Matthew Beard Movies

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

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

Wrongfully accused of murder, a cowboy winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He...

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 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...

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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,...

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

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.

The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.