Director Cyril Enfield, after a poor start in "Radio Bugs", and mediocre effort in "Dancing Romeo" now shows himself as a director of Our Gang shorts.Looking for something to watch? Men in Fright is a 1938 Our Gang short comedy film directed by George Sidney. 1992). The boys are admitted into the hospital for indigestion, just as Darla is released to go home. The men had been caught bribing homeless people with $1 or a cigarette in exchange for their signatures, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office announced Wednesday. Their plans go quickly awry and the gang finds themselves patients in the same hospital. Popeye's Pappy takes a flagpole sitting job atop a tall building without telling Popeye. Barney gets involved in Good Neighbor Week by helping out the local beaver, help the beaver could do without. Darla is in the hospital recovering from a tonsillectomy and therefore won't be able to eat the food the gang brought to her room. In this short, the Gang shows they have fully recovered from the loss of Spanky. Rich 'Old Man' Bill Morton is a hypochondriac. The rest are greedy animals with no manners. Their plans go quickly awry and the gang finds themselves patients in the same hospital. Pappy wants to smack the tot, but Popeye persuades him to try psychology instead. But Darla's friends show up with living presents, eat his dinner, argue about Tarzan and Alfalfa croons a special song for the unhappy man. • Darla is in room 1004. Animation Produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 172nd Our Gang short to be released. First, though, he needs to get the anchor set, despite an overly helpful little seal. The "Our Gang" kids are working on their vehicle for the Kidmobile Race Classic taking place this afternoon at 2:45. • When the nurse comes into the room with the tray of ice creams, the only one to say thank you is Darla. The nurse also offers the six boys dishes of ice cream as well, and when she leaves, they tear into their picnic basket as well, combining ice cream with hamburgers, pickles, hot dogs, and watermelons in such a way that they all end up with horrible stomachaches (depicted through an animated segment of a hot dog fighting with a scoop of ice cream). Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy are trying to play poker, but Swee'Pea's crying keeps interrupting them. • Is there really any point in Leonard Landy actually being in the film? Trivia • This was film #173 in the series; the fourth entry for MGM. It's Mr. He dances terribly. Was this review helpful to you? Barney has a dive mask and swim fins to help with his pursuit of fish. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Just before finally diving into their picnic, a nurse arrives to deliver Darla's afternoon dish of ice cream (ice cream being the only food she can eat at the moment). The gang goes to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. He offers Alfalfa a dime to change clothes with him while he "goes for a little walk", leaving Alfalfa to fend for himself when an orderly comes to collect him for the tonsil operation. After bringing new sugar pills to Bill Morton's house, his physician, Doctor Malcolm Scott suggested to Bill Morton's wife that adopting a ... 1938-"Men in Fright" 1939-"Cousin Wilbur"-had it not been for the acting credits, I would have thought this Scotty Beckett playing Alfalfa's Cousin Wilbur and in the mid 30's playing Spanky's witty sidekick were two different people. Men in Fright; Football Romeo. Spanky, Porky, Buckwheat, and Leonard do their best to try to catch Alfalfa, who, thanks to the laughing gas, is now romping deliriously through the hospital and causing havoc and mischief. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average age-adjusted height for American men 20 years old and up is 69.1 inches (175.4 centimeters).That’s about 5 … Spanky had that figured out so it would be eaten by him and the rest of the gang. Length: One Reel Producer: Jack Chertok Director: George Sidney Photography: Editor: Titles: None Writer: Carl Dudley and Marty Schwartz Released: October 15, 1938 Studio:Hal Roach Studios While in the elevator, little Gary, who has stowed away aboard the gurney on which the orderly is transporting Alfalfa, opens a canister of laughing gas, sending himself, Alfalfa, the orderly, and even the elevator operator into various fits of mirth and odd behavior. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Newly inducted into the US Navy, Popeye proves hopeless as a conventional seaman until his training ship is attacked by the enemy. Droopy is on his way to woo his lovely senorita when he is waylayed by a wolf intent on winning the fair lass. See high school TV and movie icons then and now, from "Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Overview of Men in Fright, 1938, directed by George Sidney, with Barbara Bedford, Eugene Lee, Sonny Bupp, at Turner Classic Movies Hood's birthday and he's looking forward to a quiet celebration with his family. He more than compensates for his deliberate, underachieved acting in most of the other MGM shorts. This M-G-M comedy short, Men in Fright, is the one hundred seventy-third entry in the "Our Gang" series and the eighty-fifth talkie. 1941-"Come Back Miss Pipps" 1942-"Going to Press" 1943-"Election Daze"-the kid who taunts Froggy in his election speech is cute.
Use the HTML below. From 1938: In “Men in Fright,” the gang visits Darla in the hospital, and Alfalfa's mom turns him into a “Football Romeo” to woo Darla (Darla Hood). Maltin, Leonard & Bann, Richard W. (1977, rev. They are certain they will win with their invention, the supercharged ... The gang is putting on a show with Alfalfa billed as "King of the Crooners."