Paramount Pictures
Directed by Norman Taurog
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
9-year-old Jackie Cooper got a Best Actor nod for his role as Skippy, the precocious son of a doctor who spends most of his spare time on the other side of the tracks in Shantytown. He befriends Sooky, a pathetically cute little kid played by Robert Coogan. It's like an episode of the Little Rascals with a budget. Sooky's dog gets captured by the dog catcher mainly out of spite for a broken windshield. Sooky and Skippy have a few days to raise 3 dollars for the dog license before the dog is shot. They put on a show, sell lemonade and pawn stuff but still come up short. Things take a turn for the morose when the dog is shot anyway and Skippy and Sooky must come to terms with it.
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