Dinky (1935)
Jackie Cooper’s pout is the cutest pout in the world, next to Shirley Temple’s. If they’d ever made a movie together, the audience would be crying so hard they wouldn’t be able to pay attention to the film. In Dinky, Jackie plays a young boy in military school whose mother, Mary Astor, gets sent to jail for a crime she didn’t commit. While Mary tries to hide her location from her son, her son tries to hide his location from her. To help her expenses, Jackie leaves military school and enrolls in an orphanage school.
Sounds like the perfect makings for a tearjerker, and if you’re a mother, you probably will reach for your handkerchief a time or two. It’s not really as sad as it sounds, though, and most of the movie is enjoyable, since Jackie is such a doll and Mary is the stereotypical suffering mother. If you’re a fan of his, or you’ve never seen one of his movies when he was a child star, you’ve got to watch it. His character is very likable, having a good heart that doesn’t judge his friends by how much money they have, and he even gets to enjoy a little romance! At the start of the film, he expresses a desire to be promoted to Sergeant, and it won’t take long for the audience to agree he deserves it.
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Sounds like the perfect makings for a tearjerker, and if you’re a mother, you probably will reach for your handkerchief a time or two. It’s not really as sad as it sounds, though, and most of the movie is enjoyable, since Jackie is such a doll and Mary is the stereotypical suffering mother. If you’re a fan of his, or you’ve never seen one of his movies when he was a child star, you’ve got to watch it. His character is very likable, having a good heart that doesn’t judge his friends by how much money they have, and he even gets to enjoy a little romance! At the start of the film, he expresses a desire to be promoted to Sergeant, and it won’t take long for the audience to agree he deserves it.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Meringue in Sugartown USA" for posting!
More Mary Astor movies here!