Actor · Voice actor · 1910–1986

Scatman Crothers

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The King of Marvin Gardens

Bob Rafelson · 1972

The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) follows depressive Philadelphia radio host David Staebler as he visits his charismatic, scheming brother Jason in a decaying Atlantic City. Against the backdrop of soon-to-be-demolished hotels, Jason pitches a Hawaiian casino venture while tensions mount among the four adults sharing his suite. László Kovács’ muted cinematography and Bob Rafelson’s unhurried direction treat delusion as routine, not crisis — making this a film less about plot than about the weight of unfulfilled promise, both personal and architectural.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Miloš Forman · 1975

Miloš Forman's adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel puts Jack Nicholson's disruptive new patient against Louise Fletcher's controlled head nurse inside the Oregon State Hospital, an operating psychiatric facility used as the actual set. Made for $3 million after a development history stretching back to 1962, it became one of only three films to sweep the top five Academy Awards, and it still plays as a study of institutional control rather than a simple underdog story.

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The Aristocats

Wolfgang Reitherman · 1970

A wealthy Parisian widow's pampered cats are set to inherit her fortune, which prompts her butler to abandon them in the countryside, where a streetwise tomcat helps guide them home. The project began in 1962 as a proposed live-action television episode, was rejected, revived, and eventually turned into an animated feature at Disney's own suggestion — the last one he personally approved before he died in 1971. Phil Harris, cast as the tomcat O'Malley, was given room to improvise much of his own dialogue, shaping the character the way his earlier work on The Jungle Book had shaped Baloo.

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The Shining

Stanley Kubrick · 1980

Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's novel follows a recovering alcoholic, his wife and their clairvoyant son through a winter at an isolated hotel, shot entirely on constructed sets in England on a $19 million budget, built around Jack Nicholson's escalating performance, John Alcott's Steadicam corridors and Wendy Carlos's electronic score.