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Musical Justice (1931)

musical film

Musical Justice stars Rudy Vallée as judge and His Connecticut Yankees as jury presiding over the Court of Musical Justice. The judge hears three separate cases. The final case is the State vs.

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Time Out for Lessons (1939)

comedy film

Afalfa is preparing for a football game with the gang before his father takes him aside to talk about his poor grades. Alfalfa is told that he has a lot of Grade "D" on his tests and unless he improves his academic standing he'll never get…

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Slappily Married (1946)

comedy film

Dress shop owner Joe Bates is a happily married man who dreads Friday the 13th. Fearing the worst, Joe decides to stay home to avoid any catastrophes, but his wife tells him that he is being superstitious. Joe agrees with her and decides t…

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Little Miss Pinkerton (1943)

comedy film

The janitor of the Greenpoint department store is murdered during a robbery, while Mickey, Froggy, Buckwheat, and Janet witness the crime. The thieves take the boys hostage, but Janet escapes and heads for the police. Alas, no grownup will…

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Clown Princes (1939)

comedy film

When the gang goes to Porky's house, they learn that his family is in danger of eviction unless they pay their landlord the balance remaining on their rent. The gang decides to raise the money by setting up a circus in Porky's barn, with S…

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Madame Blueberry (1998)

The show opens with Larry the Cucumber driving onto the countertop in a brand-new "Soo-Vee Action Jeep", which Larry has been wanting for a long time. Though Bob the Tomato thinks that Larry's now happy, the cucumber admits that he won't b…

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Thar She Blows! (1931)

documentary film

The action takes place at Point Close station, 500 miles north of Perth. A steamer sights a whale, plunges a harpoon into it, then draws the carcass to the ship's side, whereupon it is attacked by a school of sharks. The whale is towed ash…

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Lord of the Beans (2005)

"Lord of the Beans" begins with the arrival of Randalf in the Shire for Billboy Baggypants' 122nd birthday party . Billboy talks about retiring and leaving the Shire and uses a strange bean to produce a birthday cake. Returning to his home…

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Helping Hands (1941)

comedy film

Spanky receives a letter from his recently drafted older brother. Inspired by the letter's patriotic sentiments, Spanky and the gang organize a "home guard," prepared to do battle should the Nazis invade California. This attracts the atten…

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The Awful Tooth (1938)

comedy film

Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Porky, and Spike in need of money to purchase baseball equipment, devise a scheme: they will have all their teeth pulled out, which they calculate will earn them one dime per tooth from the tooth fairy. Their dentist he…

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Ye Olde Minstrels (1941)

comedy film

To raise money for the local chapter of the Red Cross, the gang stages an old-fashioned minstrel show with the help of Froggy's uncle, played by real-life minstrel man Walter Wills. The show is a success, netting the Red Cross $208.40.

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Tiny Troubles (1939)

comedy film

Alfalfa has a loud crying baby brother that he wants to get rid of. When out with the gang he sees what he thinks is a baby in a carriage. He puts his baby brother in that carriage and takes this "baby" back home.

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The Big Premiere (1940)

comedy film

The gang unintentionally wreaks havoc at the gala Hollywood premiere of the adventure epic Gun Boats. Chased away by the angry authorities, the undaunted kids decide to stage their own movie premiere—and they even film a movie for the occa…

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Robot Wrecks (1941)

Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film

Slicker sells the Our Gang kids some "invisible rays," with which they hope to power their homemade mechanical robot. Miracle of miracles, the robot not only begins to move, but actually performs several of the gang's household chores. In …

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Open Your Eyes (2008)

Struggling to come to terms with her life and husband (Eric Lange) after breast cancer, Julia (Traci Dinwiddie) gets more than she bargained for when she attends a bridal shower and finds herself locked in a bathroom with Kat (Suzy Nakamur…

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Men in Fright (1938)

comedy film

Darla has had a tonsillectomy, and the gang, announcing themselves as "Third Ward Sunshine Spredders Club", go to the hospital to pay her a visit. They bring with them a large picnic basket full of food that they know Darla can't eat, inte…

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Bubbling Over (1934)

musical film

Samson Peabody is the janitor in an apartment building where he and his wife Ethel live with a large crowd of Samson's freeloading relatives. When more relatives come to stay, Ethel throws them out. A scheming occupant of the building read…

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Enigma (2009)

science fiction film

{{Advert}} Floating dead in space, transport ship Genesis become an unsolvable mystery. All hands on board have been killed. What began as a simple transport mission for the crew of the Genesis, ends with not only their bloodshed, but the …

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Good Bad Boys (1940)

comedy film

Slicker steals an orange from a fruit stand, and Alfalfa is wrongfully accused and punished for it. An angry Alfalfa decides to get even with his parents by embarking upon a life of crime. To that end, he enlists the other kids as his "mob…

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Miss Grant Goes to the Door (1940)

propaganda film

The film opens with sisters Caroline and Edith Grant preparing to shelter in their cellar following an air raid warning. When a man in uniform collapses outside their cottage, they bring him into their home and lay him down on their sofa. …

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A Ninja Pays Half My Rent (2003)

ninja film

When your roommate dies from an allergic reaction to fruit and the rent is due and you don't have the cash to cover it, there's no time to mess around picking a new roommate. So it goes that our hero in this short comes to share his home w…

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The End of Silliness? (1998)

Because one of Larry's silly songs, "The Song of the Cebu" was so silly and confusing, Archibald Asparagus has replaced Silly Songs with Larry with "Love Songs with Mr. Lunt" which makes Larry very depressed and to drown his sorrows in Jim…

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Smith (1939)

documentary film

John Smith (Ralph Richardson) fought for his country in World War I. But during the depression of the 1930s he found it hard to find work. Finally the bailiffs appear and take everything of value.

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