Movies: Robert F. McGowan

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

It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by A...

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...

An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help....

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....

Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town....

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

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....

Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. Farina is having a very bad day, especially by his friends-very cruel playing nasty tricks, etc. Heeding h...

While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all....

After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own....

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose....

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

This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call themselves the Cluck Cluck Clams. There is nothing racist about their lodge, which includes member Sunshi...

Farina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear he's been murdered and think they'll get the blame....

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

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

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

Whiskey smuggler Dubec, trades liquor to the Indians, takes revenge on the Royal North West Mounted Police pursuing him by killing the wife of post commander Sergeant Delisle and abducting his teen-aged daughter Nonette....

Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a large vacant lot. Mickey's got big plans for expansion when surveyors show up to begin work on a factory. The gang travels by donkey cart to the office ...