Category:Children (film subject)

Children (film subject)

Additional movies

• 1890s -- L'Arroseur arrosé AKA The Sprinkler Sprinkled (France, 1896) -- Two Naughty Boys Teasing the Cobbler (UK, 1898)

• 1900s -- Boys Diving, Honolulu (USA, 1901) -- Our New Errand Boy (UK, 1905)

• 1910s -- As a Boy Dreams (USA, 1911) -- Det hemmelighedsfulde X AKA Sealed Orders (Denmark, 1914) -- One Touch of Nature (USA, 1914) -- Little Sunset (USA, 1915) -- Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (USA, 1917) -- Tarzan of the Apes (USA, 1918) -- The Solitary Sin AKA The Naked Truth (USA, 1919)

• 1920 -- A Child for Sale (USA) [lost] -- Dinty (USA) -- Huckleberry Finn (USA) -- Just Pals (1920) -- The Son of Tarzan (1920) -- The Soul of Youth (USA)

• 1921 -- The Kid (USA) -- My Boy (USA) -- Peck's Bad Boy (USA) -- School Days (USA)

• 1922 -- Crainquebille AKA Coster Bill of Paris (France) -- Oliver Twist (1922) -- Our Gang: One Terrible Day (USA) -- Our Gang: Our Gang (USA) --

• Episode (Our Gang): The Big Show (1923)
• Episode (Our Gang): High Society (1924)
• Episode (Our Gang): Ask Grandma (1925)
• Episode (Our Gang): The Fourth Alarm (1926)
• Episode (Our Gang): Good Cheer (1926)
• Episode (Our Gang): Thundering Fleas (1926)
• Episode (Our Gang): Uncle Tom's Uncle (1926)
• Episode (Our Gang): Baby Brother (1927)

• The Country Kid (USA, 1923)

• Buttons (USA, 1927), with Jackie Coogan. -- A young street orphan, Buttons, gets a job as a pageboy on an ocean liner. He and his friend, Slugger, get on the wrong side of the ship's captain, however, when they try to tell him his wife, who is aboard the ship, is cheating on him. The captain throws them both in the brig, and their troubles get even more complicated when the ship is wrecked at sea and is in danger of sinking.

• The Kid Stakes (Australia, 1927) -- Young "Fatty" Finn and his friends enter their pet goat in a race, but his rival "Bruiser" Murphy lets the goat loose, right before the race. (IMDb) -- Silent film based on the "Fatty Finn" comic strip. (BoyActors)

• Sorrell and Son (USA, 1927) -- Stephen Sorrell (H.B. Warner) raises his son Kit (Mickey McBan) alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell, forced to take work as a menial, finds that both his dignity and his health are damaged by the exhausting labour and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But he thrives on the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labours. Then, one day, the mother, whom Sorrell had allowed his boy to believe was dead, shows up again...

• The Yankee Clipper (USA, 1927) -- Against the backdrop of the maritime rivalry between the United States and Great Britain in the mid-19th century, Captain Winslow races a clipper ship from China to Boston in order to win a coveted tea trade contract. He and his crew - including stowaway-turned-crew-mascot Mickey Murphy - find themselves on a dangerous journey, with typhoons, mutiny, and no fresh water.

• The Circus Kid (USA, 1928), starring Frankie Darro. -- A young waif runs away from a harsh orphanage in order to join the circus.

• None But The Brave (USA, 1928), starring Billy Butts. [lost?] -- College hero Charles Stanton sets out to prove that he can be a business success, only to fail miserably as an insurance agent. Realising that he excels in brawn rather than brain, he becomes a lifeguard, saves an injured swimmer and is rewarded for his valour - along the way finding time to fall for love interest Mary (Sally Phipps).

• You're Darn Tootin' (USA, 1928) <short> -- Stan & Oliver -- When incompetent musicians Stan and Ollie are kicked out of the municipal band by the temperamental conductor, they soon find themselves kicked out of their lodgings as well when their landlady finds out they've been fired and so can't pay the 14 weeks back-rent that she's owed. The boys try their luck at being street musicians, but the tiffs they get into with each other somehow spread to passersby in general, culminating in a bizarre, but hilarious, scene where the whole street is filled with men ripping each other's trousers off!

