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Can You Name This Film You can remember the plot briefly but can't recollect the films name?


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Old 18-07-2008, 08:27 AM
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I hope someone can help me with finding the name of a black and white film I remember watching on TV as a youngster: all I remember is a guy being put to sleep by an strange ageing dentist to the sound of classical music piece Blue Danube (the main them tune to Space Odyssey 2001). I was very young so it is a bit vague, but it freaked me and my brother out for ages as the patient ends up screaming before going into a surreal dream like state from the weird dentists injection.

I'd love to know more about this film. Many thanks.

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This is probably Soylent Green, where Edward G Robinson opts to be euthanised to a light classical music background.

Except, on reading your piece more closely, there's no freak-out or hallucination in this film, and it's in colour.
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THE SECRET PARTNER ? (starring Stewart Granger)
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Itssounds more like the immortal Richard Massingham's Tell Me If It Hurts(1934) which is indeed freaky and surreal....though I don't recall the music.

Tell Me If It Hurts (1934) http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/521707/
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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Thank you for all your suggestions. It was definitely in black and white, and it had the Space Odyssey music, but maybe I remember there being a shot from the patients point of view which was out of focus and had various shapes and light covering the screen where he was being sedated (as opposed to a freak out).

I do remember the actor being very distinguished,white haired with glasses (not the sort of man who looks like a Pyscho which he was in the end)!
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Itssounds more like the immortal Richard Massingham's Tell Me If It Hurts(1934) which is indeed freaky and surreal....though I don't recall the music.

Tell Me If It Hurts (1934) screenonline: Massingham, Richard (1898-1953) Biography
According to the BFI's website, the music in TELL ME IF IT HURTS is "The Blue Danube"
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According to the BFI's website, the music in TELL ME IF IT HURTS is "The Blue Danube"
Thanks Aphra; it looks like I was right, then. AFAIK, this one's not on the internet, but many more of his are on the Kew PRO site or on Youtube....
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Many thanks Aphra and Penfold, I will look into this film. This website is amazing for finding obscure films from the past, cannot believe you both got this from my one description.
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Many thanks Aphra and Penfold, I will look into this film. This website is amazing for finding obscure films from the past, cannot believe you both got this from my one description.
You're very welcome....but this man is an absolute legend, mostly from his post-war PIF's. Look his name up on Youtube...your film isn't there but the PIF's are. They're a riot.
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