"You cry baby, you cry!"
August 29, 2015 8:55 AM Subscribe
Does anyone remember a western where there is a scene in which a woman is holding a crying baby and they are surrounded by coyotes or wolves?
The back story is that the woman had once been in a situation were she was holding a baby (maybe her own) and they were hiding from some dangerous people and she covers the babies mouth to stop the baby crying and the baby dies.
Then there is a scene where she and a child she has adopted along their travels are surrounded by wolves or coyotes and the child keeps crying and she just says something like "you keep crying baby!" I can't remember what it was exactly but I was thinking about that scene and wishing I knew what movie it was and what the actual quote was. If anyone knows what movie this was let me know! There's a guy in the movie she's teamed up with as well and I think he turns up to save them from the solves/coyotes but I don't remember a whole lot of the movie. Thanks.
The back story is that the woman had once been in a situation were she was holding a baby (maybe her own) and they were hiding from some dangerous people and she covers the babies mouth to stop the baby crying and the baby dies.
Then there is a scene where she and a child she has adopted along their travels are surrounded by wolves or coyotes and the child keeps crying and she just says something like "you keep crying baby!" I can't remember what it was exactly but I was thinking about that scene and wishing I knew what movie it was and what the actual quote was. If anyone knows what movie this was let me know! There's a guy in the movie she's teamed up with as well and I think he turns up to save them from the solves/coyotes but I don't remember a whole lot of the movie. Thanks.
Response by poster: I feel I should correct though- she saves herself and the child like a badass-- there's no man doing that here.
posted by xarnop at 9:17 AM on August 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by xarnop at 9:17 AM on August 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
If I'da seen your question, I could have answered it. Patience, grasshopper.
posted by patheral at 10:35 AM on August 29, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by patheral at 10:35 AM on August 29, 2015 [3 favorites]
I seem to remember a MASH episode where a bunch of people are fleeing and the mother smothers the baby to death to save the group.
posted by gt2 at 11:20 AM on August 29, 2015
posted by gt2 at 11:20 AM on August 29, 2015
Yeah, it pops up in Mash and also in some other "hiding from the Nazis" flashback in another series. It's a pretty widely re-used story because it's so horrible - mother murdering her baby to save the wider group. I have no idea why writers like it so much.
posted by tinkletown at 11:54 AM on August 29, 2015
posted by tinkletown at 11:54 AM on August 29, 2015
I was going to say Quigley too - that was an incredibly memorable scene, even though I can't remember the rest of the movie.
posted by Toddles at 3:44 PM on August 29, 2015
posted by Toddles at 3:44 PM on August 29, 2015
I seem to remember a MASH episode where a bunch of people are fleeing and the mother smothers the baby to death to save the group.
That was actually Hawkeye remembering the incident to Sidney Friedman, the shrink. It happened on a bus when a soldier had come on board. Hawkeye remembered it being a chicken, and his breakthrough came when he remembered it had been a baby.
posted by klanawa at 9:38 AM on August 30, 2015
That was actually Hawkeye remembering the incident to Sidney Friedman, the shrink. It happened on a bus when a soldier had come on board. Hawkeye remembered it being a chicken, and his breakthrough came when he remembered it had been a baby.
posted by klanawa at 9:38 AM on August 30, 2015
I have no idea why writers like it so much.
FWIW, I think the specific version that shows up in Quigley is a a trope from much older Western genre stuff, and maybe from American frontier folklore. I remember it from reading stuff as a kid. I think.
posted by brennen at 11:54 AM on August 30, 2015
FWIW, I think the specific version that shows up in Quigley is a a trope from much older Western genre stuff, and maybe from American frontier folklore. I remember it from reading stuff as a kid. I think.
posted by brennen at 11:54 AM on August 30, 2015
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The scene was from Quigley Down Under.
posted by xarnop at 9:04 AM on August 29, 2015 [2 favorites]