Matthew Beard Movies

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

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely...

The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses...

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

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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.

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

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

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...

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

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