Merian C. Cooper Trailers
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Merian Caldwell Cooper (October 24, 1893 – April 21, 1973) was an American aviator, United States Air Force and Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, screenwriter, film director, and producer. Cooper was the founder of the Kościuszko Squadron during the Polish–Soviet War and was a Soviet prisoner of war for a time. He was a notable movie producer, and got his start with film as part of the Explorers Club, traveling the world and documenting adventures. He was a member of the board of directors of Pan American Airways, but his love of film always took priority. During his film career, he worked for companies such as Pioneer Pictures, RKO Pictures, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is also credited as co-inventor of the Cinerama film projection process. Cooper's most famous film was the 1933 movie King Kong. He was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1952 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
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26 January 1934
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.
12 December 2005
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
08 March 2017
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
08 July 1932
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area.
28 July 1933
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
24 June 1933
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
02 November 1934
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him.
30 August 2002
A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era.
28 September 1932
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
13 January 1934
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
08 March 1934
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community.
10 November 1933
When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army.
22 September 1933
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
03 February 1933
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
07 April 1933
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before.
18 August 1933
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe.
05 May 1933
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.
16 May 1956
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
13 April 1934
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits.
21 May 1948
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his.
17 November 1933
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young).
21 July 1933
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
28 May 1933
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK.
25 December 1998
As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser.
08 September 1976
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
26 September 1933
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.
20 October 1933
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army.
22 June 1933
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
01 December 1933
A recently divorced interior decorator falls in love with a married barrister.
13 July 1949
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant.
09 June 1933
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths.
04 August 1933
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying.
10 June 1938
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.
01 June 1929
An Englishman (Richard Arlen) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice from his fiancee (Fay Wray) and friends.
22 April 1950
Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.
21 July 1952
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
27 October 1933
A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.
28 April 1933
Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers.
16 December 1986
After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a giant female ape is captured to serve as a source for a blood transfusion.
31 December 1948
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
15 November 1950
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches.
04 May 1934
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living.
29 June 1933
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
12 April 1940
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
22 October 1949
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack.
16 September 1932
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff.
13 January 1933
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
24 November 1933
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
11 November 1947
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
11 August 1933
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
12 July 1935
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire.
29 April 1927
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
03 September 2005
This documentary explores the incredible life of Merian C. Cooper, from his time as a soldier and pilot in three different wars, to his exploits in Hollywood, as a director, producer and cinematic innovator.
22 May 1936
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy.
24 December 1928
Captain Edward A. Salisbury was a noted millionaire explorer and writer, whose exploration stories of the islands of the South Seas Pacific appeared often in "The National Geographic," and other magazines in the early part of the 20th-century, spent 18 months exploring the New Hebrides islands where head-hunting and cannibalism was practiced by some of the natives.
18 October 1935
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
19 November 2024
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 cinematic art.
02 May 1953
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
02 March 1934
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.
30 September 1952
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.
