Skippy
Skippy is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film based on the popular comic strip and novel Skippy by Percy Crosby. The screenplay was by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, and Sam Mintz.
Plot
Skippy (Jackie Cooper) is the feisty son of the strict Dr. Herbert Skinner (Willard Robertson) and his wife Ellen (Enid Bennett) who live in Morrisville, Indiana. Skinner forbids Skippy to play in the pauperized Shantytown, because of its filth and criminal surroundings. Regardless, Skippy and his friend Sidney (Jackie Searl) visit Shantytown, where Skippy meets a new boy named Sooky (Robert Coogan, Jackie Coogan's little brother). He saves Sooky from the bully Harley Nubbins (Donald Haines), and Skippy and Sooky become friends.