I select Harold and Maude (1971)
Which reminds me...
(What follows is entirely off topic, but maybe someone can help solve the "mystery" that's been bugging me for 30 years.)
When I was a wee boy back in Yugoslavia in 70's, I would often watch TV with my parents not even knowing that I am up. This was only possible because foreign movies were subtitled and not dubbed, and I could watch them with sound off. Often I would struggle to stay awake to watch a movie, motivated more by enjoying my mischief then the actual movies I was watching. Later when I was older, I was able to remember vividly scenes from some of those movies, even some elements of plot, but I forgot or slept through the end of the movie. So, I went on the mission to re-watch the movies that impressed me the most before I dozed off.
As a teen or an adult, I was able to identify and watch most of them. Some of them were classics, many were very good movies that were shown on Tuesday night in TV Belgrade's "Fest premieres" time slot, so I want name them all here as not to mess with the draft here. One of them was Harold and Maude. Very easy to find (how many movies feature kid faking suicides and romancing a grandma?). There is one, however, that is still puzzling me 30 years on.
What I remember about the film:
- At the center of the story was a woman, a home-maker, couped up at home while husband/SO was at work. I think that grocery delivery guy was either found dead or disappeared or she thought him dead. She would start having these apparitions - mistaking another grocery delivery guy (or maybe that was husband and I just mixed it up as a kid?) for the dead/missing guy, or she would see dead, bloodied corpse of the guy in "dumb waiter" slowly creeping down.
- I also remember a scene where she sits on the edge of the bed, completely freaked out and sees a shiny ball (crystal or polished metal) slowly rolling towards her.
The closest I ever got to identifying the movie is when a friend told me that he remembers the movie, but not the title and that it was about husband trying to make his wife go crazy by setting up apparitions/crazy scenes. I can't tell you how many bad cable movies I watched hoping that they will turn out to be _the_ movie in question.
If anybody has any idea, I would appreciate it so much. Here is more help:
- I was born in '71., so I would have been old enough to read subtitles (6 years) but not old enough to watch the movies with my parents (9-10 years).
- American movies that I'd see (and this one was American for sure) would be at least 3 years old before premiering on TV and in most cases 5+. The movie was in color, so not earlier then 60's, not later then early 70's.
Harold and Maude just reminded me, I'll go crazy thinking about this for the next week or so...
