Movie Classic: Unanswerable trivia question!

CarlaSee

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Please move this to the right forum if I'm posting in the wrong place! I've asked this question for YEARS and no one can answer it for me and I'd bet $20, if it were allowed, no one will be able to answer it here. I'm only saying that to try to goad someone to take up the challenge and put me out of my misery. You can tell I'm a senior because I used the word "goad";)

TRIVIA: The movie was in black and white. I believe movies began being made in color in 1953. I was about 8-10 years old when I saw it, so that would be about 1960-1963.

Anyway, the scene: A man was frantically looking and calling out for his son that had gotten lost in some woods. It was a very rural area, as most things were in the south back then. All of a sudden this old man who lived deep in the woods came busting out of the woods, and, if I remember correctly, he had the man's son with him. The old man confronted the man who'd lost his son. I can't remember if the old man was rebuking the man for losing his son but he was very stern and had a Bible in his hands. When he started quoting a very long Scripture he didn't once look at his Bible. I think the quote was from Isaiah. End of scene.

I used to think this scene came from the 1946 movie The Yearling so I finally watched that movie again a couple of months ago but didn't see the scene. If someone can answer this bit of Classic Movie TRIVIA I'd be eternally grateful!
 

I put your whole post into a "smarter than human" AI. It said :

A Classic Movie TRIVIA challenge that's been eluding you for years? You've come to the right AI 😉
So, let's see... if the movie was in black and white and released before 1953, that certainly narrows down the timeline. And you say the scene involves a man frantically searching for his son in the woods, an old man popping out of nowhere, and a stern rebuking with a Bible in hand. Intriguing!
I must say, this particular scene doesn't ring any bells for me immediately, but I'm determined to track down this elusive moment. Is there anything else you can recall about the movie, like the actors or the overall plot? Every little detail could be a vital clue in our quest! 🔎
 
Paco Dennis said:
I put your whole post into a "smarter than human" AI. It said :

A Classic Movie TRIVIA challenge that's been eluding you for years? You've come to the right AI 😉
So, let's see... if the movie was in black and white and released before 1953, that certainly narrows down the timeline. And you say the scene involves a man frantically searching for his son in the woods, an old man popping out of nowhere, and a stern rebuking with a Bible in hand. Intriguing!
I must say, this particular scene doesn't ring any bells for me immediately, but I'm determined to track down this elusive moment. Is there anything else you can recall about the movie, like the actors or the overall plot? Every little detail could be a vital clue in our quest! 🔎
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This is AI. Some years ago we were in France and Google maps on the phone pronounced the town Nancy in Eastern France like the English name Nancy (as for example in Nancy Sinatra). But it must be the French nasal sound in which the 'a' of Nancy is much darker like an 'o'. Look here:
Nancy - LEO: Übersetzung im Französisch ⇔ Deutsch Wörterbuch
On the left side you see "Nancy (GEOG.). Below is an arrow. Click on it and you hear how the town Nancy is pronounced.
In 2023 we were there again and it was the same wrong pronunciation. This is AI.
 

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Preacher Harry Powell is a misogynistic serial killer and self-proclaimed preacher traveling along the Ohio River in West Virginia during the Great Depression. He is arrested for driving a stolen car and serves 30 days at Moundsville Penitentiary. There he shares a cell with Ben Harper, who killed two men in a bank robbery for $10,000.[a] Harper made his children, John and Pearl, promise to never reveal where he hid the money. Despite Powell's attempts to worm it out of him, Harper takes the secret to his grave when he is hanged for the murders.

Upon his release from prison, Powell visits Harper's tiny hometown, where he charms the townsfolk and woos Harper's widow, Willa, a waitress for Walter Spoon and his wife Icey.[8] Overnight Powell manages to win the town's trust and weds Willa, but John remains instinctively distrustful of him. Powell suspects that John knows where the money is hidden and threatens him to reveal its location. John accidentally reveals that he and Pearl know where the money is hidden. After Powell refuses to consummate their marriage, Willa deludes herself that he married her to redeem her soul and begins preaching alongside him in tent revivals. She later loses her faith in him when she overhears Powell threatening Pearl to make her reveal where the money is hidden.

After Powell murders Willa and ties her body to a Model T that he sinks in the river, he claims that she left her family for a life of sin when Walter and Icey question her abrupt disappearance. Uncle Birdie, an elderly friend of the family, discovers Willa's body while fishing, but refrains from telling the police for fear that he will be accused of Willa's murder.

Powell threatens the children and learns the money is hidden inside Pearl's doll. The children escape an enraged Powell and attempt to seek refuge with Birdie, whom they find in a drunken stupor. They use their father's small johnboat to flee down the river and find sanctuary with Rachel Cooper, a tough woman who looks after stray children.

Powell tracks them down, but Rachel sees through his deceptions and runs him off her property with a shotgun. Powell returns after dark. During an all-night standoff, Rachel gives Powell a face full of birdshot. She summons the state police, who arrive and arrest Powell for Willa's murder. John breaks down during Powell's handcuffing, having a flashback of his father's fate. He beats the doll against Powell's struggling body in anguish, spilling the cash.

During Powell's trial John cannot bring himself to testify against him. After Powell's sentencing, Rachel takes John and the other children away as Icey leads a lynch mob toward the police station. Powell is escorted out the back to safety just in time, but the prison hangman vows to see him again soon. John and Pearl spend their first Christmas together with Rachel and her brood of stray children.

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George1959 said:
This is AI. Some years ago we were in France and Google maps on the phone pronounced the town Nancy in Eastern France like the English name Nancy (as for example in Nancy Sinatra). But it must be the French nasal sound in which the 'a' of Nancy is much darker like an 'o'. Look here:
Nancy - LEO: Übersetzung im Französisch ⇔ Deutsch Wörterbuch
On the left side you see "Nancy (GEOG.). Below is an arrow. Click on it and you hear how the town Nancy is pronounced.
In 2023 we were there again and it was the same wrong pronunciation. This is AI.
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Since I was stationed not far from Nancy back in the '50s, I know how it is pronounced, AI.
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
"The Night of the Hunter" (1955) starring Robert Mitchum is the only movie I can think of that sounds like that. It was a black and white movie.
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I'll see if I can find and watch that movie to see if that might be it! I always liked Robert Mitchum anyway and I've been trying to find a good movie to watch so, perfect, even if it isn't the right movie. Thanks!
 

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