Matthew Beard Movies

Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

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,...

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 young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

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.

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200...

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

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

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

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

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,...

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