Matthew Beard Movies

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

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

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

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

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

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...

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

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

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.

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