Matthew Beard Movies

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge....

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 help capture a family of thieves.

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...

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

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

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,...

The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.

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,...

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in...

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

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

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."

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 kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

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