Matthew Beard Movies

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

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

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

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

The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

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

The gang decides to build their own fire engine.

The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.

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...

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...