Movies starring Scatman Crothers

Biography: Songwriter ("Dearest One"), actor, composer, singer, comedian and guitarist who, after high school, appeared in night clubs, hotels, films, and on television. He made many records, including his own compositions. He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions also include "The Gal Looks Good", "Nobody Knows Why", "I Was There", "A Man's Gotta Eat" and "When, Oh When".

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Louise Fletcher | William Redfield | Michael Berryman | Peter Brocco | Dean R. Brooks | Alonzo Brown | Scatman Crothers | Mwako Cumbuka | Danny DeVito | William Duell | Josip Elic | Lan Fendors
Directors: Milos Forman
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McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, “fifteen going on thirty-five”). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he’s crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.

The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Bruce Dern | Ellen Burstyn | Julia Anne Robinson | Scatman Crothers | Charles LaVine | Arnold Williams | John P. Ryan | Sully Boyar | Josh Mostel | William Pabst | Garry Goodrow | Imogene Bliss | Ann Thomas | Tom Overton
Directors: Bob Rafelson
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‘It’s Monopoly out there’. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.