1980's classic but can't remember the name

[simonf]

I recall watching a series of films on four in the late 1980's. One film, which I have never seen since, was set in World War 2 and featured a small boy who thought he was a western gun fighter. The final scene sees him draw against a German officer, who loses in the draw, but shoots the boy. Great film, buggered if I can remember the title.

[Euryale]

Might be this:



The Lucky Star (1980)



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[AdrianTurner]

Just a small and perhaps pedantic point, simonf . . . if you can't recall the film and it seems particularly obscure, so obscure that none of the experts on this Forum can identify it, then it can't be called a classic. Cannit?

[Euryale]

Just a small and perhaps pedantic point, simonf . . . if you can't recall the film and it seems particularly obscure, so obscure that none of the experts on this Forum can identify it, then it can't be called a classic. Cannit?

Not wishing to be pedantic either but an identification has been offered although not by an expert as you rightly say.



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[Steve Crook]

Not wishing to be pedantic either but an identification has been offered although not by an expert as you rightly say.



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You've provided enough answers to be called an expert



Steve

[alan gowdy]

Reasonable enough point. Often these days 'classic' is used merely to mean old, rather than something which defines or typifies a class. It's a bit like anyone and everyone who appears in a soap opera being referred to in the gutter press as a 'star'. The star on the dressing room door was always reserved for the lead actor and/or actress.