Skippy (film)

Skippy is a 1931 American PreCode comedy film. The screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, and Sam Mintz was based on the comic strip Skippy by Percy Crosby. For his performance, Jackie Cooper, at the age of nine, became the youngest person to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Skippy Jackie Cooper is the feisty son of the strict Dr. Herbert Skinner Willard Robertson and his wife Ellen Enid Bennett. Skinner forbids his son Skippy to play in the pauperized Shantytown, because of the unhygenical and criminal surroundings there. But Skippy and his friend Sidney Jackie Searl still go to Shantytown whrere sidney meets a new boy named Sooky Robert Coogan, Jackie Coogans little brother. He saves the small boy Sooky from the much bigger bully Harley Nubbins Donald Haines. Skippy and Sooky become friends. One day Harley accidentally breaks the windshield of his fathers car with Skippys yoyo. Harley, who has a very aggressive and brute father, blames it on Skippy and Sooky. Mr. Nubbins Jack Rube Clifford, who works as a dog catcher, takes Sookys dog and demands that they pay him for the damages if they want their dog back. The boys gather three dollars by breaking Skippys savings bank, but Mr. Nubbins accepts it only for his windshield. He gives them three days for getting another three dollars for a dog license and he threatens that hell kill their dog if they dont get the money.Sooky and Skippy spend the next two days selling bottles, lemonade and wood, and staging a performance to earn money. Skippys father doesnt want to lend them the remaining thirty cents. Then Mr. Dubbins kills their dog and Skippy blames his father for it. The next morning, Skippy gets a new bicycle from his father. But he trades the bicycle with his friend, Eloise Mitzi Green, for her new dog. Skippy takes the dog to Sooky. Dr. Skinner changes and buys Sooky a licensed dog, finds his mother a job, and refrains from ordering Shantytown destroyed, instead offering assistance to its citizens. For the first time, Dr. Skinner plays with Skippy in Shantytown. There they accidentally break Mr. Nubbins new windshield. Dr. Skinner wins a fight against Mr. Nubbins and shows that he is a good father. ........

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