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General Spanky (1936)
Directed by Gordon Douglas, Fred C. Newmeyer
Overview
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
Length 71 minutes
Actors
George McFarland | Phillips Holmes | Ralph Morgan | Irving Pichel | Rosina Lawrence | Billie Thomas | Carl Switzer | Hobart Bosworth | Robert Middlemass | James P. Burtis | Louise Beavers | Willie Best | Ernie Alexander | Hooper Atchley | Harry Bernard | John 'Uh huh' Collum | Jack Cooper | Richard DeNeut | Jack Dougherty | Rex Downing | Alex Finlayson | Bud Geary | Walter Gregory | Karl Hackett | Henry Hall | Jack Hill | Ham Kinsey | Portia Lanning | Frank LaRue | Eugene 'Porky' Lee | Richard Neill | Flaette Roberts | Buddy Roosevelt | Jeffrey Sayre | Harry Strang | Harold Switzer | Jerry Tucker | Carl Voss | Slim Whitaker | Robert Winkler