Matthew Beard Movies

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,...

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

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...

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

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,...

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...

When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.

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

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

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