[piperbob]

Can anyone help with the titles of 2 films, please, and are they on DVD?
1/. This was a 'B' movie and shown on UK TV when I was 7, in about 1956 (so probably made after 2nd World War). It begins on a stormy night when a couple hear a noise outside their front door. There they find a young boy collapsed and suffering from the cold and rain. They take him in, give him dry clothes and leave to sleep him in front of the living room fire. When the couple return to the lounge, he has disappeared. They search their large house and eventually find him on a rocking horse in the nursery that used to belong to their own son, kidnapped as a toddler a few years before. Then they realise that this child must be their lost son.
Earlier that day, the boy was taken to the beach by the woman who had kidapped him years before and brought him up as her child, but she died in her deckchair, and the boy wandered off until he came upon the house he recognised. There may have been a scene where the boy stumbled through a field of anti-aircraft batteries, suffering shock from the intense noise.
The film ends with the boy teaching his new-found real mother, the song that his kidnap mother used to sing.
2/. This was a film shown on TV about 15 years ago, about a Gothic-type community living in a castle or similar. A young woman kills a baby, knowing that, because she is a virgin, she cannot be punished. The community conspire to ensure that her virginity is brought to an end, so that she can face the appropriate punishment. The scenery and atmosphere are very dark and Gothic-like.

[Quinn F]

The second movie is The Baby of Mâcon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baby_of_M%C3%A2con

[piperbob]

The second movie is The Baby of Mâcon: The Baby of Mâcon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I have watched a short snatch of The Baby of Macon on Youtube: I don't think this can be it. In the film I am seeking, a young woman murders a baby by smothering. She is found out by the community, but, because she is a virgin, she cannot be punished. The elders of the community deem that her virginity must be lost, and several men are instructed to ensure this. The young woman is finally inspected by an old woman, and it is declared that she is no longer a virgin, and subsequently punished.
Robert (Surrey, U.K.)

[Quinn F]

Check out this review, it has a more thorough plot synopsis: Movie Review - Baby of Macon, The - eFilmCritic

Here's a quote from the review: "The Virgin sneaks in and smothers the child with a pillow. Because a virgin cannot be executed, she is given over by the Church to the local militia, who take turns raping her..."

[piperbob]

Check out this review, it has a more thorough plot synopsis: Movie Review - Baby of Macon, The - eFilmCritic

Here's a quote from the review: "The Virgin sneaks in and smothers the child with a pillow. Because a virgin cannot be executed, she is given over by the Church to the local militia, who take turns raping her..."

This sounds like it could be the one - many thanks for your help. I wonder now how I can get a DVD copy?

[Tetraforce]

Official or unofficial DVD?