A correspondent on another list sent the following request for a film name. Does this ring a bell for anyone on SCREEN-L? You can send responses directly to me at: [log in to unmask] Thanks in advance! Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) Request: > . . . I thought >it was something called "Mc[somethingorother]'s Daughter," but i >could be very mistaken about the title. for some reason, i really >seem to fixate on the letter M being in the title. anyhow, the film >is almost certainly british, as i remember everyone having accents >and no actors being recognizable to me. the film was probably made >in the 60s or 70s, since i remember the film style being the same sort of >flat/matte look to it as stuff like RYAN'S DAUGHTER and other 60s/70s >films had...you know what i mean? and the general look of the people >and stuff looked like it was made in the 60s or 70s, although i >believe the time period was supposed to be earlier than that. but i >wouldn't discount the possibility of it being made in the early 80s. > >here's what i remember of the plot: there was this young girl with >black hair who lived on the beach with [i think i think i think] her >father or grandfather who was some sort of either invalid or drunk. >i seem to remember her gathering seaweed from the shore as a way of >earning money (or maybe she just liked to do it). everyone in town >hated this girl for some specific reason, although i don't know what >that reason was. i believe her parents died at sea or something, >and there might have been flashbacks to that effect. i believe some >local boy liked her, but his parents were adamantly against it. >toward the end, i believe this boy almost drowns and she saves him, >and then goes to visit him and kisses him on the cheek or something, >and the town is scandalized. anyhow, that's pretty much all i >remember. > >i used to think donald pleasance played the old man, but i've since >thought better of that. okay, so i don't know. no clue. > ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]