Hi everyone!
I remember watching this movie at a theater somewhat around 1976-79. Most likely it was in black and white and of a Western genre.
The plot is not that different from the well known “Curly Sue”, “Alice in the Cities” or even “True Grit” and revolves around a journey of a middle-aged man and a little girl through the Wild West. I remember this man as a corpulent black-bearded cowboy taking care of a girl who was either his daughter or some orphaned child.
All I recall is just this one scene: The man and the girl are making pancakes (or tortillas), and the man is showing the girl some sort of a trick – he throws the pancake up into the air, then catches it, then throws and catches it again. At some point, he throws the pancake and it disappears. Then both man and girl lift their eyes and see that the pancake is stuck to the ceiling.
Several years ago, I’ve been told that this film is, perhaps, “The Paper Moon” by “Peter Bogdanovich… However, I rewatched it a few years back and never saw such a scene.
Any help on identificating this movie is highly appreciated!
I think I found it. It was bugging me. Never heard of it, though it has a big star, Gregory Peck. Shoot Out (1971)
Here is the Wikipedia entry on it. The people who did True Grit were trying to copy the formula. Considering the talent behind it, it seems to be pretty much forgotten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_Out
There is a picture with Peck flipping a pancake, but it doesn’t appear to be a scene directly from the movie, more likely a publicity picture. It is connected to the movie. The entire movie is on YouTube. While Peck has a black beard in one of the movie posters, he doesn’t seem to have one in the movie itself.
Seems like this is the right one. Many thanks! Unless there are two movies with flipping pancakes I now see how wrong I remember the scene ((
Nice research there will, we’ll call this one “solved.”