Matthew Beard Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

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

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...

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...

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

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...

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

The gang decides to build their own fire engine.

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

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