Matthew Beard
Also Known As: Matthew Beard Jr., Stymie Beard, Stymie, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
Biography: Matthew 'Stymie' Beard was born on January 1, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Matthew Beard Jr. He was an actor, known for Jezebel (1938), School's Out (1930) and The Kid from Borneo (1933). He died on January 8, 1981 in Los Angeles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, United States
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 08, 1981
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Honky Donkey
Overview: Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-02
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Fish Hooky
Overview: A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-28
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The Our Gang Story
Overview: Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Overview: Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your funny bone and includes rarely seen silent footage. See Alfalfa sing "The Barber of Seville" at the "Our Gang Follies" and Chubby grease Wheezer with Limburger, plus a 1930s bicycle commercial starring Spanky and a 1950s reunion on "You Asked for It". Come join Spanky, Buckwheat, Jackie, Mickey, Farina, Darla, Froggy, Mary, Joe Cobb and many more for the marathon of mirthful moments with the Little Rascals, a must-have for your comedy collection.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-15
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Captain Blood
Overview: Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Genres: Adventure Action History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-26
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Disco 9000
Overview: Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough.
Genres: Drama Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-27
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Outside These Walls
Overview: Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-04
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Overview: A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-11
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Wild Poses
Overview: Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-28
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Mike Fright
Overview: The gang attends a radio station amateur show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-25
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Free Wheeling
Overview: Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-30
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Birthday Blues
Overview: Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-12
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Mush and Milk
Overview: When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-27
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The Beloved Brat
Overview: 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 business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-30
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Grand Jury
Overview: 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 and put behind bars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-07
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Two-Gun Man from Harlem
Overview: 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 infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.
Genres: Action Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-01
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Kid Millions
Overview: A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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Broken Strings
Overview: After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Camp Meetin'
Overview: 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 order to raise the funds needed to send the church pastor, played by Clinton Rosemond, to a church conference in Birmingham, Alabama.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-08
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Hallelujah
Overview: A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-20
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The Cracked Ice Man
Overview: Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-27
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Fly My Kite
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-30
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Beginner's Luck
Overview: Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-23
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The First Round-Up
Overview: 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 and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-05
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Teacher's Pet
Overview: Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-11
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Love Business
Overview: Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-14
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Helping Grandma
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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Little Daddy
Overview: Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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School's Out
Overview: 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 children mistake him for a suitor. The children tell abominable lies about Miss Crabtree to try to discourage the man. Meanwhile, one of the children is selling answers to the upcoming oral exam. Unfortunately for the students, the young entrepreneur used a book of minstrelsy and blackface as his source for the "answers".
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-21
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Show Boat
Overview: 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 book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-27
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Dogs Is Dogs
Overview: Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-21
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The Great Man Votes
Overview: In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
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Way Down South
Overview: 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 treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-21
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Swanee River
Overview: 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, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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Kentucky
Overview: 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 the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Rainbow on the River
Overview: A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Big Ears
Overview: Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-28
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Huckleberry Finn
Overview: Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-25
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Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse
Overview: A behind the scenes look at Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies, complete with interviews from several former cast and crew members of the series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-12
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Stormy Weather
Overview: The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-21
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Mama's Little Pirate
Overview: The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Anniversary Trouble
Overview: The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-13
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Washee Ironee
Overview: 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 him clean up.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-13
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The Return of Frank James
Overview: Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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Pray TV
Overview: A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-23
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Dead Reckoning
Overview: War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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Fallen Angel
Overview: An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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Jezebel
Overview: In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-26
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Forgotten Babies
Overview: While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-11
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A Lad an' a Lamp
Overview: The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-17
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Hearts in Dixie
Overview: Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-02
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The Little Rascals' Christmas Special
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-03
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My Best Girl
Overview: Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-31
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Hook and Ladder
Overview: The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-27
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Hi'–Neighbor!
Overview: The gang decides to build their own fire engine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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Readin' and Writin'
Overview: Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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For Pete's Sake!
Overview: The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-13
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Shrimps for a Day
Overview: A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-07
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Bedtime Worries
Overview: Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-08
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Shiver My Timbers
Overview: The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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The Pooch
Overview: The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-11
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Choo-Choo!
Overview: The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-07
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Belle Starr
Overview: After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-12
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Spanky
Overview: While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-25
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The Burning Cross
Overview: Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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Slave Ship
Overview: Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-16
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A Day at Santa Anita
Overview: Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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Four Parts
Overview: Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-17
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It's Good to Be Alive
Overview: This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959. Cinematographer Ted Voigtlander was Emmy-nominated.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-22
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Penrod and Sam
Overview: A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-28
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Bargain Day
Overview: Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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Free Eats
Overview: The kids help capture a family of thieves.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-13
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Reunion in Rhythm
Overview: The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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The Kid from Borneo
Overview: The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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Rascal Dazzle
Overview: The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jerry Lewis, Music by Nelson Riddle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Truck Turner
Overview: Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-26
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The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)
Overview: Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! All films in this fantastic collection have been fully-restored and are presented here in beautiful COLOR! 1. Fly My Kite, 2. A Lad an' a Lamp, 3. Kid From Borneo, 4. Hi Neighbor, 5. Hide and Shriek
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-01
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The Buddy Holly Story
Overview: A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Holly and his band, the Crickets, are first invited to record in Nashville, where they encounter creative differences with the producing staff. Later they play a major booking at the Apollo Theater, scheduled there under the mistaken assumption that they're a black band. Holly's career eventually goes solo -- until the tragic day the music dies.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-18
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
Overview: After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Teacher's Beau
Overview: The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
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The Littlest Rebel
Overview: Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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