Della decides to buy Jim a chain for his prized pocket watch given to him by his father's father. To raise the funds, she has her long, beautiful hair cut off and sold to make a wig. Meanwhile, Jim decides to sell his watch to buy Della a beautiful set of combs made out of tortoiseshell and jewels for her lovely, knee-length brown hair.

Adaptions - Raincoat (2004), a Hindi film directed by Rituparno Ghosh is an adaptation of the story.[4] It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice (1909), Love's Surprises Are Futile (1916), The Gift of the Magi (1917), The Gift of Love (1978), The Gift of the Magi (1958), The Gift of the Magi (2004).

While we're on the subject...

A LONG time ago, I saw a French war movie, subtitled with English, and the plot was this...

A French doctor lives in a chateau. He is afraid for his wife and daughter, and to protect them from the invading Germans, he takes them off to a quiet remote village. One day, when he visits the village, he finds the occupants massacred by the SS.

He returns to his chateau to find that the SS unit has decided to get comfy at his home. But, this is no show-piece castle. It is full of the classic traps and secret passages beloved of fantasy writers (I'm not sure about the historical accuracy)

He sets about knocking off the SS troops one by one (and sometimes two by two) making full use of the castle's attributes, until they are all dead.

I have NO idea what it is called, and have tried to look for it before without success, but not recently, I will admit. So, can anyone help? It would have been made before about 1982, BTW.

is it the old gun Le vieux fusil

clicky

OK, I've got one also.

It's one that was on TV years ago (when I was about 10). The only part I remember (mainly because it gave me nightmares for weeks after) is a bit where the main character is hitch hiking at night and gets picked up by a woman in a big lorry.

They are driving along in the rain and she is telling him a story of someone who committed suicide by jumping off a building. She was describing what the guy looked like when he hit the floor and said something like...

"When they turned him over his face was like this..."

and then she turned to face the camera and her face went all alien/ghost type thing with big googly eyes and she was screaming with her tongue hanging out.

At that point I covered my face and ran out of the room.

I've tried to find the name of the film ever since then but have failed. Maybe one of you will know which film it is?

This sounds very similar to Twighlight Zone : The Movie - four short horror/scary stories.

I saw a film when I was a kid. It was about this guy who lived with his aunt and uncle on a farm in what looked like a desert. They bought a couple of androids then the uncle and aunt got killed and the guy met some old man and they went to a strange bar, then went up in a spaceship...

Can't remember much more though.

So I've reposted my opener on avforums, after Matt's suggestions drew blanks... and now, seeing as you're all chipping in with yours, here's another that's plagued me.

So it was an anime/cartoon (I recall a sketchy, painted, watercolour-esque style) in which a young child (boy?) features predominantly - alongside Oriental-style/serpent-like dragons that (IIRC) represented the four elements - with a final/closing scene in the rain with the boy mourning the death of one (or more) of the dragons.

Vague. I know.