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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

Irving Pichel | Hobart Bosworth | Rex Downing | George McFarland | Bud Geary | Willie Best | Robert Middlemass | Louise Beavers | Henry Hall | Ralph Morgan | Phillips Holmes | Slim Whitaker | Rosina Lawrence | Hooper Atchley | Karl Hackett | Frank LaRue | Harry Strang | Harry Bernard | Ham Kinsey | Jeffrey Sayre | Carl Switzer | James P. Burtis | Jack Dougherty | Robert Winkler | Richard DeNeut | Jack Hill | Jack Cooper | Jerry Tucker | Ernie Alexander | John 'Uh huh' Collum | Buddy Roosevelt | Eugene 'Porky' Lee | Billie Thomas | Harold Switzer | Richard Neill | Carl Voss | Alex Finlayson | Walter Gregory | Portia Lanning | Flaette Roberts