Matthew Beard Movies

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls...

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

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...

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."

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

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

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

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

Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

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

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

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

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

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

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,...

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

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

The kids help capture a family of thieves.