Matthew Beard Movies

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

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

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early...

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

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

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...

When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty...

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...

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

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...

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.

When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.

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 puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.

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

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

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...