Movies: Matthew Beard

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man....

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

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy be...

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....

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled....

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

The gang attends a radio station amateur show....

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

Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule....

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 and put behind bars....

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

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp....

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 South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's fa...

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

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is ...

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, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of...

This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. It deals specifically with how, after his severe stroke in 1919, she played an influential role in his administration. For the remainder of his ...

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it....

Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night....

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 business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands h...