Matthew Beard Movies

Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Willie Mae Taylor

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Kornman

Join all your favorites—Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more—in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mike Eagan

Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle...

Genre: Family

Cast: Billy Laughlin

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Errol Flynn

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Poole

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Whalen

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lynn Bari

Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George McFarland

Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bonita Granville

When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred Stone

A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Herb Jeffries

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Preston

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

Genre: Music

Cast: Eddie Cantor

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing...

Genre: Music

Cast: Clarence Muse

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in...

Genre: Music

Cast: Matthew Beard

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

Genre: Music

Cast: Daniel L. Haynes

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.

Genre: Family

Cast: George McFarland

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wally Albright

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

Genre: Family

Cast: Matthew Beard

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brother of their teacher Miss Crabtree comes to visit,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laura La Plante

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sherwood Bailey

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Barrymore

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bobby Breen

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Don Ameche

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Loretta Young

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

Genre: Music

Cast: Bobby Breen

Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ron Howard

A behind the scenes look at Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies, complete with interviews from several former cast and crew members of the series.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peggy Ahern

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lena Horne

The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George McFarland

The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his mother's society party. The gang tries to help...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wally Albright

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Genre: Western

Cast: Henry Fonda

A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dabney Coleman

War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alice Faye

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norma Shearer

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George McFarland

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.

Genre: Music

Cast: Stepin Fetchit

Spanky and Porky try to figure out a way to get their mother a winter coat for Christmas after she buys them a Blue Comet electric train.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Philip Tanzini

Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Pickford

The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sherwood Bailey

The gang decides to build their own fire engine.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wally Albright

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sherwood Bailey

The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wally Albright

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.

Genre: Family

Cast: Sherwood Bailey

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sherwood Bailey

The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sherwood Bailey

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge....

Genre: Western

Cast: Gene Tierney

While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George McFarland

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Henry H. Daniels Jr.

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Warner Baxter

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sybil Jason

Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Winfield

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billy Mauch

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy DeBorba

The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Darla Hood

The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Matthew Beard

The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jerry Lewis, Music by Nelson Riddle.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jerry Lewis

Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isaac Hayes

Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! All films in this fantastic collection have been fully-restored and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George McFarland

A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Holly and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Busey

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warner Baxter

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carl Switzer

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley Temple

This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. It deals specifically with how, after his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Basehart