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07-24-04, 07:48 AM
Here's what I remember. A kid (who looks kinda like Ethan Hawke, as I remember) steals some microfilm from some guys. I think it has satellite plans on it. He has to hide from them in the mountains. He follows them, and steals their knives. His shoes fall apart, so he wraps his feet in burlap that the thieves left behind. He meets some crazy inventor who invented a bellpull for people who don't have a butler, the line here is "hell no, I invented this 20 years ago"; he gives the kid some rope and says "you always need lots of rope". I remember this movie vividly, but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone else recognize it?
Another one:
I saw this movie on cable tv (Showtime, as I remember, in August) around 1983-1986. It involved a man, who as I remember kinda looked like Richard Chamberlain (he maybe a scientist or something) who goes through a portal of somekind. A secretary (or maybe she was his girlfriend) comes through with him. As I remember, they found some test objects that had been sent through the portal (one of which I remember to be the secretary/girlfriend's make-up compact.) I can't remember what exactly what the plot is, but I remember certain bits: they meet some tall guy (he might have been green-skinned) who can call animals with some special power; another scene where they sneak around in the early morning planting gunpowder bombs, and someone almost drops one; they meet a thief-type of person who helps them; the hero had a watch that played music, and he said to the thief, something to the effect of "if you help us, it's yours"; and the very last scene had them escaping back home through the portal, ending with a close-up on the thief, and him calling out, "What about the watch?". Can anyone tell me what this is? I had one suggestion that this might be the movie "Dungeonmaster", but I can't find a copy of that to be sure. Thanks!
Another one:
I saw this movie on cable tv (Showtime, as I remember, in August) around 1983-1986. It involved a man, who as I remember kinda looked like Richard Chamberlain (he maybe a scientist or something) who goes through a portal of somekind. A secretary (or maybe she was his girlfriend) comes through with him. As I remember, they found some test objects that had been sent through the portal (one of which I remember to be the secretary/girlfriend's make-up compact.) I can't remember what exactly what the plot is, but I remember certain bits: they meet some tall guy (he might have been green-skinned) who can call animals with some special power; another scene where they sneak around in the early morning planting gunpowder bombs, and someone almost drops one; they meet a thief-type of person who helps them; the hero had a watch that played music, and he said to the thief, something to the effect of "if you help us, it's yours"; and the very last scene had them escaping back home through the portal, ending with a close-up on the thief, and him calling out, "What about the watch?". Can anyone tell me what this is? I had one suggestion that this might be the movie "Dungeonmaster", but I can't find a copy of that to be sure. Thanks!