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The Hey Fellas gang builds a firehouse out of junkyard parts.
COMEDY; featuring kids' gang and a home-made railway. After a fat boy is served with soup doctored with plaster of Paris by two black youngsters, his teeth have to be prised apart. The fat boy is driver of a makeshift locomotive running on lines made from a stolen fence, whose owner, a black woman, complains to the police. Members of the kids' gang attempt to derail the locomtive, and a fight ensues. The intervention of the police brings a temporary respite, but the locomotive and its occupants escape by driving through a fence.
Produced as a "Hey Fellas!" comedy, basically a copy of the popular Our Gang comedies. Star Cliff Daniels was the brother of Our Gang regular Mickey Daniels. Here playing doctors and nurses.
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has long vanished from the landscape being continued in Amish communities and such. We get kid-centric amusement as various skills of music are performed by youngsters who were probably coaxed by parents to take up the instruments used.
A rare entry from the short-lived Our Gang rip-off "Hey Fellas!" Featuring Cliff Daniels, Gene Buckel, Billy Naylor, Jeff Jenkins, Jingo Jones, Jimmy Thompson, Dick Gilbert, and Nancy McKee.
Set in the oil-soaked country of “Chilitina”—shot on location in San Diego’s Balboa Park—Oils Well! follows the travails of Monty, an everyman office clerk, who thinks only of his boss’s daughter. When Herbert Hester, an oilman “so crooked he cheats when counting his pulse,” schemes to cover up the company’s new gusher so he can claim it himself and get the girl, Monty swings into action. He eludes the hapless Chilitinan army, sidesteps the General’s amorous wife, thwarts Herbert, and saves the day.
Produced as a "Hey Fellas!" comedy, basically a copy of the popular Our Gang comedies. This one causing mayhem in the kitchen.
George Bunny's career as a screen comedian was an attempt to cash in on his brother, John's reputation, but George is no comedian. Here he plays a young man -- he is supposed to have been in his mid-fifties when this movie was made, but if so, he could have passed for 30 -- who heads over to a sanitarium filled with the usual crazy types, falls in love and runs off with the leading lady, all without doing anything that might be called in the least funny.
