Matthew Beard Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely...

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.

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200...