Matthew Beard Movies

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

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty...

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 schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brother of their teacher Miss Crabtree comes to visit,...

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

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 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 help capture a family of thieves.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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