Matthew Beard Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200...

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

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

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

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

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

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