Matthew Beard Movies

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

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...

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.

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,...

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

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

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

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.

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

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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

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...

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

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

The gang decides to build their own fire engine.

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

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

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

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.

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