Spooky Hooky
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| Directed by | Gordon Douglas |
| Written by | Hal Roach |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | George McFarland Carl Switzer Billie Thomas Eugene Lee Dudley Dickerson Rosina Lawrence Laughing Gravy |
| Cinematography | Art Lloyd |
| Edited by | William H. Ziegler |
| Music by | Leroy Shield Marvin Hatley |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 10:17 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Spooky Hooky is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas.[1] It was the 149th Our Gang short to be released.[2]
Plot
[edit | edit source]When Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat and Porky become bored with school, they decide to fake an illness for the next day and leave a note on their teacher Miss Lawrence's desk so that they can go to the circus, which they had just seen arrive in town. However, when Miss Lawrence reveals that she plans on taking the class to the circus the next day, Spanky tries to hurry back to the school to retrieve the note, but Porky and Buckwheat return and lock the door behind them before Spanky is able to make it to the door. Now with no way to get back in the school, the boys decide to sneak into the school later that night to recover the note. What follows is a series of scared chaos that the boys and the school's janitor encounter.
The boys do succeed in recovering the note; however, in the final scene, each of the four boys are shown in a four-way split-screen taking a cold medicine the next morning as their mothers declare in unison, "For the last time, you can't go to school today," indicating that the disappointed boys are now really sick and cannot go to school on the day of the circus.
Cast
[edit | edit source]The Gang
[edit | edit source]- George McFarland as Spanky
- Carl Switzer as Alfalfa
- Billie Thomas as Buckwheat
- Eugene Lee as Porky
Additional cast
[edit | edit source]- Dudley Dickerson as Sam, the janitor
- Rosina Lawrence as Miss Lawrence
- Laughing Gravy as himself
Schoolyard extras
[edit | edit source]Patsy Barry, John Collum, Paul Hilton, Sidney Kibrick, Jackie Lindquist, Dickie De Nuet, Donald Proffitt, Harold Switzer, Robert Winckler
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Spooky Hooky at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1936 films
- American black-and-white films
- 1936 comedy films
- Films directed by Gordon Douglas
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
- 1936 short films
- Our Gang films
- 1930s American films
- Films scored by Marvin Hatley
- Films scored by Leroy Shield
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s comedy film stubs
- Comedy short film stubs