Matthew 'Stymie' Beard Hercules as Hercules …. Scotty Beckett Scotty as Scotty Tommy Bond Butch as Butch …. Norman 'Chubby' Chaney Chubby as Chubby Joe Cobb Joe as Joe John 'Uh huh' Collum Uh-huh as Uh-huh Jackie Condon Jackie as Jackie Jean Darling Jean as Jean Dorothy DeBorba Dorothy as Dorothy Pete the Dog Pete as Pete Jackie Lyn Dufton Jacquie as Jacquie Darla Hood Cookie as Cookie ….
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Top review. By this time, Spanky was becoming the star of the series and often appeared to open the titles of several shorts. Scott Beckett had moved on to features, but by this time, he had been replaced by Carl Switzer as Alfalfa as Spanky's best friend and partner in michief. The shorts of this time particularly focused on the antics of Spanky, Alfalfa and Darla and the fickle romantics of Alfalfa and Darla.
Buckwheat and Porky were the little kids too young to understand what was going on but with a better grasp of the situation, much as Spanky and Scottie were in previous shorts to Dickie, Stymie and Wally. The shorts also showed Spanky throwing big kiddie shows in the cellar and barn of his property.
For the first time, the Rascals proved they weren't just funny, but they could sing and dance as well. Alfalfa's off-key warbling was another recurring joke of the time. In an unprecedented move, Tommy Bond was brought back as the bully, Butch , joined by Sidney Kibrick , whose older brother had played the bully to Wally Albright and Stymie Beard.
Tommy had left the series just before Robert McGowan left for the last time. McGowan did think Tommy was unique enough and let him go at the end of his contract, but as Hal Roach and Gordon Douglas were looking for someone to play a bully, they recalled Tommy and brought him back.
Despite his on-screen persona as a bully, Tommy and Carl Switzer became close friends, but things were not as pleasant between Carl and George's parents often arguing over their screen time and number of lines.
Another character brought along was Darwood Kaye as Waldo. Basically a peripheral character to the main storyline, a voice of reason to the others, he was an unexpected cog in the on-again-and-off-again wooing between Alfalfa and Darla. Darla was always using Waldo and even Butch to make Alfalfa jealous. With Alfalfa becoming the star, Spanky briefly departed and was conspicuously missing from five shorts, returning later in Aladdin's Lantern.
Despite the success and popularity of Our Gang , theaters were dropping shorts and focusing on main features. The shorts dropped from two-reel twenty minutes to one reel. Laurel and Hardy stopped doing shorts to do features films, as did the Rascals. Their first feature film, General Spanky , however, was not a great success, possibly because it focused on the adult leads more than the Rascals.
Hal Roach was also debating on ending Our Gang ; the unsuccessful feature film had been suggested by Louis B. Although the shorts were still doing success as one-reels, profit margins on the series declined and Hal Roach was just able to afford to keep making the shorts. Roach gave up his beloved Rascals to M-G-M with the proviso that he was not allowed to create or produce another kiddie comedy like Our Gang. This was pretty much the start of the beginning of the end.
Without Hal Roach, Our Gang became exactly what Hal Roach had vehemently resisted: creating another round of casual child actors. The studio was also trying to go for a more continuity-friendly series of shorts, quite unlike the haphazard style of writers at Hal Roach Studios who could never keep track of the style and depictions of the increasingly broad Our Gang universe being conjured by their peers. However, but in trying to create some sort of continuity, they mistreated the shorts by using them as a jumping-off place training area for prospective directors.
None of the directors during this time had the magic of Robert F. McGowan or the vision of Gordon Douglas and it showed as the Rascals found themselves struggling for the first time to act. Eugene Lee , who played Porky , as well as the rest of the child talents all felt the palpable difference in studios. They had gone from being treated like kids to be treated like child actors.
Another difference was that the majority of the shorts were being written and created by Robert A. McGowan, had very little talent. He had been the director of a few lackluster shorts in the late Twenties, but he showed even less talent as a writer. Dropping his previous name to go as Robert A.
McGowan must have confused fans who thought he was one and the same person as his uncle. Fans of Our Gang and film historians both agree along with the Rascals themselves that the shorts created during the M-G-M years were far worse than even the weakest Hal Roach shorts. The performances were described as stilted, the lines were delivered stiffly and stories were more like grammar school moral films of the Fifties, which were probably based on them.
