Bear Shooters

Infobox Film
name = Bear Shooters


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director = Robert F. McGowan
producer = Robert F. McGowan
Hal Roach
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music = Marvin Hatley
cinematography = Len Powers
editing = Richard C. Currier
distributor = MGM
released = 17 May, 1930
runtime = 20 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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preceded_by = "When the Wind Blows"
followed_by = "A Tough Winter"
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imdb_id = 0020671

"Bear Shooters" is a 1930 "Our Gang" short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/122173/Bear-Shooters/overview |title=New York Times: Bear Shooters |accessdate=2008-09-19|work=NY Times] It was the 98th (tenth talking) "Our Gang" short that was released.

Plot

Spud wants to go camping and shoot lots of bears with Jackie, Chubby, and Farina. But his mother has forced him to look after his little brother Wheezer, who has the croup. He tries to get his sister Mary Ann to do this but she insists on going camping. Spud decides to merely go camping anyway and took both Wheezer and Mary Ann along. The gang all go together in an old dilapidated wagon guided by Dinah The Mule. The trip initially goes smoothly but two hunters want the gang to leave so one of them dresses up like an ape to scare the gang. While he scares the gang, the gang manages to trap this ape. The gang does flee but its because a skunk winds up spraying the area.

Also, Bear Shooters is one of a dozen Our gang episodes to be in the public domain. Copyright for this episode was not renewed back in the 1960's.

Cast

* Leon Janney - Donald 'Spud'
* Bobby Hutchins - Wheezer
* Allen Hoskins - Farina (as Farina)
* Jackie Cooper - Jackie
* Mary Ann Jackson - Mary Ann
* Norman Chaney - Chubby
* Pete the Pup - Petie
* Dinah the Mule
* Bob Kortman - Bootlegger #1
* Charlie Hall - Charlie (the other bootlegger)
* Lyle Tayo - Spud's mother

ee also

* Our Gang filmography

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0020671|title=Bear Shooters