Product Details

• Actors: George 'Spanky' McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Ralph Morgan, Irving Pichel, Rosina Lawrence
• Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Gordon Douglas
• Writers: Carl Harbaugh, Hal Yates, John Guedel, Richard Flournoy
• Producers: Hal Roach
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: February 3, 1998
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302148626
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,621 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Modern children love this movie, September 6, 2002

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Christopher Mckeon (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: General Spanky [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I watched this movie with my children, age 5 and 8, and they loved it. I've never seen them react to any other movie as they did to this one. They were kicking their feet with the pain of suspense, they were squealing with delight as good triumphs over bad, they laughed their heads off at the jokes and gags, they were crying out to the characters to watch out for this bad guy and that bad guy, they felt Buckwheat's hungry stomach. If you're tired of the contemporary Disney trash and television cartoon junk, I recommend this movie. It's definitely NOT PC, it's a product of American society in 1936, but it's clearly child-friendly in my opinion. Enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The First (and Last) Our Gang Feature, November 7, 2009

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Scott T. Rivers (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: General Spanky [VHS] (VHS Tape)

With the 1935 success of Shirley Temple's "The Little Colonel," producer Hal Roach believed that a Civil War vehicle would make an ideal feature debut for the delightful antics of Our Gang. Unfortunately, Spanky, Buckwheat and Alfalfa take a back seat to the adult leads in this well-made but rather hackneyed melodrama. Even worse, the Gang look awkwardly out of place in a period setting - an experiment Roach never repeated. The critical and commercial failure of "General Spanky" (1936) proved that short subjects were Our Gang's forte.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good family fun, December 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: General Spanky [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I saw this movie with some friends of mine and we could not stop laughing! It is such a wholesome fun movie. For anyone who likes old movies, this is definetly one to own. Good for all ages. B&W and full of heart