The Kid from Borneo

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The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."

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- Robert F. McGowan
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7.8/10

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- Robert F. McGowan
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Matthew 'Stymie' Beard

Stymie
(as Our Gang)

Tommy Bond

Tommy
(as Our Gang)

Dorothy DeBorba

Dorothy
(as Our Gang)

Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Wheezer
(as Our Gang)

George 'Spanky' McFarland

Spanky
(as Our Gang)

Dickie Moore

Dickie
(as Our Gang)

Pete the Dog

Pete the Pup
(as Our Gang)

Henry Hanna

Our Gang Member
(as Our Gang)

Dickie Jackson

Our Gang Member
(as Our Gang)

Harry Bernard

Sideshow Manager

Otto Fries

The Kids' Dad

Dick Gilbert

Worker

John Lester Johnson

Bumbo - 'The Wild Man From Borneo'

May Wallace

The Kids' Mother

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Trivia
When Spanky is escaping from the scary man he thinks is 'Uncle George', he runs across an empty field where, in the distance, there is a hill with the number "57" visible on its face. This was an enormous advertisement, made of cement, for the Heinz 57 brand of pickles and other products. The colossal advertisement can be seen in historic photographs as early as 1916 (Huntington Library, San Marino, California, collection) and is also visible in other Hal Roach productions, such as Laurel & Hardy's Dirty Work (1933).

Goofs
When Spanky feeds Bumbo just about everything in the icebox, one of the items he pulls out is a portion of a roll of bologna, cut in the middle so that the last two large letters of the brand name "Luer", are seen at the sliced end. He hands it to Bumbo and when he takes a bite, the bologna is longer, and the letters UER are now visible. (Luer's was a popular brand of hot dogs and luncheon meats beginning in 1885 in Los Angeles, and continuing at least into the 1950s when the company's "Quality Meat" rocket ship vehicle - similar to the Oscar Mayer 'Weinermobile" - travelled the United States promoting its products.)

Quotes
Bumbo, "The Wild Man From Borneo": Yum-Yum! Eat 'em up!

Connections
Edited into The Our Gang Story (1994)

Soundtracks
Good Old Days
(uncredited)
Music by Leroy Shield

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10/10

Spanky is a comic genius

If given the difficult task of choosing the very best of the Our Gang comedies "The Kid from Borneo" would certainly be in the running. In this short, Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky mistake a wild-man from Borneo for their uncle George. This wild-man has a taste for candy, so when he sees Stymie snacking on candy he pursues the gang, shouting "Yum yum, eat 'em up" the whole way. Of course the gang thinks he wants to eat them. The highlight of this film has to be Spanky's kitchen encounter with the wild-man. The scene is proof that Spanky was a child actor of amazing comic ability. Some of his reactions are so subtle yet hilarious you would think he had spent years studying the great comic actors of the time.