Joe Cobb

Joe Cobb

Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Cobb auditioned for producer Hal Roach's comedy series at the age of five. He appeared in 86 Our Gang episodes during seven years, and had three guest appearances in the serial in the 1930s. His first Our Gang short was The Big Show. Cobb appeared in the Our Gang series' last silent film, Saturday's Lesson, and its first talking short, Small Talk. He was a recognizable character, with chubby cheeks and a trademark beanie cap. Some sources indicate that his final film with the Gang was Bouncing Babies; however, he does not appear onscreen in that short. His last film as a regular cast member was the previous entry Lazy Days, but he would also return for cameos in three more shorts over the years: Fish Hooky, Pay as You Exit, and Reunion in Rhythm. After his acting career ended in the early 1940s, Cobb became an assembler for North American Aviation, a division of Rockwell International. He retired in 1981. Cobb died of natural causes on May 21, 2002.

  • Title : Joe Cobb
  • Popularity : 2.047
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1916-11-07
  • Place of Birth : Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : Joe Frank Cobb
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Joe Cobb Movies

  • 1933
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    Fish Hooky

    Fish Hooky

    7.7 1933 HD

    A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

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  • 1929
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    The Holy Terror

    The Holy Terror

    1 1929 HD

    Mary Ann is becoming a serious problem to the other gang members and Joe was given the job of training and controlling her behavior.

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  • 1929
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    Bouncing Babies

    Bouncing Babies

    6.1 1929 HD

    With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back.

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  • 1925
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    Your Own Back Yard

    Your Own Back Yard

    5.8 1925 HD

    Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. ...

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  • 1994
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    The Our Gang Story

    The Our Gang Story

    1 1994 HD

    Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200...

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  • 2001
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    Our Gang - Comedy Festival

    Our Gang - Comedy Festival

    1 2001 HD

    Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle...

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  • 1924
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    Young Oldfield

    Young Oldfield

    5 1924 HD

    Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer.

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  • 1924
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    Accidental Accidents

    Accidental Accidents

    5 1924 HD

    Jimmy Jump gets rather wet.

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  • 1923
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    The Big Show

    The Big Show

    5.8 1923 HD

    The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.

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  • 1923
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    A Pleasant Journey

    A Pleasant Journey

    5.9 1923 HD

    Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places with some runaways about to board a train.

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  • 1923
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    Boys to Board

    Boys to Board

    5 1923 HD

    A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house.

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  • 1923
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    Back Stage

    Back Stage

    6.5 1923 HD

    The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.

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  • 1923
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    Lodge Night

    Lodge Night

    5.8 1923 HD

    This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call...

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  • 1923
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    Stage Fright

    Stage Fright

    5.8 1923 HD

    Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into...

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  • 1923
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    Derby Day

    Derby Day

    5.6 1923 HD

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

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  • 1923
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    Sunday Calm

    Sunday Calm

    5.8 1923 HD

    The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically...

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  • 1924
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    Tire Trouble

    Tire Trouble

    5.8 1924 HD

    This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. In this one, Mickey drives his own...

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  • 1924
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    Seein' Things

    Seein' Things

    5.8 1924 HD

    At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him to stay away from the stuff but he loves it so...

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  • 1924
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    Commencement Day

    Commencement Day

    5.8 1924 HD

    Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has...

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  • 1924
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    Cradle Robbers

    Cradle Robbers

    5.8 1924 HD

    The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to...

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  • 1924
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    Fast Company

    Fast Company

    5.8 1924 HD

    Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but...

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  • 1924
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    The Mysterious Mystery!

    The Mysterious Mystery!

    5.8 1924 HD

    Mickey Daniels doing an impersonation of Sherlock Holmes and Joe Cobb being Watson as the two try to discover the whereabouts of a young rich kids...

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  • 1925
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    The Big Town

    The Big Town

    5.8 1925 HD

    The gang play inside a railroad box car which suddenly closes, trapping them inside. The next morning they find themselves in New York City. After...

