bhryun Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Does anyone know a movie where a little girl and her mother get hit by a car while standing in front of a store window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandykaypax Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 I'm wondering if you may be thinking of the Shirley Temple movie BRIGHT EYES. Shirley's mother gets hit by a car while crossing the street with her daughter's birthday cake. Sandy K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhryun Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 I've seen every Shirley Temple movie I don't think that's the movie I'm thinking of. Thanks though I'll just have to keep watching for it on TCM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bggalaxy Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 about when was the film made or takes place? Black & white or color? Is the mother and daughter main parts of the film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Sunnysideup i wrote this in another post incase you don't see it the movie might be "Night Into Morning" 1951 Ray Milland run into a dept store window i think with a Mother & Daughter looking in a store window I've seen this movie only on TCM a while back hope this is the movie your looking for but without more info its hard to help you. This movie was in B/W and had Nancy Davis Reagan inthe movie also Rosemary Decamp, John Zodiac its a real tearjerker but excellent movie for its time lolite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhryun Posted March 8, 2005 Author Share Posted March 8, 2005 The scene that Sunnyside describes sounds so familiar--I wish that I could agree that "Night into Morning" was the right movie, but I'll try to think of the film that contains such a scene. Lolite, I also thought that "Night into Morning" might be the film that the poster is looking for until I recalled that Ray Milland's wife and son, not daughter, lose their lives in a fire caused, I believe by a gas leak in their home. For anyone who may not have seen this movie that may sound like the ingredients for a trite melodrama, yet the story is told with quite a lot of poignant detail--for example, in one of the first scenes, Milland chides his son about leaving his bike in the driveway as he hurriedly leaves for work one morning, never realizing that he'll never see him or his mother alive again and he is teaching class at the college where he works when a distant blast momentarily disrupts his lecture and distracts his somewhat bored students. Since alcoholism is again one of the themes here as it had been in the brilliant "The Lost Weekend", one might be tempted to think that this is a retread for Milland, but his excellent performance here differs in the depth of his guilt, anguish, anger, bitterness and despair. His character here has lost his entire world--he isn't "merely" troubled by writer's block and depression aggravated by alcohol. While the ending of this film is rather pat in some ways, there is no definite promise that the hero will be able to put his life back together. The implication seems to be that his struggle to survive this unimaginable tragedy makes him heroic. Good movie, better than average performance. Hope TCM shows it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loliteblue Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Hi Moira! In the middle of the movie Ray Milland gets very drunk gets behind the wheel of his car and makes a wrong turn at an intersection and crashes into a dept store window can't recall if for sure a mother & daughter were looking in the store window at the same time of the crash or not. I agree with you Ray Milland's performance is just as good as "Lost Weekend" .... Dear Moira glad your feeling better and can post again with us! LOVE YOUR POSTS! lolite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhryun Posted March 9, 2005 Author Share Posted March 9, 2005 Thanks for enlightening me, Lolite! I only dimly remember something about Milland's driving, but I'm sure you've got it. I appreciate your kind words, despite my faulty memory--I'm lucky I remember my name these days, but I'm thankful that I've found my way back here, at least for the moment. I missed reading your entertaining posts alot--along with everyone else's words. Keep up the writing, won't you please, Lo?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhryun Posted March 9, 2005 Author Share Posted March 9, 2005 I think the movie takes place in the 1950's it was black and white. I don't know where it takes place. The woman and little girl weren't main parts of the film just for that instant. I will look for "Night Into Morning" and see if that's it. Thank you both so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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