Good Bad Boys is a 1940 Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

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Short subject

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 comedy film

Comedy film

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 directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 192nd Our Gang short (193rd episode, 104th talking short, 105th talking episode, and 24th MGM produced episode) that was released.

Plot

This is another morality lesson in a long string of such films. After Slicker steals and Alfalfa is wrongfully accused of it, an angry Alfalfa decides to get even with his parents by embarking upon a life of crime. To that end, he enlists the other kids as his "mob." Hoping to deflect his pals from this drastic action, Spanky McFarland decides to teach the gang a lesson. He tricks the kids into thinking they're burglarizing a house, when in fact they're merely helping the homeowners clean out their junk. Things take an unexpected turn when a real-life fugitive from justice chooses the gang's clubhouse as his hideout, with the cops hot on his heels. Assuming they burgled a house, Alfalfa and the gang are caught by the police and confess they did the crime, not knowing what the real crime committed by a real criminal was. The next morning they are arraigned and Spanky comes in with Mrs. Wilson to explain what had really happened. Meanwhile, Slicker is being arraigned with his mother for what seems to be an unrelated crime. For Alfalfa, Spanky, and the rest of the gang, everything is solved.

Cast

• George McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
   - Spanky
• Carl Switzer
  Carl Switzer
  Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...
  
   - Alfalfa
• Mickey Gubitosi
  Robert Blake (actor)
  Robert Blake is an American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death.-Early...
  
   (later known as Robert Blake) - Mickey
• Billie Thomas - Buckwheat
• Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy is an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1938 to 1941....
  
   - Leonard
• Freddie Walburn - Slicker
• Byron Foulger - store owner, Mr. Stephens
• Al Hill
  Al Hill (actor)
  Al Hill was an American film character actor who appeared in over 320 films between 1927 and 1954, including the 1951 film The Girl on the Bridge.Hill died in 1954 on his 62nd birthday.-References:...
  
   - burglar
• George Lessey
  George Lessey
  George Lessey was an American actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in 123 films between 1910 and 1946. He also directed 76 films between 1913 and 1922. Lessey also appeared in the original Broadway production of Porgy and Bess in one of the few white roles, that of the lawyer Mr...
  
   - Judge Kincaid
• Joe Young
  Joe Young
  Joe Young was a lyricist. He was born in New York. Young was most active from 1911 through the late-1930s, beginning his career working as a singer and songplugger for various music publishers. During World War I, he entertained the U.S...
  
   - Court Official
• Hugh Beaumont - Judge's assistant
• William Newell
  William Newell
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   - Alfalfa's father
• Barbara Bedford - Alfalfa's mother
• Emmett Vogan
  Emmett Vogan
  Emmett Vogan was an American actor with almost 500 film appearances from 1934–1954, making him one of the most prolific actors of all time.-External links:...
  
   - police officer
• Margaret Bert - Slicker's mother
• Liela McIntyre - Mrs. Wilson
• Harry Strang - banker