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...

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

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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 gang attends a radio station amateur show.

The gang decides to build their own fire engine.

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

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

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

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

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

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