# Searching for title of an older movie

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**Category:** Movies\
**Tags:** drama\
**Created:** [September 29, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/searching-for-title-of-an-older-movie/8265 "2024-09-29T16:24:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![lanny27](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@lanny27](https://filmfind.me/u/lanny27)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/searching-for-title-of-an-older-movie/8265/1 "2024-09-29T16:24:51Z")

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Looking for title of this movie:

1950’s movie . Set in Italy or Greece. Love story , sailor leaves for sea, not knowing his girlfriend is pregnant. Stock scene in the movie: repeated scenes of a mystical or magical fountain in the village square. Another stock scene: a group of older men hide a rock under a hat in the middle of the street --and wait for unsuspecting people to kick it.

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**Author:** ![casspir](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@casspir](https://filmfind.me/u/casspir)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/searching-for-title-of-an-older-movie/8265/2 "2026-04-23T13:51:27Z")

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“Fanny” (1961)

IMDb link:

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054866/?ref\_=ttmi\_ov\_bk](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054866/?ref_=ttmi_ov_bk)

Quotes from the below Wikipedia plot:  
”Marius, who works for him at his bar, is **obsessed with going to sea** ”  
”Fanny has been in love with Marius her whole life.”  
”Unbeknownst to Fanny, Marius is planning to leave the next day.”  
”About two months **after Marius goes off to sea, Fanny discovers she is pregnant** with his child.”

Wikipedia plot summary:

> **[Fanny (1961 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_(1961_film))**
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> Fanny is a 1961 American Technicolor romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan. The screenplay by Julius J. Epstein is based on the book for the 1954 stage musical of the same title by Logan and S.N. Behrman, which in turn had been adapted from Marcel Pagnol's trilogy. Pagnol wrote two plays, Marius (1929) and Fanny (1931) and completed the trilogy by writing and directing a film, César, in 1936. Previously, Marius (1931) and Fanny (1932) had also been produced as films.
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The pranksters put the rock down in the middle of the street:

 ![Clipboard_04-23-2026_01_](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4a640b57a14accb74a272ff698bce49d96f1453e.jpeg)

They put a hat on top of the rock:

 ![Clipboard_04-23-2026_02_](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/a/abd18a32b6de82de9fe5744eee69a34f06b03860.jpeg)

An unsuspecting walker-by approaches the hat:

 ![Clipboard_04-23-2026_03_](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/1/175e68ee04f199e80d02e375c47031b7327f1833.jpeg)

He kicks the hat and the rock under it and there is pain on his face:

 ![Clipboard_04-23-2026_04_](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4aea775a85cdd719ebd53185b8d7ceed6498e01c.jpeg)

You can watch the full movie on YouTube here, the scene with the rock-under-the-hat prank starts early in the movie, about at the 0:09:50 mark:

[![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5578c17f9089d15171c69964acccf0e61f77db49.jpeg "Fanny (1961) HD, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Romance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5aMfg9-KSY)

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**Author:** ![lanny27](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@lanny27](https://filmfind.me/u/lanny27)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/searching-for-title-of-an-older-movie/8265/3 "2026-04-23T18:36:16Z")

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Casspir found this for me!! Yahoo. Many thanks.