Bring Home the Turkey

Charley Young is the guy in charge of the ironically named "Happyland" orphanage, where he has a bullwhip he uses on Our Gang; the rest of the staff has long knives. Naturally the kids are terrified, so they send a note to Tom Wilson to rescue them.

The modern viewer will have a lot of trouble with this entry in the long-running series. It's not just the violence offered the children -- which is part and parcel of the story -- but Tom Wilson is clearly in blackface. This is, I believe, because he joins in the physical fight against Young and his bravadoes. Having a real black man offering violence to any White individual in this era would have been politically incorrect in the era.

It's a good one nonetheless. Wilson lives in a shack that he has rigged up with all sorts of home-made work-saving devices, including a mangle to make pancakes, as well as my favorite comedy prop, a Murphy bed.