Matthew Beard Movies

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

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

The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

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

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses...

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

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

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

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

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

While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

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

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

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

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

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

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