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Topics Our Gang , Silent film , Sunday calm , Sunday Calm is a short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. McGowan and Fred C. Newmeyer The kids save a widowed woman's store from being taken away from her. McGowan The kids make their own movie. McGowan Farina finds himself getting into trouble whenever he leaves his backyard.
Only a heavily edited television print, and a short home movie fragment are known to exist. McGowan The other kids try to help Farina's poverty-stricken family. Harvard" September 24, Robert F. McGowan The kids plays a game of football against a rival gang. No copies are known to exist. McGowan and Anthony Mack The kids build their own submarine. McGowan In order to gain an inheritance, a child-hating spinster agrees to take the Gang on a trip. Using the film's cutting continuity information, a restoration of the film was created with English intertitles, but has not been released to the public 76 76 "Crazy House" June 2, Robert F.
McGowan Rich girl Jean invites the Gang to her house. There, the kids fall victim to a series of practical jokes. McGowan Wheezer and Mary Ann decide to throw a party. McGowan Joe tries to deal with a toothache. Foreign Language Prints As a way to continue international film distribution during the 'sound era' of films, producer Hal Roach re-shot many of his releases in foreign languages Spanish, French, German, Italian , with the actors reciting their dialogue from cue cards held off camera.
McGowan The picture negative from the Spanish version of the film has survived, but the soundtrack has not. Reportedly, French and German versions were also produced. The print is fairly poor quality, but the title cards are all intact and the piano music in this is quite nice. The only redeeming thing I can say about the Mischief Maker versions of these shorts is I quite like the perky music they have attached to them.
Shivering Shakespeare is probably my least favorite pre-MGM talkie and Stage Fright is only slightly better although my opinion could change if I ever saw a version of this with the titles intact. The kids put on a performance of a play set in ancient Rome complete with togas, Joe as Nero, and Farina as some sort of African bushman!
The gang have made their own real car and are seen having a great old time driving the rickety vehicle every which way down Motor Avenue in Palms the big "white house", brick building, and "dirt alley with old garage" - see location info below - can all be seen in this film. Later the kids help "cure" a rich old man of his sicknesses and gout by giving him a ride in their car through the old L.
The old guy actually takes over the wheel, pulls the top off the car literally the entire top of the whole car! My memory of "Pacific Ocean Park" aka POP - we used to ride bicycles along a beachfront path in Venice in the early 70's and POP was still there but, sadly, all boarded up and in ruins with the tops of all the old rides and booths sticking up above the fencing that surrounded the area.
Neat to see though and kinda spooky. Tire Trouble is a great short and loads of fun - full of lots of street scenes of old L. The gang decides they would like to see the sites of New York too - such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the "Panama Canal" and Farina would like to catch himself one of those "Broadway chickens" likes his daddy talks about.
Next thing you know while searching for their dog they accidently start a barn fire, hide on a freight train where the door accidently shuts on them, and off they go - what do you think happens?! They end up in New York City. They take a city tour - mainly in a double-decker bus being driven by Mickey.
The gang is soon caught up with and sent back home via overnight train where trouble ensues when a man Gus Leonard, best known as "Old Cap" in the talkie: Mush and Milk who is in the "wholesale bug business" suitcase of cargo get's loose - and beetles, grasshoppers, and other assorted "yucky" insects are loose on the train. Most of the humor in this short is actually from H. Interesting, Joe has quite a mop of hair in this short - almost more of a mop than Jackie! Mary's hair is longer than usual too - was the Hal Roach Studio barber on vacation or did they use fake kids as the gang in New York and use wigs to match them?
My copy from The Picture Palace: picpal. On their way to school, Mickey, Jackie, and Joe stop off at Farina introduced as "she" in this short and Gene's house and find out they are sick in bed with "speckled fever" and don't have to go to school for six weeks. The three boys decide to paint their faces with spots and pretend to be sick, then sneak off to the circus.
The moms are frantic when they see their kids, and apparently it takes a "clever" Doctor - Doctor Pipp - to see immediately that the spots on the boys faces are made from paint. Mary she believes in long engagements - she'll marry Mickey in arrives to tell the boys that the whole class was given a half holiday and free tickets to the circus - - but Doctor and moms have decided to teach the "little rascals" a lesson and give them all a dose of castor oil.
Pretty good short. Includes a bit of a politically incorrect scene when Farina is pulling stuff out of the pockets of the black doctor treating them which includes such items as a deck of cards, dice which Farina starts rolling immediately and a lucky rabbit's foot.
Farina and Gene's spots are painted white and look a bit ridiculous! The later Talkie short, Three Smarts Boys, has a similar theme with the boys painting spots on their faces to get out of school. The main location shot in this short is the street where Farina and Gene live their doctor is seen driving down the street , which is Motor Ave.
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