Helping Grandma

1930
21m

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The kids help out at their adopted grandma's financially troubled grocery store, unaware of a schemer's efforts to swindle her.The kids help out at their adopted grandma's financially troubled grocery store, unaware of a schemer's efforts to swindle her.The kids help out at their adopted grandma's financially troubled grocery store, unaware of a schemer's efforts to swindle her.

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Matthew 'Stymie' Beard

Stymie
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Norman 'Chubby' Chaney

Chubby
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Jackie Cooper

Jackie
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Dorothy DeBorba

Dorothy
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

Farina
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

Wheezer
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Mary Ann Jackson

Mary Ann
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Shirley Jean Rickert

Shirley
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Donald Haines

Donald
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Clifton Young

Robert 'Bonedust'
(as Hal Roach's Rascals)

Oscar Apfel

Mr. Pennypacker

William Gillespie

Billy, Chain store official

Dell Henderson

Henderson, Chain store official

Margaret Mann

Mrs. Margaret Mack (storekeeper)

Director
- Robert F. McGowan
Writer
- H.M. Walker
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Trivia
The calendar on the wall at the end of the store counter shows the month of May 1929.

Goofs
At the end of the short, Oscar Apfel (Mr. Pennypacker) visibly grimaces before Wheezer hits him with the hammer.

Quotes
Wheezer: [repeated lines, as Wheezer buys candy and Stymie keeps giving him suggestions] You ain't gonna get any anyhow.
Stymie: I knows it.

Connections
Featured in Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse (1984)

Soundtracks
Good Old Days
(uncredited)
Music by Leroy Shield

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Featured review

Decent

Helping Grandma (1931)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Our Gang short has the group helping out their adopted grandma who runs a small store. A group of chain stores might be willing to give her a good price for the property but a bad man is also there trying to rip her off. This isn't the best short from the gang but it's not the worst either. The movie doesn't contain too many laughs until the very end of the film but the final five minutes make it worth watching. I was surprised to see how well director McGowan handled the suspense as grandma comes closer and closer to signing a bad deal. McGowan edits back and forth to grandma and the good guys racing to get there and does a very good job with it. The highlight sees grandma punching a guy's lights out, which is always fun to see.