When the Wind Blows (1930 film)

When the Wind Blows (1930 film)

Infobox Film
name = When the Wind Blows


image_size =
caption =
director = James W. Horne
producer = Robert F. McGowan
Hal Roach
writer = Robert A. McGowan
narrator =
starring =
music = Marvin Hatley
cinematography = Art Lloyd
editing = Richard C. Currier
distributor = MGM
released = 5 April, 1930
runtime = 20 minutes
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = "The First Seven Years"
followed_by = "Bear Shooters"
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0021546

"When the Wind Blows" is a 1930 "Our Gang" short comedy film directed by James W. Horne. cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225649/When-the-Wind-Blows/overview |title=New York Times: When the Wind Blows |accessdate=2008-09-19|work=NY Times] It was the 97th "Our Gang" short that was released.

Plot

Its a very windy spring night. A man tells Kennedy the cop that its a fine night for a murder or robbery. Farina is frightened but his mother still has to do laundry so he is left in a ramshackle house with windows so weak the wind blows through them. Jackie a few doors down is spanked by his father for refusing to do his homework. His little brother Wheezer is laughing at him. After being spanked Jackie throws his school book out the window. Later after he goes to bed and overhears his parents saying what a great kid he is and how they want him to grow up and be successful. Jackie, touched by this sentiment, climbs out the window to get his book. He tries to get back in but cannot opwn the window. As he is trying to get back in, he makes all sorts of noises causing more commotion in the neighborhood. When he manages to get in another window to Wheezer's room, Wheezer's dog, Pete pushes Jackie back out again. Jackie tries to break a window by throwing something but the wind blows the object to a nearby house and breaks a window there and wakes up Chubby and his parents. Mary Ann next door also wakes up. Jackie manages to get into Mary Ann's room but she throws him out as well. As he falls out of Mary Ann's window he lands on a real burglar knocking him out. Jackie is then considered a hero.

This is the first Our Gang film to feature a musical scoring. The music used is an orchestral scoring of songs that were then popular. These were not the jazz based scorings known on Our Gang films. That was still a few months away. It also marked Edgar Kennedy's last Our Gang appearance. All the scenes with Farina were cut in 1970 from the Little Rascals television print due to percieved racism but was reinstated on AMC's airings in 2001 to 2003.

Cast

* Jackie Cooper - Jack
* Bobby Hutchins - Wheezer
* Allen Hoskins - Farina (as Farina)
* Norman Chaney - Chubby
* Mary Ann Jackson - Mary Ann
* Betty Jane Beard - Hector
* Pete the Pup - Petie
* Edgar Kennedy - Kennedy the Cop
* Charles McAvoy - Henry, Jackie's Dad
* Mary Gordon - Chubby's Mother
* Harry Bernard - burglar
* Chet Brandenburg - Flustered Man
* Jackie's Mother - uncredited/unknown
* Emma Reed - Farina's Mother
* Julian Rivero - Henry, Jackie's Dad (Spanish language version)

ee also

* Our Gang filmography

References

External links

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