It's probably a pretty good movie

April 26, 2009 7:37 PM

IdentifyThisMovie: In a shop, a little girl sees a briefcase that she thinks a man has forgotten, picks it up, and runs to return it to its owner. It explodes.

When I was a kid, I started watching a movie with my parents on TV or VHS. It began in a small, crowded American shop in the 1930s or so, in some large city. A sharply dressed man comes in, sets down a briefcase, looks around, and hurries out. A young girl in the store notices him and says, "Hey, Mister, is that your briefcase? You forgot your briefcase!" He doesn't stop. She grabs the briefcase and runs out of the store after him: "Hey, Mister, you forgot your briefcase! Hey, Mist --" BOOM.

The next scenes had to do with the funeral, and then with some kind of law enforcement; men in fedoras and all. Being that girl's age, I was totally traumatized and fled the den.

Can you name this movie? I haven't seen the whole Godfather trilogy, but I'm pretty sure this wasn't in it. Recently something appallingly similar happened in Pakistan, and I remembered this scene.

posted by Countess Elena to media & arts (5 comments total)

The Untouchables
posted by purpletangerine at 7:39 PM on April 26

Sorry, here.
posted by purpletangerine at 7:39 PM on April 26

Yup, Untouchables.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 7:44 PM on April 26

purpletangerine: really?! I remember being taken to see The Untouchables in the theater (probably because my folks couldn't find a babysitter) and mainly just being fidgety and bored. I do remember being horrified at the movie on the TV screen. Still, childhood memories are twisty, and maybe we came in late so that I didn't see the very beginning at that time.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:48 PM on April 26

That's definitely the right movie, and it's a pretty good one, worth seeing again (although it drags a little bit in parts). Andy Garcia is delicious in it.
posted by padraigin at 9:53 PM on April 26