Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater's amateur night.Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater's amateur night.Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater's amateur night.
George 'Spanky' McFarland
- Spanky
- (as Our Gang)
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
- Stymie
- (as Our Gang)
Scotty Beckett
- Scotty
- (as Our Gang)
Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas
- Buckwheat
- (as Our Gang)
Jerry Tucker
- Jerry
- (as Our Gang)
Eileen Bernstein
- Our Gang member
- (as Our Gang)
Alvin Buckelew
- Alvin
- (as Our Gang)
Sidney Kibrick
- Our Gang member
- (as Our Gang)
Cecelia Murray
- Our Gang member
- (as Our Gang)
Donald Proffitt
- Our Gang member
- (as Our Gang)
Merrill Strong
- Our Gang member
- (as Our Gang)
Marianne Edwards
- Daisy Dimple
- (as Our Gang)
Pete the Dog
- Pete
- (as Our Gang)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCarl 'Alfalfa" Switzer and his brother Harold had been in the Our Gang cafe, which was open to the public. They were performing and entertaining the crowd. One of the spectators was assistant director Gordon Douglas (I). He liked what he saw, and immediately wrote the brothers into this film. The next year he will discover Darla Hood in a similar situation.
- GoofsWhen Spanky's Mother first gets down to kneel to try to save her son she lifts up her dress and it's clear she is not wearing a slip. When is is down trying to pull him in you can see her panty line. Later as she is being pulled out on the stage you can see the slip peaking out from under her dress.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Our Gang Story (1994)
Featured review
There are many Our Gang shorts that I love dearly, and many that bring a smile or a warm feeling inside. Out of all of them, this is the one that can truly cause me to laugh out loud.
Of course, the laughter of the audience is infectious and tends to help things along, but Spanky's continued stumbling about as one disaster after another befalls him is priceless.
Something to note about the reviews: one reviewer, who has posted under several different names here, is clearly obsessed with this film. I have encountered him over the years on other forums besides this one, and his thoughts on "Beginner's Luck" remain the same. He can be identified (across his multiple identities) by his habit of not putting spaces after periods — and alternately, of putting a space BEFORE a comma and none after!
Leaving aside the content of his reviews, how anyone who reads the English language could get the idea that it can or should be written this way is beyond me.
Of course, the laughter of the audience is infectious and tends to help things along, but Spanky's continued stumbling about as one disaster after another befalls him is priceless.
Something to note about the reviews: one reviewer, who has posted under several different names here, is clearly obsessed with this film. I have encountered him over the years on other forums besides this one, and his thoughts on "Beginner's Luck" remain the same. He can be identified (across his multiple identities) by his habit of not putting spaces after periods — and alternately, of putting a space BEFORE a comma and none after!
Leaving aside the content of his reviews, how anyone who reads the English language could get the idea that it can or should be written this way is beyond me.
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- May 7, 2015
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Details
- Runtime20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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