Mike Fright is a 1934 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

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

 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 Gus Meins

Gus Meins

Gus Meins was a German-American film director. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany.-Career:...

. It was the (42nd talking episode) 130th Our Gang short that was released.

Plot

When open auditions are announced for a radio variety program, the local station is besieged by aggressively over-coached "professional kids." Also auditioning is an impressive-sounding musical aggregation called the International Silver String Submarine Band—which turns out to be none other than the gang, equipped (or rather, armed) with home-made instruments.

After suffering through an endless parade of cloyingly cute kiddie troupers (and inadvertently blowing tubes and bulbs in the control room in the process, and driving the radio engineer

Engineer

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 crazy), the gang step up to the microphone and steal the show with a truly unforgettable rendition of "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze", originally published under the title "The Flying Trapeze" and also known as "The Man on the Flying Trapeze", is a 19th century popular song about a flying trapeze circus performer, Jules Léotard...

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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...
  
   - Spanky
• Matthew Beard - Stymie
• Scotty Beckett
  Scotty Beckett
  Scott Hastings "Scotty" Beckett was an American child actor. He starred in the Our Gang and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger series.-Early career:...
  
   - Scotty
• Tommy Bond
  Tommy Bond
  Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen.-Early years...
  
   - Tommy
• Alvin Buckelew - Alvin
• Leonard Kibrick
  Leonard Kibrick
  Leonard Kibrick , was an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1934 to 1936, usually portraying the villain...
  
   - Leonard
• Billy Lee
  Billy Lee
  Billy Lee was a child actor who appeared in many films from the mid 1930s through the early 1940s.-Biography:...
  
   - Billy, Tap Dancer
• Isabel La Mal - Receptionist
• James C. Morton
  James C. Morton
  James C. Morton was an American character actor. He appeared in 187 films between 1922 and 1943.-Career:...
  
   - Station Manager
• Marvin Hatley
  Marvin Hatley
  Thomas Marvin Hatley , professionally known simply as Marvin Hatley, was an American film composer and musical director, best known for his work for the Hal Roach studio from 1929 until 1940....
  
   - Piano Player
• Charlie Hall - Elevator Operator
• William Irving
  William Irving (actor)
  William Irving was a German-born American film actor. He appeared in 174 films between 1916 and 1941. Irving died of a heart attack on Christmas Day, 1943.-Selected filmography:* Whose Baby?...
  
   - Announcer
• Bert Gordon
  Bert Gordon
  Bert Gordon was an American comedian and voice actor. His birth name was Barney Gorodetsky. He appeared in many roles over his lengthy career and was known by the moniker "the Mad Russian"....
  
  - Sound Man