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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

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

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.

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

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

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