Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
Acting
Jackie Cooper's Oscar-nominated, preternaturally natural child performance.
Production
Shantytown sets built with documentary-level poverty detail.
Writing
Dialogue that talks to kids like they're actually paying attention.
Director
Norman Taurog
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jackie Cooper was so devastated filming the beating scene that his uncle (the director) had to promise him a screen test with his pet dog to finish the take.
This was only the third year of the Academy Awards, and the only time a film based on a comic strip won Best Picture — beating Chaplin's City Lights, which wasn't even nominated.
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