Movies: Robert F. McGowan

After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own....

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

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

The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine....

The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead....

Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle....

One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins was a series of gags built around the unenviable ritual of returning to school during the first week of September. School begins and some gang members are...

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

An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help....

Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room....

Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals....

When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money....

Little Mother is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Little Mother was the 87th Our Gang short to be released. A silent film, it followed Our G...

Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret....

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

The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area. True to his word, after Joe and Chubby's father leaves, a crazy man starts a train with most of the...

When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle range. When Wilton kills a rancher, Brent is blamed and jailed. Escaping jail he gets Ware to confess that...

As a joke, several members of the gang convince Farina, who is "brave but superstitious", that he's caused the demise of a young acquaintance and must therefore lay the body (actually still very alive) to rest in the old burying ground, under the wat...

Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have troubles trying to find the tunnel entrance - planning their next game, which will be a Wild West shootout. They run into some obstacles in playing t...

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage....