Matthew Beard Movies

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...

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

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

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,...

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.

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

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

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which...

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.

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...

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...

The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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