Matthew Beard Movies

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which...

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,...

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased...

Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his...

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

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

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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...

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the...

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

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

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 attends a radio station amateur show.

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...

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

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.