The Big Operator 1959  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Anatomy of a Syndicate
Director: Charles F. Haas
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Torme, Ray Danton, Jim Backus, Jackie Coogan, Jay North, Don "Red" Barry, Lawrence Dobkin
When federal agents investigate, labor union boss Little Joe Braun (Mickey Rooney) fights the government crackdown of his operation.
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Cahill U. S. Marshall 1973  PG, 103 min.
Genre: Western
aka: Cahill: United States Marshall
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: John Wayne, Gary Grimes, George Kennedy, Neville Brand, Marie Windsor, Denver Pyle, Jackie Coogan, Harry Carey Jr., Pepper Martin, Paul Fix, Clay O'Brien, Morgan Paull, Royal Dano, Dan Vadis, Hank Worden
A United States Marshal (John Wayne) must deal with the fact that one of his sons has chosen a life of crime.
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College Swing 1938  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton, Ben Blue, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Payne, Robert Cummings, Florence George
Gracie (Gracie Allen) inherits a college and turns it into a swinging vaudeville arena.
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Eighteen and Anxious 1957 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joe Parker
Cast: Martha Scott, Jim Backus, Mary Webster, William Campbell, Jackie Coogan, Yvonne Craig, Ron Hagerthy, Connie Stevens, Jackie Loughery, Damian O'Flynn
A teenage woman secretly marries, and is shortly widowed when her husband is killed while drag racing. She has a child, but can't prove she was married. Her life goes downhill from there in this exploitation film.
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The Escape Artist 1982  PG, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Caleb Deschanel
Cast: Raul Julia, Griffin O'Neal, Desi Arnaz, Teri Garr, Joan Hackett, Gabriel Dell, M. Emmet Walsh, Jackie Coogan, Huntz Hall, David Clennon, John P. Ryan, Elizabeth Daily, Hal Williams, Helen Page Camp, Harry Caesar
Based on David Wagoner's novel, this story involves young magician Danny Masters (Griffin O'Neal) who is always getting in trouble. Danny steals the wallet of Stu Quinones (Raul Julia) who just happens to be the son of corrupt Mayor Leon Quinones (Desi Arnaz). Danny finds that the wallet is filled with graft money, and this time, he finds himself in over his head and suffers the consequences.
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A Fine Madness 1966 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Jean Seberg, Joanne Woodward, Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst, Clive Revill, Werner Peters, John Fiedler, Kay Medford, Jackie Coogan
Samson Shillito (Sean Connery) is a non-conformist poet whose wife, Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), talks him into visiting Dr. West (Patrick O'Neal) for psychiatric treatment to get his life back on track. After bedding down with West's wife (Jean Seberg), the good doctor seeks retaliation through a lobotomy for his patient.
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Girl Happy 1965 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Boris Sagal
Cast: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J. Stone, Gary Crosby, Joby Baker, Mary Ann Mobley, Jackie Coogan, Chris Noel, Nita Talbot, John Fiedler, Fabrizio Mioni, Jimmy Hawkins
Rusty Wells (Elvis Presley) leads a rock 'n' roll group that works for Chicago crime boss Big Frank (Harold Stone) who sends them to work in a Fort Lauderdale nightclub entertaining college students during Spring Break. Big Frank's reason for sending them to Florida is so that Rusty will watch over his daughter Valerie (Shelley Fabares) who is vacationing there. Rusty and Valerie fall in love, but Valerie drops him when she learns of her father's involvement. Then, Valerie gets involved with an Italian playboy (Fabrizio Mioni), goes on a drunken spree, and ends up in jail. But, by story's end, Rusty and Valerie are happily reunited. Songs include "Girl Happy," "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die," "Spring Fever, and "Startin' Tonight."
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High School Confidential! 1958  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Young Hellions
Director: Jack Arnold
Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Barrymore Jr., Mamie Van Doren, Diane Jergens, Ray Anthony, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jackie Coogan, Lyle Talbot, William Wellman Jr.
The high-school drug scene in the 1950s is revealed through a new "student" who enters school and becomes involved in the illegal activities on campus. Terrible!
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Huckleberry Finn 1931 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin, Eugene Pallette, Jackie Searl, Clarence Muse, Clara Blandick, Jane Darwell, Oscar Apfel, Warner Richmond
Huckleberry Finn and Jim raft down the Mississippi in this Mark Twain classic about life on the Mississippi River. The same starring cast (Jackie Coogan, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin, and Clara Blandick) appeared the previous year in "Tom Sawyer."
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home 1965  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Scott Brady, Harry Morgan, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jackie Coogan, Charles(2) Lane, Jerome Cowan
When a U-2 pilot is downed in the Middle East, he coaches the kingdom's football team into a winning entity who is ready to play Notre Dame.
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The Joker Is Wild 1957 N/R, 123 min.
Genre: Musical
aka: All the Way
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland, Jackie Coogan, Ted de Corsia, Sophie Tucker, Barry Kelley, Ned Glass
"All the Way" won the Academy Award for Best Song in this biography of Prohibition-era nightclub performer Joe E. Lewis (Frank Sinatra) who overcame adversities to rise to the top.
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 The Kid 1921  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller, Tom Wilson, Granville Redmond, Frank Campeau, Jack Coogan Sr., Lita Grey, Jules Hanft, Kathleen Kay, Walter Lynch, May White
This very successful first Charlie Chaplin feature film also was written and directed by him. It features Chaplin as "The Tramp" who rescues an abandoned baby from a garbage can and takes him home. Five years later, "The Tramp" is raising the "Kid" (Jackie Coogan) who breaks windows so that "The Tramp" will get jobs replacing them. Now, the "Kid's" Mother (Edna Purviance) has become an opera star who does charity work in the slums. Their paths cross, and the "Kid" is handed back and forth between "The Tramp" and the Mother. The story continues and involves whether "The Tramp," Edith, and the "Kid" will become a family or end up going their separate ways.
