Films I have never watched because I know they would upset me..

MayBee70 I don’t remember the scene with the dog but if I watched that scene now I would imagine that I would be horrified that the dog had cropped ears.
If you saw two dogs fighting a tiger I don't think you'd be worrying about their ears being cropped. It was a horrible scene. Very disappointed in Disney, and I can't remember what he did to Old Yeller either.

Wikipedia says A Dog of Flanders had a happy ending. So maybe then as now I cry as much when a film has a happy ending as I do when it’s sad. I bought the dvd of Old Yeller a while back and still haven’t watched it. I think that is sad….

Is that the John Mills film. If so I was too busy gazing adoringly at Tommy Kirk who I had a huge crush on ( although I didn’t quite know that it was a crush). I don’t remember the scene with the dog but if I watched that scene now I would imagine that I would be horrified that the dog had cropped ears. I assume that Americans were cropping dogs ears back then. A film that broke my heart as a child was A Dog of Flanders although I can’t remember what happened.

Shinamae As a child I don't think I thought the falling horses actually got hurt in movies. It wasn't real to me somehow. However, you are correct that there was no animal welfare in movies back then, so I couldn't watch them now.

Anyone remember Swiss Family Robinson? I tried watching it with a grandson and was shocked to see some dreadful animal cruelty. Two Great Dane dogs fighting with a tiger, and it was real. I wouldn't watch that movie again.

My grandson was traumatised when he watched The Velveteen Rabbit. Not being American I didn’t know the story and should have found out what the story was before we watched it together.

I remember a film called the nine lives of Thomasina, about a cat.
I can't recall anything other than it was very sad.

hollysteers

Many already mentioned, but Whatever happened to Baby Jane gave me the creeps for days.
I ran out of the cinema screaming as a child watching Disney’s Alice in Wonderland.
Love horses, so anything sad about them is a no no.
Hated seeing horses falling over in cowboy films, wasn’t worried about the humans, they had choice, the horses didn’t.

I think What Ever Happened To Baby Jane was a brilliant film. I also used to get upset when horses were shot or fell in old cowboy films,in fact I would go running upstairs and throw myself on my bed crying my eyes out and no matter how much l was told it was’nt real made no difference (I have a feeling that back in the day when those old black-and-white cowboy films were made that the horses were actually hurt because I don’t think there was much animal welfare back then)…?

I Daniel Blake. I can imagine the awfulness of it. I'm a coward not to watch it. It's real life for some.

Lassie films were popular with us.
All crying our eyes out, watching poor lassie limp through mud and bullets.

Many already mentioned, but Whatever happened to Baby Jane gave me the creeps for days.
I ran out of the cinema screaming as a child watching Disney’s Alice in Wonderland.
Love horses, so anything sad about them is a no no.
Hated seeing horses falling over in cowboy films, wasn’t worried about the humans, they had choice, the horses didn’t.

I was 42 at the time.
Not really, I was just trying to work out how old I was.

Probably around four, too.

In think our granddaughter was 9 or 10 at the time Grannmarie.

MissAdventure

Bambi was the first film I ever saw at the cinema.

I remember screaming the place down when his mum was shot!

Me too, MisAdventure! I was very young, pre school so probably about four. My Daddy had to take me home because I roared and howled, I was so upset.

Bambi was the first film I ever saw at the cinema.

I remember screaming the place down when his mum was shot!

But wasn`t it creepy?

I remember Night of the Hunter, Hellogirl1, Robert Mitchum very good in it.

The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum, creepy.
Psycho, seen it once, could never watch it again.

Ixion and Chestnut, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was written as a child`s book, I didn`t realise until after I`d read it.

Kate1949

I think that was me Chestnut. It was shown to our granddaughter in primary school. She was traumatised.

Kate, in our local authority, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was a set text in P.6 / P.7.
( ages 10-12) When I was doing supply teaching just before lockdown it was being taught as a Unit Study in the school I was in. I was so glad I was teaching Infants, I would not have been able to teach it.

Does anyone remember The Innocents based on the Henry James novel, The Turn of the Screw? I think Deborah Kerr was in it. Terrifying.

ixion

Kate1949

I watched The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas not realising how traumatic it would be.

I felt obliged to speak to the staff in our local Oxfam bookshop, where they had placed said book in the Children's Read section.
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This book was one studied in English by Year 7's here as part on=f their WW2 theme. I was horrified (and said so).

Bambi
Dumbo
Soldier Blue
Straw Dogs
Sophie's Choice
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Braveheart
Last of the Mohicans
Imitation of Life
Madam X

Gorillas in the mist ?
Braveheart
Bambi

The Titanic.

I had an aunt and twin cousins who lost their lives on that ship.

Oooh, the yorkshire vet

Always when my dinner is going down I get to see a cows unmentionables on screen!

Hostel 2.
That frightened me.

All of my worst nightmares all rolled into one.