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Retired Civil Servant, Fellow of British Interplanetary Society, SF fan since boyhood. b 1948
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Old Western - Seminole Civil War Vet Nearly Lynched.

Sometime in the 60s I watched an old Western. It was told in flashback. A Seminole Indian is about to be lynched by a Southern mob, but a Confederate veteran intervenes and explained the man's service...

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Two Civil War Westerns - Probably 1950s

I've been trying to trace a couple of CivilWar Westerns which I saw in the early 1960s but are probably older. The First involved a Confederate unit trying to seize a Union gold shipment. A Union force...

Feb 19, 2022 1
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Drama about Adult Posing as Youth in Psychiatric Hospital

I recall seeing a tv movie in which a young-looking adult poses as a 17yo and has himself "committed" to a psychiatric centre for (allegedly) troubled youth, in order to expose wholesale fraud on the part...

Jan 31, 2022 1
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That's it all right. I see it has an alternative title, The Road Home, which matches perfectly. Many thanks. I wouldn't exactly call that youth an angel, but he was certainly lost.

Dec 21, 2021 1
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1990s film abt Wayward Teen in Crooked Mental Institution

I saw this film in the 1990s (probably early 90s). A teenager gets into trouble (at one point I think he drives a car into a swimming pool) and is committed to a mental hospital. Once there, he soon finds...

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