Matthew Beard Movies

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

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

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

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased...

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

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

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

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,...

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...

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

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...

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

Charley is one of four identical brothers, which drives his girlfriend nuts.

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...

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...

Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his...

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

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

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.

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the...