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• Actors: Wally Albright, Sherwood Bailey, Bobbie 'Cotton' Beard, Carlena Beard, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
• Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Gordon Douglas, Gus Meins, James Parrott, James W. Horne
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Cabin Fever
• VHS Release Date: May 1, 1995
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6303113974
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #212,079 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars "The dress is in the bag.", April 20, 2008

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This review is from: Little Rascals 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The first of the Cabin Fever Little Rascals tapes, this excellent series gets started with a bang. "Fly My Kite" features a group of kids at Grandma's house. Grandma is an elderly woman with few friends besides the gang, and she adores having them around to read stories to and play games with. Unfortunately, her sweetness is taken advantage of by her son Dan who does all he can to swindle her. When he learns that some saving bonds she holds are worth a fortune, he lies about their value to collect for himself. It is too bad that the bonds are outside on the tail of Chubby's kite. Hilarity ensues as the gang fights off this menace of a man. This was the last time that Chubby and Mary Ann appeared in an Our Gang short, a symbol of the coming of a new era in the gang's cast.

"Honky-Donkey" features that new group of kids. Here we see Spanky and Scotty teamed up together as the wise youngsters who are never taken seriously. The gang has a mule named Algebra who gets riled up with a sneeze and who is calmed by a bell. The kids rig a makeshift merry-go-round with Algebra as the power. It all looks pretty fun to rich-kid Wally who insists he be allowed to play too. He has so much fun, he decides to take the mule and the kids home with him, which of course, turns out to be a disaster. Making an appearance is Tommy Bond before he became Butch of the later shorts.

"Beginner's Luck" is one of those great putting-on-a-show films with lots of music of the era. Spanky's mother fancies him to be a big shot actor and has him memorize Shakespeare to perform for her friends. She is so proud that she enters him into an ameatur night at the Ritz Theater. Determined not to have to read such "sissy" lines again, Spanky urges the gang to ruin him on stage. They all agree with enthusiasm, and on the big night are present in the first row with all of the noisemakers and spitballs in town. On goes the show! Specialty acts like Alfalfa and his brother Harold singing "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" and a group of cute but talentless girls singing "Honalulu Baby" are cute, but the real showstopper is Spanky. He changes his mind about wanting to flop; a pretty little girl with stage fright wants the prize desperately so she can buy her costume, and Spanky decides to win it for her. But the gang does not comply and inadvertantly helps him while hurting him!

"Reunion In Rhythm" is the final short on this tape and features some of the previous cast members with their replacements. Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, and Farina Hoskins return for the class reunion and are treated to some musical numbers by the new gang. Porky and Darla are two dolls in "Baby Face," Spanky leads the gang in the extravagant "Broadway Rhythm," and Alfalfa swears he'll never love another girl in "I'm Through With Love" just after being serenaded to "Goin' Hollywood." However, the real show stopper is Buckwheat, relegated to holding cue cards announcing each scene, but really wanting to be the actor. He takes matters into his own hands by reciting "Little Jack Horner" as many times as time allows, much to the chagrin of Spanky and the gang.

These tapes feature wonderful commentary from film historian Leonard Maltin. As always, the picture quality is clear and crisp thanks to the painstaking restoration of these gems.