Matthew Beard Movies

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

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

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

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...

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

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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...

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

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

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...

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.

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,...