The best Mary Kornman’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Mary Kornman’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 Mary Kornman.
Zenobia
6/10
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Flying Down to Rio
6.6/10
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
College Humor
5.9/10
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Air-Tight
5.8/10
The college aerial club is at the airfield to inaugurate a new glider. Alabam gets a lot of teasing for being a "land lizard," never wanting to fly. Mary takes him aside to boost his spirits and offers to take his photo if he'll sit on a glider parked nearby. Dave is ready to take the club's glider up, but Mickey hooks the wrong rope to his car and pulls Alabam into the air. He hasn't a clue what to do; below, Mickey and Dave try to shout instructions while the glider's owner gives chase. What goes up . . .
Good Cheer
6.8/10
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.
The Buccaneers
6.4/10
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
The Knockout
5.4/10
When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.
Big Business
6.6/10
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Mohawk! Scenes involving close calls with sharp scissors might make some viewers wince, while the manicurist uses a device that looks like a wire-cutter.
Shootin' Injuns
6.4/10
Shootin' Injuns is a 1925 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 38th Our Gang short subject released.
Thundering Fleas
5.8/10
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Call a Cop!
6.4/10
The boyfriends rush into action when the girlfriends think there's a burglar in the house.
Dogs of War!
6.4/10
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
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.
It's a Bear
6.5/10
The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a while so they decide to try and track a bear. Soon the bear is stalking them!
The Little Rascals - Bear Shooters, Waldo's Last Stand, Dogs of War
The Gang goes on a camping trip as "Bear Shooters" in which Chubby greases Wheezer with Limburger, then puts on a floor show in a barn to try to sell a reluctant Froggy some lemonade in "Waldo's Last Stand". The silent "Dogs of War!" depicts the great battle of Kelly's tomato patch waged by "Stonewall" Jackie and "Private" Farina, then the Gang tries to get wok in the movies, driving director Harold Lloyd to distraction.
Reunion in Rhythm
6.7/10
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
The Little Rascals - The Pooch, Arbor Day, Derby Day
Stymie, Spanky and the Gang have to save Pete from the dog catcher's gas chamber in "The Pooch", while Spanky and Alfalfa headline the school pageant with a pair of midgets mistaken for children on "Arbor Day". In the 1923 silent "Derby Day", the Gang is selling hot dogs and lemonade outside the racetrack when Mickie hits upon an idea of holding their own race--between a mule, a horse, a cow, a doh, a goat and a bicycle.
Too Many Women
5.6/10
College baseball player Mickey Daniels can't keep his mind on the game when he's got an eye for the ladies.
