Matthew Beard Movies

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

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...

Wrongfully accused of murder, a cowboy winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He...

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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...

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

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.

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,...

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.

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

This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. It deals specifically with how, after his...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing...

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

The gang decides to build their own fire engine.