Question Back when I was a young lad mid- to late 1960s WWOR-TV in NYC used to run something called Million Dollar Movie They would play the same movie for the entire week I remember one movie that was based on the opera Carmen At the time of course I didnt know the movie was based on the opera I dont remember seeing it since then I only remember the last scene The male lead dragoon is about to be shot when the female lead Carmen I think gets in front of him and gets shot instead She dies in his arms and he dies shortly afterwards from an earlier injury then theres a rush of dragoons into the bandits hideout and the movie ends I thought it was the Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford version of Carmen but when I saw that a few years ago it wasnt the one I remembered There have been several movies based on Carmen and I couldnt even tell you if the movie was foreign and dubbed If you have any idea about the movie an
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Question: This one will stump you. I saw a TV-movie in the late '70s/early '80s about a boy who accidentally kills a girl who lives up the street, and then he and his mom seal off a room in his house so he can hide from the police. His mother then dies outside the house, and an unsuspecting family moves in. Do you have any idea what the name of the film is and where I can get hold of it?
Answer: Stump me? Far from it — Bad Ronald (1974) is one of a handful of made-for-TV movies from the '70s and '80s that people write to me about all the time. It clearly creeped the hell out of a generation, which is why it amazes me that it's never been available on VHS or DVD, though you can find bootlegs online.
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Question: I think I will stump you, so here goes. In the late '70s or early '80s, there was a TV-movie about a boy who accidentally kills a girl up the street. Then he and his mother seal off a room in their house for him to live so the police don't find him. His mother dies outside the home, and he lives in the house with the unsuspecting family that moves in. Any idea of the name of the film?
Answer: Stump me, huh? Well, if Bad Ronald had never existed, or if I hadn't already written about it, you might've had me. But it did, and I did, so you don't.
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