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Does anyone remember scene w/ fire?

posted 18 years ago by mcbare
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I've been looking for a movie about a boy and girl, one Jewish and one Catholic, and after reading the posts, I know this is the correct movie because of how many posters have commented on one scene I remember clearly - when the little girl is getting accused of killing Jesus by the boy, and she cries she has never killed anyone.

My memory is murky, and I may have imagined this...I also remember a scene with a fire, and a woman who is somehow connected to the children either runs into it or is consumed.

Was that part of this movie? I thought it was...maybe it's part of another movie about children, but I don't know what that would be.

Anyway, like most people, this movie affected me profoundly, and I'm so glad to finally know the name!

[–] nubka 17 years ago

I haven't seen this film since the mid-60's, but I do remember that at the end, the little girl almost drowns. Does that sound familiar?

[–] HarlowMGM 17 years ago

There's no fire in it. From a lot of posting, it seems a number of people have pieces of this film confused with other films, ie: someone mentions a burial for a mouse but that was actually in the French classic FORBIDDEN GAMES with a similar young boy/girl friendship main story. Reading through the various posts and reviews here should answer most questions about the film.

[–] Terry1694 17 years ago

Last night, just as I turned the movie on, the children were buring a pet. Wasn't it a mouse?

[–] HarlowMGM 17 years ago

Oops, I guess I should have qualifed my comment with the fact that I missed the first half hour or so. I didn't remember such a scene but then the last time I saw it but then was about 35 years ago and I was about the same age as the kids in the movie! And it could have been edited out of the CBS Children's Film Festival print since that show I think was only an hour. The mouse scene just sounded so much like something out of FORBIDDEN GAMES (a classic French film with a very similar male & female child relationship) so I presumed they were confusing the movies.

[–] angelvamp101 17 years ago

They did bury a dead mouse in Hand in Hand. (They argued over a Jewish or Catholic ceremony) Michael had given his mouse to Rachel at the beginning of their friendship.

[–] jpb58 17 years ago

The mouse's name was Hector.

[–] leconnarde 11 years ago

Are you thinking of Great Expectations? Miss Havisham would be the woman, Pip and Estella would be the children, and fire is definitely involved with the three of them!