Matthew Beard Movies

Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely wa...

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

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

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

The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.

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

When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and...

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his busin...

A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He in...

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing mus...

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in orde...

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

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 boo...

Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.

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.

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls...