Matthew Beard Movies

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,...

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

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

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...

While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.

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

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

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

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting.

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

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

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