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  • 1925
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    Circus Fever

    Circus Fever

    5.8 1925 HD

    The circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members were able to play hooky from school so as to attend the...

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  • 1925
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    The Love Bug

    The Love Bug

    5.8 1925 HD

    Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty salon, where Pineapple works and proceed to make...

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  • 1925
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    Official Officers

    Official Officers

    5.8 1925 HD

    The kids in the tenements have no place to play except in streets where traffic is a hazard. Mickey gets the idea of building barricades to give our...

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  • 1925
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    Mary, Queen of Tots

    Mary, Queen of Tots

    5.8 1925 HD

    A couple makes dolls modeled on neighborhood kids. A gardener at a mansion buys four of them for Mary, the girl of the house. He's her only friend:...

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  • 1925
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    Better Movies

    Better Movies

    5.8 1925 HD

    The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were problems as those not involved are trying to...

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  • 1925
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    One Wild Ride

    One Wild Ride

    5.8 1925 HD

    The gang has a taxi, consisting of an old Model T with no engine, pushed by a horse. When the owner takes his horse back, they must rely on motorists...

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  • 1926
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    Baby Clothes

    Baby Clothes

    5.8 1926 HD

    Mr. and Mrs. Weedle are desperate to find two babies, for their rich uncle has sent them money for years thinking they have children. Now that...

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  • 1926
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    Uncle Tom's Uncle

    Uncle Tom's Uncle

    5.8 1926 HD

    The Gang stages their own revisionist version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Mickey's barn. But Joe's mother thinks the back yard needs cleaning, and...

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  • 1926
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    Shivering Spooks

    Shivering Spooks

    5.8 1926 HD

    The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them to be quiet. They join Mary, Farina, and Scooter...

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  • 1926
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    War Feathers

    War Feathers

    5.8 1926 HD

    While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a never-ending game of cowboys and Indians. During...

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  • 1928
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    The Smile Wins

    The Smile Wins

    5.8 1928 HD

    Farina's mother is very ill and the mortgage is due. He tries to take over her laundry business, but the kids just wreck the clothes. Joe takes pity...

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  • 1927
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    Yale vs. Harvard

    Yale vs. Harvard

    1 1927 HD

    The Gang turn to playing football, and face tough competition against the Gas House Garlics.

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  • 1927
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    The Old Wallop

    The Old Wallop

    1 1927 HD

    Wheezer likes to hit people on the nose, and his folks encourage him to do so. Then the Gang wandering off climbing atop a construction site while...

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  • 1927
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    Heebee Jeebees

    Heebee Jeebees

    1 1927 HD

    A hypnotist comes to town and puts the gang in animal-like trances. Now that the spell is off, the gang returns back to their usual roles. But then...

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  • 1928
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    Edison, Marconi & Co.

    Edison, Marconi & Co.

    1 1928 HD

    With Jay Edison as the inventor and Wheezer his assistant, the gang contrived an automobile of unusual construction; an automobile that will look...

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  • 1928
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    Barnum & Ringling, Inc.

    Barnum & Ringling, Inc.

    6.9 1928 HD

    The kids decide to put on a circus at the local hotel. Seeing various pets and other domestic animals dressed up like circus animals was very...

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  • 1928
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    Fair and Muddy

    Fair and Muddy

    1 1928 HD

    Living in an orphanage, the gang has to deal with Amanda, a child-hating spinster. To receive a bequest from a rich uncle, she must acquire a child....

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  • 1928
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    Crazy House

    Crazy House

    6.5 1928 HD

    Crazy House is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 76th Our Gang short that was released. It was the...

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  • 1928
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    Growing Pains

    Growing Pains

    1 1928 HD

    Mary Ann has a liking toward Wheezer. Her mother tells her that if she gives him cod liver oil, he can become a giant. A circus giant comes to board,...

