Does anyone remember the Rowan and Martin
comedy/western movie 'Once Upon A Horse'?
There was a bar fight scene, during which a short woman jumps on the shoulders and neck of a tall man. He runs under a low hanging chandelier, which sweeps her off. The woman, hanging from the chandelier, swings way back and then way forward, and her bare feet ram through the adobe wall of the bar and stick out into the alley outside while she holds on to a roof beam with both hands. Out in the alley, a large dog jumps up on a pile of boxes and starts licking her feet. The camera shot cuts back and forth several times between the dog licking and the woman laughing wildly and screaming for help! After about 20 seconds the dog goes away. It was a lot of fun to watch!
There was also a scene in a very old docudrama about the lost colony in Virginia back in the 1600s; It involved the oddest looking stocks I've ever seen, and I've often wondered if there's any historical documentation of such a set of stocks being used. I haven't found any.
In the film, a woman in the lower range of middle aged was locked in these stocks. What made them odd was that they closed around her thighs, just above the knees, with some of her dress sticking out though the holes around her legs, for modesty I suppose. Her legs bent down at the knees.
Her ankles were crossed, and enclosed in a locking metal ring that was attached to the base of the stocks. The stocks were high enough that her feet were a good eight inches above the ground, and they were bare.
Her back was leaning against the upright of a kind of mini-gallows, with the horizontal beam protruding forward above her head. Her crossed wrists were tied with the end of a rope hanging down from the end of the mini-gallows, and this tie held her arms bent upward at the elbows at about a 90 degree angle, with her forearms in front of her face.
What seared the scene into my mind was the fact that a lovely little blonde girl, about 4 or 5 years of age, was standing in front of the stocked woman, holding a wispy head of some kind of plant, either hay or wheat or barley or something like that, with the grain gone so only wispy strands remained. This little girl kept on stroking the woman's toes and soles with the wispy plant, and the woman alternately laughed helplessly, screamed at the child to stop, or begged people passing by to make the child stop.
The female passers by just lowered their heads and kept walking, while the males jeered at her and taunted her.
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There were seven or eight returns to that scene during the film, the shortest about 7 seconds, the longest about 25 seconds.
I'm not sure, but I think the title of the film was 'Croatoan'. I also think the film maker had a fetish!
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Mastertank1
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