The best George McFarland’s family movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best George McFarland’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about George McFarland.
Fishy Tales
7.3/10
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.
Spooky Hooky
6.9/10
The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher's desk so they can go to the circus, then have to get it back when they find out that the class was going on a field trip to the circus anyway.
Clown Princes
6.5/10
The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and avoid getting evicted.
General Spanky
5.9/10
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
Waldo's Last Stand
5.7/10
The gang offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their clubhouse as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage an elaborate floor show, with Darla Hood as the star vocalist.
Robot Wrecks
5.8/10
Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are inspired to create a robot themselves to do their chores for them. Slicker Walburn convinces them they will need "invisible rays" to bring it to life which he just happens to have to sell to them. As they rush off to get their money, Slicker gets Boxcar Smith to wear the robot's outer body so when he "brings" the robot to life, it will be Boxcar bringing it to life. The gang unsuspectedly gets their robot to mow the lawn at Froggy's house, but with a signal from Slicker, Boxcar runs amok and mows down everything in his path. Froggy gets to explain what happened to his parents who bust up the fraud and get the miscreants to work with the gang to clean up the mess.
Honky Donkey
7.2/10
Wally, the rich kid of Our Gang team, brings his pet mule along with the gang back home.
Good Bad Boys
6.2/10
Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.
Mama's Little Pirate
7.8/10
The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.
Beginner's Luck
7.4/10
Spanky's mother's pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.
Surprised Parties
5.6/10
Since Froggy was born on Leap Year Day, he's upset that he only gets a birthday party once every four years. So, the gang decide to have a surprise party for him.
Sprucin' Up
7.2/10
A new truant officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his daughter.
The Our Gang Story
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
Reunion in Rhythm
6.7/10
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
Bubbling Troubles
6.8/10
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
Anniversary Trouble
7/10
The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.
Wedding Worries
5.8/10
The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.
Teacher's Beau
7.3/10
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from geting married.
Men in Fright
6.6/10
The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues.
Baby Blues
5.9/10
Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born is Chinese. Spanky and the gang then visit a Chinese friend and learn that kids are kids, no matter where they are from.
