What was this film?

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It's a distant memory of a movie - I saw it when I was about five-years-old in the early 1970's, and all I remember was this boy used to say something to himself like "You can do it, (Dusty Brown?)", and then this would boost his strentgh and give rise to a mystical change in fortune. Anyone know the picture?

Also, there was another movie, or it might have been the same one (sorry to be so vague), which centred on a boy who used to enter into a magical world via a toy boy-sized red car (or it may have been a box) in his bedroom.

― Jas)n Peeb)es, Sunday, 12 February 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

the second one is the phantom tollbooth, no?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 12 February 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're right! Shame, it doesn't look like it was ever released on DVD...

― Jas)n Peeb)es, Sunday, 12 February 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Having read more abou the story on Wikipedia, it strikes me that Jamie and the Magic Torch owed quite a bit to the Phantom Tollbooth.

― Jas)n, Sunday, 12 February 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

YOU CAN DO IT, DUFFY MOON! i'm pretty sure this is it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290131/

― michael B, Monday, 13 February 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that's it alright, thanks! ... "Picked on by the other boys in his class for being a "shrimp", Duffy Moon develops talents and powers that enable him to meet unexpected challenges."

― Jas)n, Monday, 13 February 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Help me out here...a bumper-car scene to a new-wavy song, but not the bumper car scene in Adventureland. I know there's another film with a similar scene. I thought it was Take This Waltz, but I can't find anything to support that.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 01:22 (five years ago)

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