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  • 1938
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    A Yank at Oxford

    A Yank at Oxford

    6.7 1938 HD

    A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

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  • 1929
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    Boxing Gloves

    Boxing Gloves

    6 1929 HD

    The Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would actually mix it up. Harry and Farina notice a rivalry...

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  • 1929
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    Lazy Days

    Lazy Days

    4.8 1929 HD

    While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.

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  • 1929
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    Railroadin'

    Railroadin'

    5.7 1929 HD

    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...

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  • 1929
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    Small Talk

    Small Talk

    5.8 1929 HD

    The gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". Wheezer, the youngest child, gets adopted by a...

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  • 1927
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    Seeing the World

    Seeing the World

    6.1 1927 HD

    In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a...

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  • 1927
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    Baby Brother

    Baby Brother

    6.3 1927 HD

    Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our...

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  • 1927
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    The Glorious Fourth

    The Glorious Fourth

    5.7 1927 HD

    It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the...

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  • 1928
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    The Ol' Gray Hoss

    The Ol' Gray Hoss

    6 1928 HD

    This story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps him company and his old horse. He runs a horse and...

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  • 1928
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    The Spanking Age

    The Spanking Age

    6 1928 HD

    Mary Ann Jackson and Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins are the children of a widowed inventor who are forced to endure the cruelties of their stepmother and...

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  • 1929
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    Little Mother

    Little Mother

    6.5 1929 HD

    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...

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  • 1929
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    Election Day

    Election Day

    7 1929 HD

    This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw...

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  • 1929
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    Cat, Dog & Co.

    Cat, Dog & Co.

    6 1929 HD

    Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it...

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  • 1984
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    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    10 1984 HD

    Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

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  • 1923
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    Dogs of War!

    Dogs of War!

    5.5 1923 HD

    The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.

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  • 1927
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    Tired Business Men

    Tired Business Men

    5.5 1927 HD

    Tired Business Men is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 60th Our Gang short subject released.

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  • 1928
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    Rainy Days

    Rainy Days

    6.5 1928 HD

    Jay and Wheezer are left alone on a rainy afternoon when Mom goes out to run errands. But when their friends drop by and trash the place, the boys...

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  • 1927
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    Olympic Games

    Olympic Games

    5.5 1927 HD

    While the world watches the Olympic Games in Stockholm, the Rascals gather at the flats for their own games. Whether it's the shot put, the hurdles,...

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  • 1924
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    Jubilo, Jr.

    Jubilo, Jr.

    5.8 1924 HD

    A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift...

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  • 1925
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    Boys Will Be Joys

    Boys Will Be Joys

    5.8 1925 HD

    Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a large vacant lot. Mickey's got big plans for...

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  • 1926
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    Monkey Business

    Monkey Business

    5.8 1926 HD

    An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his battling parents. The two become friends and...

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  • 1927
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    Love My Dog

    Love My Dog

    4.167 1927 HD

    Farina Hoskins discovers a stray dog. Joe Cobb suggests that he and Farina take the dog to the gang's dog show. In the middle of the show, the...

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  • 1929
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    Saturday's Lesson

    Saturday's Lesson

    7 1929 HD

    A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.

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  • 1926
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    Thundering Fleas

    Thundering Fleas

    5.6 1926 HD

    The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

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  • 1926
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    45 Minutes from Hollywood

    45 Minutes from Hollywood

    5 1926 HD

    A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.

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  • 1925
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    Our Gang At Home

    Our Gang At Home

    1 1925 HD

    Using several camera tricks, the movie shows what the Our Gang kids want to be when they grow up.

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  • 1924
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    The 'Fraidy Cat

    The 'Fraidy Cat

    6.8 1924 HD

    Jimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their...

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  • 2021
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    The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1

    The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1

    1 2021 HD

    The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1 contains the first 11 Our Gang sound shorts produced by Roach at the dawn of the...

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  • 2023
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    The Little Rascals - CENTENNIAL BONUS DISC

    The Little Rascals - CENTENNIAL BONUS DISC

    1 2023 HD

    The BONUS DISC included in the Centennial Collection.

