Matthew Beard Movies

A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which...

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses...

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's...

Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200...

Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.

While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."