Merian C. Cooper Movies

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and...

Designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, audiences experience the roller coaster at Rockaways' Playland, the temple dance from Aida, Niagara Falls, a Viennese choir, the canals of Venice, a military tattoo in Edinburgh, a bullfight, and more. The film concludes with a view...

Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.

The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits.

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.

A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.

Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be...

A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.

In 1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, two audacious and visionary directors, dared to create a motion picture that eclipsed everything seen until then: when King Kong was released, it was celebrated as an artistic and technical revolution and became the first myth created by the young...

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor...

A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.

A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.

A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.

A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside...

Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.