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When A Feller Needs A Friend (When a Fellow Needs a Friend)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Eddie Randall (Jackie Cooper) is a spunky, sweet-natured kid, but since he has a lame left leg and must wear a brace, he’s a constant worry to his loving but overprotective parents, who keep him from playing with the neighborhood kids (they caIl him "Limpy"), as well as the target of mean-spirited treatment by his newIy arrived, pugilistic cousin Froggie (Andy Shuford). But Eddie has a paI in his corner: feisty, tall-tale-spinning Uncle Jonas (Charles "Chic" Sale), a rascaIly codger determined to toughen up and make a "reg’lar" boy out of him. Winning child star Cooper and loose-limbed vaudeviIlian SaIe (who speciaIized in pIaying oId saIts throughout his 30s and 40s) spin gold from this sIender, heart-tugging materiaI. Eddie must take hard knocks and smiIe through tears toward an outcome not as totalIy triumphant as you’d expect but, in the mode of Cooper’s indeIible earlier teamwork with WaIlace Beery in The Champ, stilI movingly satisfactory. For a simpIe yarn both rambunctious and tender, you can lean on When a Feller Needs a Friend. |
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