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Lonelyhearts 1958 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Dolores Hart, Maureen Stapleton, Frank Maxwell, Jackie Coogan, Mike Kellin, Frank Overton, Onslow Stevens
Based on Nathaniel West's novel, this is a fair representation of his story about Adam White (Montgomery Clift) who takes on the "Miss Lonelyhearts" column for his newspaper. Maureen Stapleton received an Oscar nomination for Supporting Actress.
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Marlowe 1969 PG, 96 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Paul Bogart
Cast: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, Sharon Farrell, William Daniels, Jackie Coogan, Kenneth Tobey, Bruce Lee, H.M. Wynant
James Garner is very believable in the role of detective Philip Marlowe in this update of Ray Chandler's "The Little Sister." The "sister" hires Marlowe to find her missing brother, and there's lots of fun before the case is solved.
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Mesa of Lost Women 1953  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Lost Women
Lost Women of Zarpa
Director: Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis, Mary Hill, Robert Knapp, Lyle Talbot, Tandra Quinn, Chris-Pin Martin, Harmon Stevens, Nico Lek
A race of superwomen is the goal of mad scientist Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan). On the plateaus of New Mexico, he plies his trade of creation by growing gigantic spiders in order to inject the women. 1 User Review
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| | We love Tandra Quinn!!! | rmoore080 02/01/2007 | If you love B-movies (C-movies?), MESA is a must-see! The highlight of the movie is Tandra Quinn, absolutely one of the most beautiful women (IMO) to appear on screen. You have GOT to see her spider-dance (elbows hiked above her head, and two fingers of each hand rhythmically stabbing in front of her face). Absolutely gorgeous woman.
The plot of the movie is delightfully meaningless, and the movie builds up and climaxes in about 20 seconds. Oh, and watch carefully for the death of Wu - he dies about four seconds after he turns away from a conversation with Dr Arranya - I had to rewind it to watch it - it came out of nowhere.
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Million Dollar Legs 1939 N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Nick Grinde
Cast: Betty Grable, John Hartley, Donald O'Connor, Jackie Coogan, Peter Lind Hayes, Buster Crabbe, Richard Denning, Thurston Hall, William Holden, Roy Gordon
Greg (John Hartley) is an able college athlete and student who strives to succeed without the financial backing of his father (Thurston Hall). The college kids buy a racehorse to get the school out of debt. Holden's appearance is very brief-look fast.
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Oliver Twist 1922 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Gladys Brockwell, Lon Chaney, Lionel Belmore, Esther Ralston, George Siegmann, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Nelson McDowell, Lewis Sargent, Joan Standing, Carl Stockdale, Edouard Trebaol, Taylor Graves, Florence Hale
This is a good rendition of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Performed as a silent movie, it stars Jackie Coogan in the title role of the young pickpocket Oliver Twist and Lon Chaney as his tutor, the devious Fagin.
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The Shakiest Gun in the West 1968 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Rafkin
Cast: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Don "Red" Barry, Ruth McDevitt, Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson, Pat Morita, Dub Taylor, Carl Ballantine
This remake of "The Paleface" features Don Knotts in the role of the Philadelphia dentist who heads West and finds danger and romance. 1 User Review
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| | not as good as paleface / son of paleface but worth seeing , | Big " O " 01/21/2007 | | Babara looks great as a cowboy outlaw in her sensually tight jeans , tall riding boots, matching gun belt,stetson and vest. She even looks better than Doris Day did in jeans from the "Ballad of Josie ". Jane Russell with her shape and non-jeans cowboy wardrobe is the best looking "cowboy outlaw "ever. Bob Hope is a better comic and actor than Don Knotts. By contrast I have given " Son of Paleface " a perfect ten out of ten score. |
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Sherlock Holmes in New York 1976 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Boris Sagal
Cast: Roger Moore, John Huston, Patrick Macnee, Gig Young, Charlotte Rampling, David Huddleston, Signe Hasso, Leon Ames, Jackie Coogan, John Abbott
Sherlock Holmes heads for America when he learns that his nemesis, Moriarty, threatens the world's supply of gold.
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Tom Sawyer 1930 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Clara Blandick, Jackie Searl, Ethel Wales, Dick Winslow, Jane Darwell
Mark Twain's classic is given good treatment in this, the first "talkie" version of the story, with more to follow. The same starring cast (Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, and Clara Blandick) took the same roles the following year in "Huckleberry Finn."
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| 1. The Big Operator (1959)
aka: Anatomy of a Syndicate
2. Cahill U. S. Marshall (1973)
aka: Cahill: United States Marshall
3. College Swing (1938)
4. Eighteen and Anxious (1957)
5. The Escape Artist (1982)
6. A Fine Madness (1966)
7. Girl Happy (1965)
8. High School Confidential! (1958)
aka: Young Hellions
9. Huckleberry Finn (1931)
10. John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
11. The Joker Is Wild (1957)
aka: All the Way
12. The Kid (1921)
13. Lonelyhearts (1958)
14. Marlowe (1969)
15. Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
aka: Lost Women
aka: Lost Women of Zarpa
16. Million Dollar Legs (1939)
17. Oliver Twist (1922)
18. The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
19. Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
20. Tom Sawyer (1930)
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