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Lost in the Desert (1969)
Also known as Dirkie, this South African film scarred me for months afterwards. I remember being cradled in my mother’s lap in a packed out cinema, aged 5 (what were my parents thinking!) and crying hysterically as a little boy and his dog tried to find their way across the Kalahari Desert. There were scorpions and hyenas and my nightmares only stopped when we moved house and my mum convinced me that hyenas couldn’t climb into second storey bedroom windows.
You can read about it here on IMDb. It was filmed in both Afrikaans and English and writer/director/star Jamie Uys (Hayes) went on to make the hugely successful The Gods Must Be Crazy films.
What is the first film you remember seeing at the cinema?
Posted as part of the 30-Day Fillums Challenge, created by me. If you want to see what’s coming up, have a look at my post here and feel free to join in by commenting each day with your own choice.
Coming Next: Day 6: A sequel that you think is as good as the original
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I have no memory of this, but my gut told me “Bambi” and when I asked mum she didn’t either. However she vividly remembers her first movie, “Bambie” so I think she reenacted her experience for me and took me in Deniliquin probably
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I think you’re channeling your mum’s experience. Ron says you never got taken to the cinema much as kids.
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Stuart vaguely remembers Sound of Music and Mary Poppins at the Deniliquin Regent Theatre and he thinks mum did take me to Bambi at an age when he thought it was a little girls film and didn’t want to come.
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