The Pooch is a 1932 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 Robert F. McGowan

Robert F. McGowan

Robert Francis McGowan was an American film director and producer, best known as the senior director of the Our Gang short subjects film series from 1922 until 1933.-Career:...

. It was the 115th (27th talking) Our Gang short that was released.

Plot

Cheerful vagrant Stymie tries to get back in the good graces of the gang after stealing their pies. When a mean dogcatcher (Budd Fine) tries to round up Pete the Pup, Stymie comes to the rescue, earning the undying devotion of the kids and the animosity of the dogcatcher, who vengefully bundles Petey off to the pound, intending to consign the poor pooch to the gas chamber. Desperately, Stymie prays for the five dollars necessary to spring Pete, whereupon a five-spot blows out of the hands of a lady shopper and lands at Stymie's feet. After out smarting a cop, with the help of Spanky, that was in pursuit to take it back he and the gang race to the dog pound. Upon arriving the dog catcher says that he already gassed petey and was dead. Stymie and the gang sulk as another employee of the pound tells them Petey isn't dead. It turns out there wasn't any gas in the cyllinders and Petey was just sitting in alive in the chamber when opened. It ends with Petey chasing the dog catcher for revenge with the gang following.

Cast

• Matthew Beard - Stymie
• 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
• Dorothy DeBorba
  Dorothy DeBorba
  Dorothy Adelle DeBorba was an American former child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang series of short subjects as the leading lady from 1930 to 1933.-Early life:...
  
   - Dorothy

• Kendall McComas - Breezy Brisbane
• Bobby Hutchins - Wheezer
• Sherwood Bailey
  Sherwood Bailey
  Sherwood Bailey was an American former child actor. His parents were non-professionals. He is most notable for appearing as the red-headed, freckle-faced bad boy and enemy of the gang, Spud in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1931 to 1932.Bailey's most notable appearance was that of the...
  
   - Spud
• Harold Wertz
  Harold Wertz
  Harold Wertz was an American actor who played "Bouncy" in three Our Gang films in 1932. He was in the Our Gang films Choo-Choo!, The Pooch and Hook and Ladder. He died on November 21, 1999 of complications of a stroke....
  
   - Bouncy
• Artye Folz - Girl who Reads
• Dickie Jackson - Boy with donut
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
   - Himself
• Harry Bernard
  Harry Bernard
  Harry Bernard was a movie comedian who worked for Mack Sennett and with Laurel & Hardy, usually typecast as a policeman.Bernard was born in San Francisco, California, and died in Hollywood.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - Officer
• Baldwin Cooke
  Baldwin Cooke
  Baldwin Cooke, also known as Baldy Cooke , was a comedic American actor. Born in New York, Cooke and his wife, Alice, toured in vaudeville with Stan Laurel, remaining close friends over the years. He appeared in some thirty Laurel and Hardy comedies...
  
   - Diner attendant
• Estelle Etterre - First housewife
• Budd Fine - Dog catcher
• Dick Gilbert
  Dick Gilbert
  Dick Gilbert , was an American actor mainly associated with the Hal Roach Studios,where he appeared in numerous Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy comedies...
  
   - Co-worker at dog pound
• Belle Hare - First housewife
• May Wallace - Second housewife

Note

• The Pooch is a semi-remake of the 1927 film Love My Dog
  Love My Dog
  Love My Dog is a 1927 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 59th Our Gang short subject released. It was remade in 1932 as The Pooch.-Plot:...
  
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• This is the last entry featuring the original Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  . His trainer was fired from Hal Roach studios. Other unrelated dogs aired as Pete the Pup until 1938.
• This episode was edited for perceived racial content toward African Americans and the mistreatment of children by about five minutes from the syndicated Little Rascals television in 1971. The film was reinstated in its entirety on its AMC airings from 2001-2003.