Richard Flournoy John Guedel Carl Harbaugh Hal Yates
Produced by
Hal Roach
Starring
George McFarland Phillips Holmes Rosina Lawrence Billie Thomas Carl Switzer
Cinematography
Art Lloyd Walter Lundin
Music by
Marvin Hatley
Production company
Hal Roach Studios
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
December 11, 1936 (1936-12-11)
Running time
71 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
General Spanky is a 1936 American comedy film produced by Hal Roach. A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Rosina Lawrence, Billie Thomas and Carl Switzer. Directed by Fred Newmeyer and Gordon Douglas, it was originally released to theaters on December 11, 1936, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
This film, a Civil War period piece, was intended as an experiment to determine if Roach could move Our Gang into features, as the double feature and block booking were slowly smothering his short subjects production. The film was a box-office disappointment and, after another year of shorts production, Roach ended up selling the Our Gang unit to MGM in May 1938.
When Roach bought the rights to the back catalog of Our Gang films he had produced from MGM in 1949, he did not buy back the rights to General Spanky. The film was part of the pre-May 1986 MGM catalog acquired in 1986 by Turner Entertainment Co., which holds the rights today as a subsidiary of Warner Bros. General Spanky was released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1991. In 2016, it was released on DVD in Region 1 by Warner Bros. via their Warner Archive Collection.
GeneralSpanky is a 1936 American comedy film produced by Hal Roach. A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George McFarland...
In addition to his work in Our Gang and its feature-film spin-off GeneralSpanky (1936), McFarland regularly appeared in co-starring or supporting juvenile...
continued until 1944. Across 220 short films and a feature-film spin-off, GeneralSpanky, the Our Gang series featured more than 41 child actors as regular members...
replacement until Dickie Moore took over) Jerry Tucker George McFarland as Spanky Dickie Moore (Became Jackie Cooper's replacement) Jacquie Lyn John Collum...
the two-reel format. Also in 1936, an Our Gang feature-length film, GeneralSpanky, was released. Many of the shorts were edited for television over the...
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the original shorts. On the last day of school before summer vacation, Spanky, Alfalfa, Mary Ann, and Stymie try to leave early by having Buckwheat and...
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1931 to begin work that upcoming fall, at around the same time as George "Spanky" McFarland was hired. Bond worked in Our Gang for three years, alternately...
on-screen leader. In the following episode, George McFarland made his debut as "Spanky", enthralling Roach and McGowan so much that they took the unprecedented...
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