Series: Our Gang Director: Robert F. McGowan Producer: Hal Roach Dialogue: H.M. Walker Photography: Art Lloyd Editor: Richard C. Currier Sound: Elmer Raguse Stars: Bobby Hutchins, Allen Hoskins, Norman Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Mary Ann Jackson, Dorothy DeBorba Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Released: 30 August 1930 Length: 2 reels Production No.: G-34 Filming dates: April 21 - May 9, 1930 Rating: 5/10

Pups Is Pups

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The kids are playing in the yard when Dorothy does a running jump into a puddle, ass first. Chubby sits by and chalk marks it on the wall before Jackie goes and pulls her out. Farina is playing his one-man band act as two young black kids dance to his tune. He sees an article in the newspaper asking for some boys to act as pages. A cleaned-up Dorothy comes back out and jumps straight back into her puddle as Wheezer rings a bell for his five puppies to come and get some milk. The boys (and Mary Ann) discuss the advert and when Farina boasts the job pays $200 they state what they would each do if they had that money. Wheezer runs around ringing a bell which gets the dogs excited because they think it's dinner time! Wheezer then plays a rather amusing game of hide n' seek with the puppies in the yard. After a couple of games Wheezer invites the dogs to find him instead. Wheezer hides in a barn and covers himself in hay. The dogs find him and rip off his trousers which Wheezer desperately tries to retrieve. Meanwhile Mary Ann messes about with a parrot and Chubby gives a soapy bath to a pig. When Wheezer questions Mary Ann as to why so much fuss is being made over the animals she tells him they are heading off to a pet show downtown. The two black boys summon the dogs with Wheezer's bell to try and lock them in the barn but the animals escape. So they lure the dogs down the street instead before dumping the bell into a drain and getting the dogs to follow it. Wheezer finally realizes his bell has been lost through a hole in his pocket and so calls for the dogs instead.

An ambulance drives past with its bells ringing which draws the dogs towards its sound as Wheezer continues to search for them whilst making noises with his mouth to represent the bell. A monkey on a street rings his bell, followed by an ice cream wagon's bells, all of which confuse the dogs. The five puppies run backwards and forwards across a recently cemented sidewalk leaving their paw prints in it. The guy doing the cementing isn't amused! The dogs carry on running away until they are stopped by the sound of railroad crossing bells. The dogs run across the railroad tracks and back again as the noise of bells just never ends (even a goat gets in on the action!) Wheezer finds two conveniently placed stones and hurls one up at a window to try and activate an alarm but smashes the window instead. The rest of the kids arrive at the pet show with their respective animals. A doctor tells a patient to keep his head up so when he walks out of the surgery all the pedestrians in the street start looking up at the sky to see what the man is supposedly looking at? This is enough of a distraction for the kids to get past the doorman and into the building where they find Farina in uniform and working at the event. The kids promptly set about removing the animals already on display and replace them with their own but are discovered by three judges who then call the police. Pandemonium erupts as the kids scramble to escape. Women begin screaming and the animals run loose. The kids escape whilst Wheezer is held up in a church looking for his dogs. When the churchbells suddenly ring, the dogs come running and are reunited with their owner, much to Wheezer's relief and joy. Everybody returns to the yard where Dorothy takes another leap into her puddle. Her mother comes out and thinks Farina is responsible for pushing Dorothy in but as she begins to tell him off, Dorothy's mother falls into the puddle herself.

Favourite bit Oh it just has to be Dorothy jumping into the puddle. Zero f*cks given!

Trivia • Copyrighted July 2, 1930. • Film #100 in the series. • Added to the National Film Registry on December 28, 2004. • Am I the only one who had trouble hearing and understanding half of what the kids are saying when they are in the yard in the first half of the film? The audio is awful. • Some sources list Harry Bernard as a policeman. This is wrong. My opinion • An enjoyable beginning; a slow middle and a chaotic final third. Definitely one of the NOISIEST films in the series. If you suffer from kampanaphobia then you really need to give this one a miss!

	Bobby Hutchins Wheezer
	Allen Hoskins Farina
	Jackie Cooper Jackie
	Norman Chaney Chubby
	Dorothy DeBorba Dorothy
	Mary Ann Jackson Mary Ann
	Buddy McDonald Kid with goat
	Alan Dong Kid with fishbowl
	The Hill Twins Boys
	Lyle Tayo Dorothy's mother
	Charles McAvoy Cement man
	Chris Lynton Dr. H.R. White
	Jack Hill Pedestrian
	William Gillespie Musician playing bass tuba
	Charlie Hall Orchestra leader playing violin
	Helen Gilmore Woman with hat
	Bill Knight Policeman
	Silas D. Wilcox Doorman
	Clara Guiol Screaming woman
	Russell Custer Man tripped at dog show
	Harry Arras Patient who has to keep his head up
	Chet Brandenburg Pedestrian
	Walter Weidler Second twin
	Warner Weidler First twin
	George Savidan Boy in pet show sequence
	Willie Savidan Boy in pet show sequence
	Sam Lufkin [*seen in still but not in film (?)]

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SHOT ON THE BACKLOT (click any image to enlarge)

SHOT ON THE ROACH RANCH (click any image to enlarge)

SHOT ON LOCATION (click any image to enlarge)

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Acknowledgements: The Little Rascals: The Life And Times Of Our Gang by Leonard Maltin & Richard W. Bann (book) http://www.theluckycorner.com/rmt/100.html (Robert Demoss/The Lucky Corner) Jesse Brisson (identification of Bill Knight, Russell Custer) John Benson (additional material) This page was last updated on: 30 August 2024