Dinky

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.