Matthew Beard Movies

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing mus...

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in orde...

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.

Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls...

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brother of their teacher Miss Crabtree comes to visit, t...

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's boo...

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated...

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, t...

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.