Matthew Beard Movies

After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing...

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.

A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He...

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

This acclaimed television drama tells the story of Edith Wilson, second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. It deals specifically with how, after his...

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the...

While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.

The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's...

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses...

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.

When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty...

Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.