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Mush And Milk | Little Rascals Shorts | FULL EPISODE | 1933 | Our Gang

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Mush and Milk is a comedy short subject; part of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) series. It was produced and directed by Robert F. McGowan for Hal Roach, and was originally released to theaters by MetroGoldwynMayer on May 27, 1933. It was the 123rd Our Gang short to be released overall, and the 35th to include sound.

The children live in the Bleak Hill boarding school, whose ghastly old headmistress constantly punishes and berates them. As they wake up one morning, having improvised a variety of methods to keep warm in their beds, she orders them to get to their chores or face a beating and no breakfast. Her husband, the kindly old Cap, serves as the children's schoolteacher. He promises them that once his back pension comes in, he will take them away from the school so they can all live well.

The children milk a cow using a vacuum cleaner, but their dog Pete knocks over the bucket. To avoid punishment, they mix powdered plaster of Paris into a bucket of water so that the headmistress will think it is milk. At breakfast, they pass the word among themselves not to drink the milk, making up an excuse that it has spoiled. When Spanky innocently tells the headmistress, she scolds the children and orders them to put the milk on their mush and eat it. The plaster quickly sets up, leaving them with slabs of plaster and mush in their bowls and stuck on their spoons.

Cap leads the children through a class session of humorously inaccurate questions and answers, then has them put on an impromptu talent show that culminates in Tommy belting out a rendition of "Just Friends" with adultoriented lyrics. Spanky answers a telephone call during class; it is Mr. Brown, the bank manager, who wants to speak to Cap. Following a comical exchange, Mr. Brown gets Spanky to put Cap on the line and tells him that his back pension has come in, totaling nearly $4,000. Cap, ecstatic, treats the children to an amusement park visit, a wide variety of toys, and dinner at a fancy French restaurant. He orders a meal for everyone, not knowing exactly what it is. The food turns out to be mush, which Cap throws in the waiter's face out of disgust.

Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Written by Carl Harbaugh
Hal Roach
H. M. Walker
Hal Yates
Produced by F. Richard Jones
Hal Roach
Cinematography Hap Depew
Edited by Louis McManus
Music by Leroy Shield
Marvin Hatley
Distributed by MetroGoldwynMayer
Release date
May 27, 1933

Cast
The Gang
Matthew Beard as Stymie
Tommy Bond as Tommy
Dorothy DeBorba as Dorothy
Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer
George McFarland as Spanky
Dickie Moore as Dick
John Collum as Uhhuh
Edith Fellows as Girl in kitchen
Bill Farnum as Billy
Dickie Jackson as Dickie
Marcia Mae Jones as Our Gang member
Olga Therkow as Olga
Pete the Pup as himself
Additional cast
Gus Leonard as Cap, teacher
Louise Emmons as Cap's wife, the Headmistress
James Finlayson as Mr. Brown, the banker
Rolfe Sedan as Waiter
Joe the Monk as Monkey

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