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70’s or 80’s movie. Woman won’t drive a car. Must walk everywhere

I Don't Know the Name... (unsolved movies)

This one may be tough. I’m piecing it together from memories over 25 years ago when I saw this movie on TV as a kid one afternoon. It likely is a 70’s or 80’s movie.

It’s about a blonde woman, middle-aged who seems to walk everywhere; even carrying her suitcase long distances to meet and visit people. It seems like she has an aversion to driving and/or riding in cars; maybe even afraid to get in cars but I can’t remember the reasoning.

In the ending scene, she’s having an argument one night with a man (I think) and the man storms out, gets in a car and starts to drive away. The woman picks up her suitcase and starts walking after him. One of her friends (another guy I think) tries to stop her and calls her back but she just keeps going down the street with her suitcase in hand into the night. The movie then ends.

The movie has a pretty serious tone to it. Kind of a depressing ending too.

Western Movie – Likely 80’s. I only remember the ending.

Solved!

I saw this movie late night/early morning on television when I was quite young. I’m guessing it’s from the 80’s. I only saw the ending.

It takes place in the 1800’s/pioneer days out on the western plains of the US. There’s a crippled white guy hobbling up the side of a mountain in pursuit of a Native American on a horse. The Native American has a white woman with him and is slowly trotting up the mountain ahead of the crippled man. It’s the horse he’s after as he says “I’ll chase you into Canada if I have to in order to get my horse back.”

Halfway up the mountain, the crippled man finds the woman abandoned. She says to him “Please help me” but he ignores her and continues pursuit. He gets to the top of the ridge only to find the Native American riding off into the distance, he miles away and almost out of sight. The man then looks up to the sky and says “Please help me” and the movie ends.

This one has been bothering me for a long time. One of those strange childhood memories I can’t get closure on.