Matthew Beard Movies

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 kids help capture a family of thieves.

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...

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

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

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

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

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

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.

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...