Matthew Beard

Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your funny bone and includes rarely seen silent footage. See Alfalfa sing "The Barber of Seville" at the "Our Gang Follies" and Chubby grease Wheezer with Limburger, plus a 1930s bicycle commercial starring Spanky and a 1950s reunion on "You Asked for It". Come join Spanky, Buckwheat, Jackie, Mickey, Farina, Darla, Froggy, Mary, Joe Cobb and many more for the marathon of mirthful moments with the Little Rascals, a must-have for your comedy collection.

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.

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.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.

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

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.

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough.

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.

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.

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959. Cinematographer Ted Voigtlander was Emmy-nominated.

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.

험프리 보가트는 전설이다. 아메리칸 필름 인스티튜트가 1999년에 시행한 조사를 비롯하여 몇 가지 여론조사가 모든 시대를 통틀어 그를 가장 위대한 배우로 지목했다. 보가트 자신도 인정했듯이 그가 한 연기 대부분이 특별히 두드러지지 않는 역할이었음에도 불구하고 그토록 변치 않는 인기를 누린다는 사실 자체가 바로 그의 재능에 대한 증명이다. 보가트는 언제까지나 좋은 평가를 받을 것이 분명한 몇 편의 고전 영화에 출연했다. 전체적으로 살펴보면 평범한 수준의 연기도 많지만, 또 존 휴스턴 감독이 말했듯이 비록 그의 배우 생활이 스스로 자초한 날카로운 언사와 불같은 성미와 바람기 많은 보가트라는 페르소나 때문에 고충을 겪은 것이 사실이라 해도, 스크린에서 보는 그에게는 부인할 수 없는 마력이 있다. 많은 영화와 텔레비전 프로그램에서 풍자의 소재가 되기도 하는, 그의 동료 배우 스펜서 트레이시가 붙여준 별명 '보기'는 모든 남자가 되고 싶어 하는 남자다. 외과의사와 광고 일러스트레이터 사이에서 태어난 보가트는 거의 40세가 되어서야 배우로서 지명도를 얻기 시작했다. 학생 체질이 아니었던 그는 1918년에 명망 있는 필립스 아카데미에서 쫓겨났다. 해군예비군으로 시간을 보내다가 밤에 펼쳐지는 화려한 생활에 매료되어 연기 생활을 시작했다. 브로드웨이에서 작은 역할을 연기하다가 영화로 옮겨 갔다. 그의 1930년대는 특출한 연기도 없이 여러 갱스터나 터프가이들 중 하나로 등장하거나 특별히 뛰어나게 연기하지 못한 채 판에 박힌 역할들을 맡았던 서른 편 이상의 B급 영화로 채워졌다. 보가트는 워너브라더스사가 제임스 캐그니 같은 대스타들이 거절한 2등급 배역만 자신에게 떠맡긴다고 불평했다.

전작〈로라〉에 이어지는 프레민저의 스타일리시한 필름누아르. 몰락한 홍보담당원 에릭 스탠튼은 버스 차비를 낼 돈조차 없이 떠돌아다니다 캘리포니아의 작은 마을 월튼에 도착한다. 마을의 유지 조 엘리스와 매들리 교수를 구슬려 머물 곳을 마련한 스탠튼은 마을 커피숍에서 일하는 아름다운 아가씨 스텔라에게 한눈에 반한다. 하지만 스텔라는 가난한 그와는 결혼하지 않겠다고 한다. 돈이 필요해진 스탠튼은 자신에게 관심을 보이는 부유한 노처녀 준 밀스와 결혼한 뒤 돈을 챙기고 이혼할 계획을 세운다. 하지만 스탠튼이 준과 결혼하고 얼마 후, 스텔라가 살해되면서 사태는 급변한다. 은퇴한 경찰 출신의 사립탐정 마크 저드가 수사에 나서고, 유력한 용의자로 몰린 스탠튼은 캘리포니아로 도망친다.

Dancing great Bill Williamson sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: Just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer Selina Rogers at a soldiers' ball and promises to come back to her when he "gets to be somebody." Years go by, and Bill and Selina's rising careers intersect only briefly, since Selina is unwilling to settle down. Will she ever change her mind? Concludes with a big all-star show hosted by Cab Calloway.

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Scott) Belle Shirley (Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation amongst the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.

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

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

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, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.