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  • 1926
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    Telling Whoppers

    Telling Whoppers

    5.8 1926 HD

    Farina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear he's been murdered and think they'll get the blame.

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  • 1927
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    Chicken Feed

    Chicken Feed

    5.5 1927 HD

    Chicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 66th Our Gang short subject released. The kids go...

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  • 1927
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    Ten Years Old

    Ten Years Old

    5.2 1927 HD

    Ten Years Old is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 58th Our Gang short subject released. It was...

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  • 1928
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    Playin' Hookey

    Playin' Hookey

    5.5 1928 HD

    Wheezer gets excited watching his dog Pansy attack and rip apart the chickens and furniture in the back yard. His mother is upset, and his father...

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  • 1929
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    Noisy Noises

    Noisy Noises

    6.5 1929 HD

    Joe Cobb is suffering through a toothache as well as having to babysit his little brother Rupert who won't stop crying. Every effort to calm Rupert...

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  • 1929
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    Fast Freight

    Fast Freight

    1 1929 HD

    Fast Freight is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film. It was the 85th Our Gang short that was released. The gang takes a tramp's train ride and...

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  • 1925
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    Dog Days

    Dog Days

    5.6 1925 HD

    The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart. When the pony shies and runs...

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  • 1928
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    School Begins

    School Begins

    1 1928 HD

    One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins was a series of gags built around the...

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  • 1923
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    July Days

    July Days

    6.1 1923 HD

    The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mickey and Jack are trying to win the affections of...

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  • 1924
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    Big Business

    Big Business

    5.8 1924 HD

    In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close...

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  • 1926
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    The Fourth Alarm

    The Fourth Alarm

    5.8 1926 HD

    The rascals once again, now as a plumbers.

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  • 1924
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    The Sun Down Limited

    The Sun Down Limited

    5.8 1924 HD

    The gang creates their own railroad after being chased from a local railyard, and competes with Toughie.

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  • 1928
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    Spook Spoofing

    Spook Spoofing

    7.2 1928 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    Pay As You Exit

    Pay As You Exit

    7.3 1936 HD

    The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leading lady Darla walks out on star Alfalfa.

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  • 1925
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    Shootin' Injuns

    Shootin' Injuns

    6 1925 HD

    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 -...

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  • 1927
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    Bring Home the Turkey

    Bring Home the Turkey

    5 1927 HD

    Habitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find a loyal and kindhearted friend in the form of a black...

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  • 1941
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    Where Did You Get That Girl?

    Where Did You Get That Girl?

    5 1941 HD

    In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording...

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  • 1924
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    It's a Bear

    It's a Bear

    5.9 1924 HD

    The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a...

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  • 1924
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    Girl Shy

    Girl Shy

    6.885 1924 HD

    Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young...

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  • 1926
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    Good Cheer

    Good Cheer

    6.1 1926 HD

    On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Santa Claus really exists for those who wish...

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  • 1926
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    Buried Treasure

    Buried Treasure

    5.8 1926 HD

    The Rascals take their homemade boat on a search for treasure and crash a movie set.

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  • 1937
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    Reunion in Rhythm

    Reunion in Rhythm

    6 1937 HD

    The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.

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  • 1924
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    The Buccaneers

    The Buccaneers

    6.2 1924 HD

    This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat...

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  • 1923
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    A Tough Winter

    A Tough Winter

    1 1923 HD

    An ice-cold Snub adopts a gamin and her brother; A mean landlord seeking rent complicates matters and the trio take a train to Florida. But by...

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  • 1929
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    Wiggle Your Ears

    Wiggle Your Ears

    6.5 1929 HD

    This is a really strange, but thought provoking film. Here, beloved Mary literally lets Harry Spear kick her behind, spend her money on him, and...

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  • 1927
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    Dog Heaven

    Dog Heaven

    6.1 1927 HD

    Poor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with him and going fishing for the love of a girl. A dog...

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