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Scatman Crothers has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
1982
Drama · Comedy
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Dir. John Landis, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, George Miller · With Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Scatman Crothers
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.
Dir. Jeremy Kagan · With Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman · With Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway
as Hong Kong Phooey (voice) · Voice
Each episode of this series include multiple segments: The first and last were "Laff-A-Lympics" segments, the other ones were "Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels", "Scooby-Doo" and "Dynomutt" segments. The "Laff-A-Lympics" segments feature 45 Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters (classic and otherwise) competing for gold medals in wacky events. Events include racing on ostriches, camels, kangaroos, rickshaws and unicycles, as well as scavenging for creatures like the Abominable Snowman, vampires, and the Loch Ness Monster.
Dir. Joe Ruby, Ken Spears · With Don Messick, Daws Butler, John Stephenson
Directed and edited by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, this film offers a look behind the scenes during the making of The Shining.
Dir. Vivian Kubrick · With Jack Nicholson, Vivian Kubrick, Terry Needham
The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the environmental destruction caused by his greed.
Dir. Hawley Pratt · With Eddie Albert, Bob Holt, Athena Lorde
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
Dir. Nelson Shin · With Judd Nelson, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker
God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all over. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world by falling in love.
Dir. John Herzfeld · With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis
as Pappy / Old Man Bone (voice) · Voice
A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated tale of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the top of the crime ranks in Harlem by going up against a con-man, a racist cop, and the Mafia.
Dir. Ralph Bakshi · With Philip Michael Thomas, Barry White, Charles Gordone
Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into?
Dir. Robert J. Rosenthal · With Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Robert Mandan
