- Bedtime Worries
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name = Bedtime Worries
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director =Robert F. McGowan
producer =Robert F. McGowan Hal Roach
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music =Marvin Hatley
cinematography = Hap Depew
editing = William H. Terhune
distributor = MGM
released =9 September ,1933
runtime = 20 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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preceded_by = "Mush and Milk "
followed_by = "Wild Poses "
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imdb_id = 0023788"Bedtime Worries" is a 1933 "
Our Gang " shortcomedy film directed byRobert F. McGowan . It was the 124th (36th talking episode) "Our Gang " short that was released.Plot
With several major Our Gangers along with several recurring ones leaving all at once, Bedtime Worries" would focus more on Spanky and his parents with what is left of the gang being seen only for a few minutes. It was also the first of two "Our Gang" comedies in which the vaudeville team of Emerson Treacy and Gay Seabrook (a second-echelon Burns and Allen), who were cast as the parents of little Spanky McFarland. On the day he is promoted to head clerk (or "head cluck," as Spanky puts it), Treacy declares that it is high time Spanky stopped sleeping in his parents' room and go to bed in his own room. During his first night alone, Spanky envisions all sorts of imaginary horrors, from a bat (actually a moth) to "the boogeyman." Thus, when a burglar (Harry Bernard) climbs into Spanky's window, the boy's dozing parents fail to believe his story. Passing himself off as Santa Claus, the burglar attempts to steal everything that isn't nailed down. The gang, who seems to be homeless on this episode stop at Spanky's house to stay. He tells them Santa was visiting and when Stymie sees "him", he realizes that this man is a burglar. The rest three Our Gang kids come to the rescue and tackle down the burglar and the police arrive and take the burglar away. Spanky then asks the burglar "Santa Claus, where are you going?". The Burglar answers, "I guess I am going to jail son." Spanky then responds, "I'll come up and see you sometime." Teh story ended there. cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225668/Bedtime-Worries/overview |title=New York Times: Bedtime Worries |accessdate=2008-09-19|work=NY Times]
On this episode, with Wheezer,
Dickie Moore ,Dorothy Deborba , and several fill in kids leaving, the plot is left with a depleted Our Gang with only three regulars. It would be early in 1934 when new faces would be introduced.Cast
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George McFarland - Spanky
* Matthew Beard - Stymie
*Tommy Bond
*Georgie Billings
*Jerry Tucker
*Pete the Pup - Petie
*Emerson Treacy - Emerson, Spanky's father
*Gay Seabrook - Gay, Spanky's mother
*Harry Bernard - The burglar
*Billy Bletcher - Radio Voice (voice)
*Lee Phelps - Officer
*Frank Terry - Radio voice (voice)ee also
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Our Gang filmography References
External links
*imdb title|id=0023788|title=Bedtime Worries
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