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22 July 1939 (USA)
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It was all downhill from here
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Cast
 | Robert Blake | ... | Mickey (as Mickey Gubitosi) |
 | Tommy Bond | ... | Butch |
| Baldwin Cooke | ... | Luke |
 | Darla Hood | ... | Darla |
| Sidney Kibrick | ... | Woim |
| Leonard 'Percy' Landy | ... | Leonard |
 | Eugene 'Porky' Lee | ... | Porky |
 | George 'Spanky' McFarland | ... | Spanky |
| James H. McNamara | ... | The Mayor (as Major James H. McNamara) |
 | Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer | ... | Alfalfa |
 | Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas | ... | Buckwheat |
| Joe Whitehead | ... | The dogcatcher |
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| Edward L. Cahn | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Hal Law | writer | |
| Robert A. McGowan | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Jack Chertok | .... | producer | |
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| Harold J. Marzorati | |||
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| Roy Brickner | |||
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1939) (USA) (theatrical)
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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There were 32 takes made of the shot where the gang hangs on the back of the dogcatcher's truck as it rides down the street, because Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, well-known for causing mischief on the Our Gang set (especially after the series moved over to MGM in 1938), would ruin every take. On take number 32, Darla Hood passed out from the exhaust fumes and was rushed to a hospital, so the take that made the final release print is an edited version of one of the takes that Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer spoiled.See more »
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Referenced in The Little Rascals (1994)See more »
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One of MGM's most foolish decisions regarding OUR GANG - in a year when those seemed to be increasing exponentially - was to dismiss Porky Lee after this short. He had certainly outgrown his original persona as the tiniest of the Rascals, but so what? Previously, the little kids in the gang became the big kids in the gang. If anyone should have been discharged at that point, it's the prepubescent Spanky and Alfalfa, who were no longer very convincing as naive innocents.
The five-year-old Lee wasn't as outstanding a talent as those two, but he had a reserved charm of his own that was missed in subsequent films where even the best of them started overacting like hand puppets. Even worse, his exit ended one of the series' finest virtues - his rapport with Buckwheat. And by the time AUTO ANTICS was made, OUR GANG needed all the virtue it could get.
Anyway, the film itself isn't bad. It has a few inspired ideas. It isn't up there with MEN IN FRIGHT and MIGHTY LAK A GOAT, but it's closer to those than it is to DOG DAZE and WEDDING WORRIES.