Hal Roach had avoided over-rehearsed child performers for locating natural kids with natural talent, but too many of the latter now inundated the series. Furthermore, the regular Our Gang stars were starting to turn into gawky teenagers and were gradually being let go.
Darwood Kaye left after Waldo's Last Stand. George McFarland was forced to stay until he was fourteen, finally leaving after Unexpected Riches , just twenty one-reelers short of the last Our Gang. The last short was Dancing Romeo ; the following short, Home Front Commandos , cancelled during filming.
There seemed to be a number of determining factors in the end of Our Gang. For one, it had lost the magic that was the combined talents of Hal Roach and Robert McGowan 's partnership. These two giants had a vision of a creation that they had started and carried through almost two hundred shorts. Anthony Mack didn't seem to have that vision, nor did any of the writing staff at M-G-M.
Two, the majority of the M-G-M shorts had an over-handed moralizing mentality. The studio did not seem to be aware that the primary fans of the shorts were kids watching kids like themselves living grand adventures that no child could ever have. They did not want to be lectured to or preached to on subjects they were force-fed at home and in school. Three, the majority of the series' top-stars were gone. Both Roach and McGowan had carefully picked youths with a "certain look" and charm to round out their series.
If it had not been for Stymie 's charm to pick up after Farina or for Buckwheat after Stymie, Our Gang might not have lasted as long as it did. Spanky was the second to last major character to stay in the series with Buckwheat staying through to the end, and even then, William Thomas Jr. By the end, he was alone with Robert Blake who would later called his Rascals experience as "forced child labor," Janet Burston - a saccharin-coated Shirley Temple clone with little acting talent and even less singing ability and William Laughlin - an unfortunate charming young man who possibly was never comfortable using his handicap for the sake of comedy.
One has to wonder what Hal Roach thought of the young child actors that would bring his cherished Rascals to a close. Hal Roach had sold Our Gang with the option to buy back the rights if he did not create any more "kiddie comedies," but he forfeited that right in order to try and re-create Our Gang from scratch.
He created and released Curley and Who Killed Doc Robbin with two entirely new ensembles of child actors, one of whom was Rene Beard , Matthew Beard 's brother, but fans of Our Gang did not see the connection of the Cine-Color featurettes and the movies failed critically and financially.
His next course of action was to buy back Our Gang, and in , M-G-M sold Hal Roach the rights to the to silent and sound shorts, but M-G-M retained the rights to the Our Gang name, the one Our Gang feature film General Spanky and the less than favored to films they had produced.
Before now, "The Little Rascals" had referred to the kids starring in Our Gang which was the name of the series, but now, it was the name of the new Rascals series. Beginning in , "The Little Rascals" was the name of the reborn Our Gang franchise in theaters, but a bigger explosion was about to come. As a syndicated television series, "The Little Rascals" renewed the popularity of the Rascals to completely new audiences.
Their new popularity on television launched whole new Rascals memorabilia in the form of comic books, toys and merchandise. It is not a goof by the film makers, but rather by those who released the film in Full Frame format. Brittany Ashton Holmes' name was said 3 times during the credits. Alternate versions Original theatrical prints and subsequent broadcastings on ABC and Freeform are longer by several minutes, with the following additional material: Porky and Buckwheat both figure out through Petey that the note is for an emergency meeting.
Additional dialogue between Alfalfa and Darla on the boat. Right before the clubhouse fire, Stymie remarks "What's that smell? During the clubhouse fire, a fire truck shows up which the rascals think is for them, but it drives past and turns down another street. Additional dialogue during the court scene. The gag with the two bearded men at the bank is taken further. When Buckwheat is searching for the note for Darla, she also adds: "Is this going to take all day?
When Alfalfa asks to be in the talent show, Ms. Crabtree says that they're all booked up. Alfalfa then lies and says his aunt would die if she didn't hear him sing. Darla confronts Alfalfa after he sings at the talent show and Alfalfa replies that he heard her compliment him, inadvertently revealing that it was him at the ballet recital.
Waldo then tells Alfalfa that he's entered in the race. During the building of 'The New Blur' montage, two of the club members steal the wheels off of a baby carriage. User reviews 73 Review. Top review. I love this movie. To me it's one best kids movies ever, it just brings you back to those innocent times of being a child.
It's fun, its cool, its when you start to notice girls for the 1st time. This is one for the ages. It still resonates with young kids today. It has genuine performances by child actors.
It is everything you want in a kids movie and more. Details Edit. Release date August 5, United States. United States. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit.
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