Series: Our Gang

Director: Gus Meins
Producer: Hal Roach
Photography: Francis Corby
Editor: Bert Jordan
Sound: Harry Baker

Stars: George McFarland, Scotty Beckett, Wally Albright, Matthew Beard, Tommy Bond, Willie Mae Walton, Philbrook Lyons
Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released: 02 June 1934
Length: 2 reels
Production No.: G-22
Filming dates: April 2-7, 1934
Rating: -/10


Honky-Donkey

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Wally is a brat kid who, after waving goodbye to his mother, instructs (Don) Barclay, his personal chauffeur to take him on a ride through some alleys. They stop at a back yard where a group of boys are entertaining themselves with a donkey (!) Stymie puts Buckwheat on a chair, which is then pushed around in a circle by the animal. Wally wants to join in the fun....

Trivia
Copyrighted May 25, 1934.
Film #129 in the series.
Some sources list Bess Flowers as the maid. This is incorrect.
The donkey's name is Algebra. It is voiced by Mickey Daniels.
The guy on the bicycle who crashes into the post box was previously thought to be Pete Gordon. He is in fact Russell Custer.
The scene where the cop stops the car in the street and asks Don Barclay about the mule takes place outside a shop that has the sign "Honolulu Steamship Co." in its windows. This is a reference to Laurel & Hardy's Sons Of The Desert (1933).

George McFarland
Spanky
Scotty Beckett
Scotty Beckett
Wally Albright
Wally
Matthew Beard
Stymie
Tommy Bond
Tommy
Willie Mae Walton
Buckwheat
Philbrook Lyons
Kid
Don Barclay
Barclay, the chauffeur
Julia Griffith
Household servant
Peggy Leon
Wally's mother
Charles McAvoy
Officer
William Wagner
Realtor
Ed Brandenburg
Julius, the butler
Russell Custer
Pedestrian/Bicycle messenger
Bill Dill
Pedestrian
William J. O'Brien
Pedestrian
Sue Gomes
Maid
Evelyn Burns
Pedestrian
Loretta Russell
Pedestrian
Pauline High
Pedestrian
Betty Danko
Stunts

CREDITS (click image to enlarge)

Acknowledgements:
The Little Rascals: The Life And Times Of Our Gang by Leonard Maltin & Richard W. Bann (book)
http://theluckycorner.com/rmt/129.html" (Robert Demoss/The Lucky Corner)
Jesse Brisson (identification of Russell Custer, Evelyn Burns, Loretta Russell, Pauline High, Betty Danko, Bill Dill)

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