Help me find really old moive. I can't remenber the name.?!
Question: During world war time,There was a small town.
The people who lived in that town ran away.
They left mad people in a madhouse.
Something happened I can't remember.
All mad people escaped from that madhouse
and lived in that town.
One guy was a soldier. he injured and got lost.
He went to that town (madman town) by change.
He lived with mad people but he didn't know that.
Can someone tell me what is its name ?
Answers: During world war time,There was a small town.
The people who lived in that town ran away.
They left mad people in a madhouse.
Something happened I can't remember.
All mad people escaped from that madhouse
and lived in that town.
One guy was a soldier. he injured and got lost.
He went to that town (madman town) by change.
He lived with mad people but he didn't know that.
Can someone tell me what is its name ?
KING OF HEARTS (1966)
starring Alan Bates
My mind tried playing a trick on me with the wrong title. Ever have a fight with your memory? No! That's not the right one! That is! Well, I won this time! *giggle*
Here's the IMDB summary:
During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some Germans and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum, where the inmates are convinced that he is the "King of Hearts." Feeling obligated to help the inmates, Charles attempts to lead them out of town, but they are afraid to leave and frolic about the streets in gay costumes. Will Charles be able to deactivate the bomb in time and save his newfound friends?
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0060908/
Wikipedia has more information about this film that sadly doesn't get aired much:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Hea...
I've seen it only once, at least 20 years ago. I'd love to see it again to see if I would respond to it any differently.
MystMoonstruck is right on, and here's another fun fact:
Once upon a time in the 1970s, there was the Central Square Cinema, in Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Central Square is on the edge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is about a mile (2 km) from Harvard University.*
Students and others flocked to the theater to see The King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur), multiple times: The movie provided complete escape from school and life :)
The movie played for over TWO HUNDRED straight weeks at the theater, and the theater had just two screens! All on word of mouth.
* And since this is the Movies forum, the theater was about 1000 yards from where Good Will Hunting (1997) mopped the floor, about 5 miles from the real Mystic River (2003), about 3 miles from the original Thomas Crown's Copley Square office (The Thomas Crown Affair, 1970, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway), about 2 miles up Massachusetts Ave from where Elle Woods goes to the beauty parlor in Legally Blonde (2001), about 2 km from Harvard Law School, where the students do The Paper Chase (1973), and about 4 miles from the area of the Boston waterfront where several characters join The Departed (2006), just to name a few.