Matthew Beard Movies

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...

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

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

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.

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

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...

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...

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."

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...