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 treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.

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, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.

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 the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.

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 infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.

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 business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.

약혼자 프레스톤에게 화가 난 줄리는 그들의 약혼이 발표될 예정인 뉴올리언스의 중요한 사교계 행사 올림포스 무도회에서 프레스톤을 난처하게 만들 계획을 세운다. 미혼 여성들은 관례상 흰 드레스를 입는데 줄리는 빨간 드레스를 입고 나타난다. 결과적으로 줄리의 기대와 어긋나게 약혼이 깨진다. 3년 후, 프레스톤은 아내와 함께 줄리의 농장을 방문하는데, 프레스톤이 뉴올리언스 전역에 유행하던 치명적인 황열병에 걸린다.

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

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

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

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

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

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 order to raise the funds needed to send the church pastor, played by Clinton Rosemond, to a church conference in Birmingham, Alabama.

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 and put behind bars.

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 sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.

17세기 영국, 제임스 왕의 폭정에 반란이 일어난다. 모든 시민이 대항하지만 의사인 블러드는 겁쟁이라는 주변의 질타에도 나름의 신념을 굳게 믿으며 동참하지 않는다. 그러다 블러드에게 심한 부상을 당한 반란군이 찾아오고 그를 치료해주다 투옥되어 결국 노예로 팔려가는 신세가 된다. 이 사건을 통해 그는 현실을 바꾸고자 결심하고 권력자 비숍 대령과 맞서지만 실패하고 악명 높은 탄광으로 팔려나갈 찰라에 비숍의 조카 애나벨라가 그를 사겠다고 나서는데...

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

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

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

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 him clean up.

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

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

The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

Wally, the rich kid of Our Gang team, brings his pet mule along with the gang back home.

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 and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home.

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

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

The gang decides to build their own fire engine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

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

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

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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

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

Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! All films in this fantastic collection have been fully-restored and are presented here in beautiful COLOR! 1. Fly My Kite, 2. A Lad an' a Lamp, 3. Kid From Borneo, 4. Hi Neighbor, 5. Hide and Shriek

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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, the children mistake him for a suitor. The children tell abominable lies about Miss Crabtree to try to discourage the man. Meanwhile, one of the children is selling answers to the upcoming oral exam. Unfortunately for the students, the young entrepreneur used a book of minstrelsy and blackface as his source for the "answers".

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

선술집에서 소작인 제케는 아름다운 무희 취크에게 사랑에 빠지게 되지만 그녀는 단지 크랩게임에만 그를 현혹시킨다. 그 결과 그는 가족들이 수확한 면작물 판매대금 100달러를 잃게 된다. 게다가 그의 형제 스펑크는 총격전에서 치명적인 상처를 입게되는데... 로 유명한 감독의 MGM 뮤지컬 영화! 현실적이고 세속적인.. 어스름한 선술집.. 흑인 특유의 음악들과 신나는 뮤지컬 시퀀스의 향연! (1929)는 로 유명한 감독의 MGM 뮤지컬 영화이다. 는 메이저 영화사에서 제작된 최초의 올 블랙 캐스트로 구성된 유성 뮤지컬 영화로써 이러한 메이저 영화사의 제작의지는 상업영화에서 좋은 선례가 되었다. 하지만 당시 일반적인 관중들을 고려했을때 이러한 시도는 매우 위험하게 취급되어 자신의 수입을 제작에 투입하는 것이 요구되었다. 에서 보여주고 있는 아프리카계 미국인을 주제로 한 정직한 표현들은 1915년 에서 보여줬던 두려움과 인종차별주의에 대하여 예리한 대조를 이루고 있다. 감독은 아카데미 최우수 감독상에 노미네이트 되기도 하였고 영혼의 음악들과 신나는 뮤지컬 시퀀스로 가득한 는 역사에 남을 매력적인 드라마라고 할 수 있다.

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 book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel

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

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 father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.

For generations, Our Gang comedies have been enjoyed by millions of fans the world over. Now, celebrate the 100th anniversary of this iconic and beloved film series . In 1922, producer Hal Roach introduced the kiddie troupe known as “Our Gang” to theater audiences and kicked off one of the most popular and prolific franchises in the field of short subjects, with 220 one- and two-reel comedies released over a twenty-two year period. This 6-disc set is a must-have for any true Our Gang fan.