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I have a film that I can't recall from my youth too!

posted 4 years ago by Kazak (2008)
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This would've been something I saw on television in the mid to late 1970s, possibly even a TV movie or something. What I remember is basically just the very first and very last scenes. At the very beginning we see two kids, a boy and a girl, playing on a beach. They find a fledgling sea turtle and they carve their initials into its shell then release it back into the ocean. I can't remember anything about the rest of the movie, but presumably the turtle must grow into some kind of beast that wreaks havoc, because at the very end of the film the camera pans in on the beast's shell to reveal the initials that the children had carved, it was the same turtle!!! Anyone?

[–] sslssg (28280) 4 years ago

The only tv movie I remember from the late 70s with a giant turtle is The Bermuda Depths. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077223/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

From Wikipedia
On a Bermuda beach, a sleeping Magnus Dens is approached by a beautiful but mysterious woman, Jennie Haniver, who seems to recognize him. In the meantime, Magnus is dreaming of his childhood, playing on the same beach, watching a turtle egg hatch with his friend Jennie. Jumping a few years later, both are playing with a grown turtle, Magnus carves "J+M" inside a heart on the turtle's shell while Jennie makes a cowrie shell necklace for Magnus. Follow on to young Magnus on the beach spotting Jennie riding the turtle heading out to open sea and disappearing beneath the water as he calls after her. Then jumping to his nightmare of the night his father, Lionel was knocked into the water by an unseen horror in the cave beneath the house and part of his house on a cliff crumbling down to the beach as the storm rage on.