different. There was a creaking noise outside my door, the door was thrown open, and there stood my dad in mum's dressing gown and a blonde wig holding a kitchen knife! He told me later that he hadn't realised how many swear words I knew.

That’s awful! Wonder you weren’t traumatised for life.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas at the end when his little friend was caught up with those heading for the gas chamber--horrifying really. I'd seen it a couple of times and it was on not so long ago.

Calendergirl I was made of strong stuff! ?

Schindler's List, The Killing Fields and Doctor Zhivago all left a lasting impression. However, I just loved ET and would happily watch it again and again. I obviously lack any sophistication!

"The vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, the chalice from the palace holds the brew that is true."
Danny Kaye in The Court Jester. One of the funniest scenes I've ever seen.

Deadly Pursuit with Sidney Poitier playing the lead detective. He was about 60 then but still looked good. I wish it would be put on Netflix or Amazon now. It was so exciting.

Witzend like you the cinema was a very rare treat, and I was completely blown away by Fantasia. For me it was the Sorcerer's Apprentice scene and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy with the waltzing elephants that I remember best.

I was around eight or nine when I went with my Mum and Dad to see Carve her name with pride. I remember crying at the end in the scene with Violette Szabo's daughter.

Around the same time we also went to see The inn of the sixth happiness. I was very moved by the ending when the children reach the end of their journey across the mountains singing This Old Man.

I all recall a film called A kid for two farthings which I think was quite sad.

The Sound of Music. Taken to the Cinema to see this when I was 4

In 1974 I met a young woman who had been a child extra in the Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Although living in East Anglia at the time she had grown up in north Wales where the scenes of the children crossing the mountains were filmed. Her mother was Welsh and her father Chinese.

Where did I meet her? We were in adjacent beds of a maternity unit. Funny the things you talk about in the early stages of labour.

It has always been one of my favourite films. I think I was 12 when my parents took me to see it and I too jumped out of my skin at the beheading scene.