Matthew Beard Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

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...

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

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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