Eugene Jackson Trailers
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Eugene Jackson gained fame as Farina's older brother, Pineapple, in six of Hal Roach's "Our Gang" serials - "The Mysterious Mystery", "The Big Town", "Circus Fever", "Dog Days", "The Love Bug" and "Shootin Injuns". Besides films he sang and danced on the vaudeville circuit - billed as "Hollywood's most famous colored kid star". Most of his film roles were bit parts, most uncredited. He did appear as Diahann Carroll's Uncle Lou on TV's "Julia" and Redd Foxx's friend on "Sanford and Son". In later years he taught dance at studios he started in Compton and Pasadena. He trained several performers in the 1959 film Porgy and Bess. His work was featured in a dance retrospective for the 1993 Los Angeles Festival.
Most Popular Eugene Jackson Trailers
Total trailers found: 54
22 June 1936
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
27 April 1939
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times.
13 April 1984
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way.
07 March 1925
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart.
22 November 1991
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead.
22 June 1979
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island.
21 June 1960
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder.
06 August 1959
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
14 November 1931
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
09 July 1938
An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.
11 September 1937
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
10 January 1925
The gang play inside a railroad box car which suddenly closes, trapping them inside. The next morning they find themselves in New York City.
04 February 1943
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille.
12 December 1924
Mickey Daniels doing an impersonation of Sherlock Holmes and Joe Cobb being Watson as the two try to discover the whereabouts of a young rich kids who has gone missing.
28 June 1973
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again.
06 March 1937
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
01 February 1980
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay.
07 February 1925
The circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members were able to play hooky from school so as to attend the festivities.
09 April 1976
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
05 September 1935
Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father.
20 December 1972
A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed.
06 August 1972
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment.
13 June 1973
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
24 April 1925
Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty salon, where Pineapple works and proceed to make shambles of it.
26 January 1931
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita.
25 November 1938
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
24 June 1964
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over.
13 July 1973
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
01 December 1971
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
02 January 1929
Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.
08 August 1931
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
04 February 1938
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
25 September 1943
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
11 July 1940
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda.
29 March 1972
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
18 March 1924
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
25 October 1931
A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.
14 February 1973
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes.
26 May 1971
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
11 February 1977
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
03 July 1942
A well-meaning doctor lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn that the kids are members of a tough Harlem gang, they begin to suspect they're up to nefarious deeds.
27 March 1959
The once-prominent Compson family of Jefferson, Miss., has been reduced to near-penury by generations of alcoholism and sin.
25 May 1936
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers.
18 October 1925
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
30 December 1938
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
14 February 1941
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
02 May 1925
Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have troubles trying to find the tunnel entrance - planning their next game, which will be a Wild West shootout.
05 August 1964
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
01 July 1983
Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison.
01 June 1938
An All-Black comedy musical.
02 March 1936
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
06 October 1950
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail.
27 April 1939
A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts from a 16mm print donated by Giancarlo Esposito and Laurence Fishburne.
18 June 1923
Penrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, but Penrod's father pressures him to allow the boy in because his parents are wealthy and prominent members of the town.
