Post by Isapop on Jul 17, 2017 11:35:14 GMT
A couple of scenes from an old movie that I saw part of as a child stayed in my mind, and it would be more than forty years before I would know the movie.
The first scene is in a hospital room where a mother is being told not to worry about her child. But then she sees something being brought into the room. The camera focuses on what's written on the item. I was so young that I couldn't read what it said, but whatever it said it caused the mother to become distraught.
And the second scene is of a small airplane flying through a severe rainstorm.
I remembered those scenes for decades and had no idea what they were from.
Then one day I turned on TCM to watch "Made For Each Other" (1939), starring James Stewart and Carole Lombard.
And lightning struck me as I watched Lombard becoming distraught when she sees a tank with the word "Oxygen" being brought into her child's hospital room. And I stared in wonderment as, shortly afterwards, a pilot is flying his small plane through a powerful storm to bring the child the lifesaving medicine.
It was surprising, to say the least, to sit down to watch a movie with no idea that a decades old question mark was about to be answered.