• Father and Son (USA, 1929) -- Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Mickey McBan -- Wealthy businessman and widower Frank Fields falls for Grace Moore, who in reality is only interested in Fields' money, and who leaves the man she was formerly living with, Anton Lebau, in order to marry Fields. Fields' 10-year-old son Jimmy takes a dislike to his father's new wife, who is insensitive to the boy's feelings for his dead mother, and who deliberately causes friction between father and son - eventually causing the boy to leave home. Finally, Fields discovers his wife's duplicity. When Jimmy returns home, and Grace is found murdered in the library, Fields at first suspects Jimmy of being the culprit! But then a phonograph record reveals the true murderer, and father and son have an emotional reconciliation.

• Players at Play (USA, 1929) <doc> -- A short film comprising footage of the movie stars at play, including Junior Coghlan playing baseball and a 15-year-old Jackie Coogan swimming with his younger brother Robert.

• The Rainbow Man (USA, 1929) -- Frankie Darro -- Minstrel performer Rainbow Ryan adopts Billy, the son of an acrobat friend who is killed whilst performing on stage. Playing in a small town, Rainbow falls in love with Mary Lane, the daughter of a strict hotelkeeper who disapproves of all theatrical persons. After the minstrel show to which Rainbow belongs moves on to another town, Mary belatedly discovers that Billy is the child of her dead sister! Mary goes after Rainbow, and Rainbow sends Billy to live with her, renouncing his love for her for fear of going against her father's wishes. The minstrel show is booked into a small town near Mary's, however, and Billy runs away to see Rainbow. Mary follows, and she and Rainbow are reunited.

• Square Shoulders (USA, 1929) -- Junior Coghlan, Philippe de Lacy -- Tad is a young boy living at a newsboys' home who wants to go to military school so that he can grow up to be a great soldier, like his father, who was a decorated war hero. Tad hasn't seen his father since he was a very small boy, and his mother, just before she died, gave Tad his father's Distinguished Service Cross (with his father's initials on the reverse side), whilst telling him that his father was dead. What Tad's mother concealed from him was that his father in fact survived the Great War - only to become a bum and a thief going by the name of 'Slag', who had been in and out of prison. Meeting his son by chance (who doesn't recognise him) Slag vows to do everything he can for the lad. At the same time he conceals his true identity because he doesn't want to destroy Tad's image of his father as a war hero. After robbing a factory, he uses the money to send Tad to a military academy, and he himself takes on a job at the academy's stables so that he can be close to his boy. Over time, Slag's love and affection for his son grows, and this affection is very much reciprocated by the boy. But how long will it be before Slag's criminal past catches up with him, and will Tad ever discover the truth about his father? One of the most moving cinematic tributes ever to the love between father and son.

• 1930 -- The Black Hand Gang (UK) -- Sarah and Son (USA) -- School's Out (USA) -- Shivering Shakespeare (USA) -- Teacher's Pet (1930)

• 1931 -- Father's Son (USA) -- Fly My Kite (USA) -- The Lightning Warrior (USA) -- Love Business (USA) -- On purge bébé AKA Baby's Laxative (France) -- Penrod and Sam (USA) -- Putyovka v zhizn AKA Road to Life (Soviet Union) -- Sooky (USA) -- The Star Witness (USA) -- The Vanishing Legion (USA)

• 1932 -- The Devil Horse (USA) -- Divorce in the Family (USA) -- The Expert (USA) -- My Pal the King (USA) -- Partners (USA) -- Sin's Pay Day AKA Slums of New York (USA) -- When a Fellow Needs a Friend (USA) -- You Said a Mouthful (USA) -- Young America (1932)

• 1933 -- Brennendes Geheimnis (Germany) -- Broken Dreams (USA) -- Dekigokoro AKA Passing Fancy (Japan) -- High Gear (USA) -- Hitlerjunge Quex (Germany) -- The Kid from Borneo (USA) -- Lone Cowboy (USA) -- The Mayor of Hell (USA) -- Mush and Milk (USA) -- Oliver Twist (USA) -- Le petit roi (France) -- The Power and the Glory (USA) -- The Wolf Dog (USA) -- Zoo in Budapest (1933)

• 1934 -- Anderssonskans Kalle (Sweden) -- Frontier Days (USA) -- Hi' Neighbor! (USA) -- In Love with Life (USA) -- Little Men (USA) -- Les misérables (France) -- No Greater Glory (USA) -- Peck's Bad Boy (USA) -- Tomorrow's Youth (USA) -- Treasure Island (USA) -- Wednesday's Child (USA) -- De Witte (Belgium, 1934)