Movies: Robert F. McGowan

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

Living in an orphanage, the gang has to deal with Amanda, a child-hating spinster. To receive a bequest from a rich uncle, she must acquire a child. Thinking suspicion, the gang causes all kinds of havoc toward her including a mud battle....

One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins was a series of gags built around the unenviable ritual of returning to school during the first week of September. School begins and some gang members are...

The Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would actually mix it up. Harry and Farina notice a rivalry between two very large young kids, Joe and Chubby, that would fill the bill if only the two heavyweigh...

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....

The gang creates their own railroad after being chased from a local railyard, and competes with Toughie....

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

Wheezer likes to hit people on the nose, and his folks encourage him to do so. Then the Gang wandering off climbing atop a construction site while the builders have gone to lunch....

The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart. When the pony shies and runs away, Mickey comes to the rescue with his dog. In gratitude, Mary invites all the boys and their dogs t...

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

Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of getting back inside without his parents finding out. When his parents mistake his noises for a burgl...

Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has long vanished from the landscape being continued in Amish communities and such. We get kid-centric amu...

When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle range. When Wilton kills a rancher, Brent is blamed and jailed. Escaping jail he gets Ware to confess that...

The gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show....

On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Santa Claus really exists for those who wish fervently enough....

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

An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing....

Mickey Daniels doing an impersonation of Sherlock Holmes and Joe Cobb being Watson as the two try to discover the whereabouts of a young rich kids who has gone missing. While trying to find the kid the gang must also try and avoid a dumb detective al...

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates....

Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann....