Mail and Female is a 1937 Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

short comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Fred C. Newmeyer

Fred C. Newmeyer

Fred C. Newmeyer was an American actor and film director. A native of Central City, Colorado, he is best known for directing a handful of films in the Our Gang series and for directing Harold Lloyd movies The Freshman and Girl Shy. Newmeyer also had an extensive directing and acting resume in...

. It was the 160th Our Gang short (161st episode, 71st talking short, and 72nd talking episode) that was released.

Plot

The Gang's male members, headed by Spanky, decide to create the He-Man Woman Hater's Club. When the kids ask who will be elected president, Spanky nominates his pal Alfalfa in absentia—because everyone knows that Alfalfa "hates women." Alas, at this very moment Alfalfa is writing a love letter to his sweetheart Darla. Just as he sends Buckwheat and Porky to deliver the note, Alfalfa is informed that he has been unanimously elected president of Spanky's new club. Without even asking what the club is all about, Alfalfa declares that all rules must be obeyed, lest the members suffer a paddling at the hands of "sergeant-at-arms" Spike. When Alfalfa discovers what the club is, he rushes over to Darla's house to retrieve the note. Suspicious, The Gang tails him. When they arrive, Alfalfa is forced to pose as Darla's "Cousin Amelia", leading to more complications when they seem to like "her".

Cast

• George McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
   as Spanky
• Carl Switzer
  Carl Switzer
  Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...
  
   as Alfalfa / Cousin Amelia
• Billie Thomas as Buckwheat
• Eugene Lee as Porky
• Darla Hood
  Darla Hood
  Darla Jean Hood was an American child actress, best known as the leading lady in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1941. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner...
  
   as Darla
• Henry Wesley Lee as Spike
• Hugh Chapman as Club member
• John Collum
  John Collum
  John K. Collum was an American child actor of the 1930s.-Career:Born in Illinois, Collum was the son of Hal Roach's casting director, Joseph Collum, and appeared in twenty-six of Roach's Our Gang comedies from 1932 to 1938...
  
   as Club member
• Joe Geil as Club member
• Darwood Kaye as Club member
• Tommy McFarland as Club member
• Harold Switzer
  Harold Switzer
  Harold Frederick Switzer was an American child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as an extra...
  
   as Club member
• Fred Walburn as Club member
• Robert Winkler as Club member