Peck's Bad Boy

1934
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1h 10m

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Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in t... Read allYoung boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.

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6.4/10

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The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.

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Followed by Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938)

Soundtracks
Father and Son
Music by Hugo Riesenfeld
Lyrics by Frederick Herbert

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6/10

Peck's Bad Boy review

A young boy repeatedly finds himself in trouble when his aunt and cousin come to stay. At 12-years-old, Jackie Cooper was growing a little too long in the tooth to play the cute little kid, but he's still pretty good in this comedy from Fox. Former silent star Thomas Meaghan plays his father in his final role before succumbing to cancer a couple of years later. His character handles things pretty badly, which kind of dilutes the inevitable feel-good ending. It works best when Cooper's interacting with his rough-and-tumble gang of friends, but there's not enough of that.