An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help..

The first thing that strikes you about Our Gang—beyond the sepia tremor of nitrate that flickers like campfire on the edges of each frame—is its refusal to genuflect before the adult world. Hal Roach, still high on the fumes of Thais and other one-reel curios, hands the narrative keys to a parliament of snot-nosed le...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Robert F. McGowan

Charley Chase
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" The first thing that strikes you about Our Gang—beyond the sepia tremor of nitrate that flickers like campfire on the edges of each frame—is its refusal to genuflect before the adult world. Hal Roach, still high on the fumes of Thais and other one-reel curios, hands the narrative keys to a parliament of snot-nosed legislators who legislate only in pranks. Their adversary isn’t a mustache-twirling villain but a modernity incarnate: the traveling department-store shark who rolls into town with p..."

Anna Mae Bilson
Hal Roach, H.M. Walker
United States

