General Spanky

General Spanky

Infobox Film
name = General Spanky


image_size = 150px
caption = Cover for VHS release of "General Spanky".
director = Fred Newmeyer
Gordon Douglas
writer = Richard Flournoy
John Guedel
Carl Harbaugh
Hal Yates
starring = George "Spanky" McFarland
Phillips Holmes
Rosina Lawrence
Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
producer = Hal Roach
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
music = Marvin Hatley
cinematography = Art Lloyd
Walter Lundin
released = December 11, 1936
runtime = 71 min.
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = "Spooky Hooky"
followed_by = "Reunion in Rhythm"
amg_id = 1:19359
imdb_id = 0027665

"General Spanky" is a 1936 motion picture produced by Hal Roach. Its the 150th Our gang episode made and originally released to theatres on December 11, 1936 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

Notes

"General Spanky" was based in the Civil War period. It was also the one agreed feature per year that Hal Roach agreed to produce for MGM. It was also intended as an experiment to determine if Roach could move "Our Gang" into features, as the double feature and block booking were slowly smothering his short subjects production. The film was such a box office disappointment that MGM determined that Roach would no longer have to produce any more features with Our Gang but would instead produce the usual amount of one reelers plus one two reeler for the 1937 to 1938 season and the 1938 to 1939 season.

At the end of the 1938 to 1938 season, Roach announced that he would end Our Gang after one more year of shorts production, Roach ended up selling the "Our Gang" unit to MGM in May of 1938.

The film is also not part of the syndicated Little Rascals television package and never was. In fact, when Hal Roach bough back the rights of the films he produced for MGM, General Spanky was not included and MGM continued to retain ownership of this film. It was syndicated with the 52 MGM produced Our Gang episodes. Its also never been released on DVD but was available in the 1990's on VHS.

Cast

* George McFarland - Spanky
* Billie Thomas - Buckwheat
* Carl Switzer - Alfalfa
* Eugene/Gordon Lee - Porky
* Jerry Tucker
* Tommy McFarland
* Harold Switzer
* Flaette Roberts
* Rex Downing
* Dickie DeNuet
* Phillip Hurlic
* Von The Dog
* Rosina Lawrence
* Ralph Morgan - Yankee General
* Phillips Holmes
* Irving Pichel - Simmons The Gambler
* James Burtis - Boat Captain
* Louise Beavers - Mammy Cornella
* Hobart Bosworth - 2nd Lieutenant
* Buddy Roosevelt - 1st Lieutenant
* Walter Gregory - Captain Haden
* Willie Best - Henry the lazy slave
* Jack Daugherty - General's Aid
* Robert Middlemass - overseer
* Henry Hall - Slavemaster
* Hooper Atchley - Slavemaster
* Karl Hackett
* Frank LaRule
* Ernie Alexander
* Jack Hill
* Ham Kinsley
* Jack Cooper (not Jackie Cooper)
* Slim Whittaker
* Harry Bernard

External links

*imdb title|0027665


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