The Lucky Corner

There is a lot packed into this short (12 minutes) little Our Gang comedy from 1936.

You get a bunch of slapstick bits and a short musical show featuring some good tap dancing and the singing talents (so to speak) of "Alfalfa." The gang is minding their own business, selling lemonade on a street corner. The bully and his crabby dad are nearby and don't like the fact that Spanky and the gang are taking away a lot of their business.

The rest of the story is the back-and-forth between the two rivals, even after our "good guys" are forced to move.

This is a very fast-moving and entertaining Our Gang short. I think all these kids were in their prime in the last years: the mid '30s.

An OUR GANG Comedy Short.

Nasty Leonard & his equally repulsive dad, new owners of a neighborhood fruit stand, see to it that the lemonade cart belonging to little Scotty Beckett & his grandpa is thrown off THE LUCKY CORNER where it's stood for years. Moving into a less-frequented alley, business looks bleak. It's a good thing Spanky & The Gang are on hand to drum up some more customers.

A funny little film, with spunky Spanky, Buckwheat `on ice' and Alfalfa crooning `Little Brown Jug' the highlights. Leonard Kibrick was the quintessential tough redheaded kid in many films of the 1930's, often without credit. That's Gus Leonard playing Grandpa.

This Hal Roach comedy short, The Lucky Corner, is the one hundred thirty-eighth in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series and the fiftieth talkie. Scotty and his granddad have a little lemonade stand but a rival one headed by William Wagner and son played by Leonard Kibrick (a reprisal of their roles in For Pete's Sake!) want it off to another corner. So it's moved to a nearby black man's place that Leonard says no one will go to. But Spanky has an idea...This was another hilarious short in the series with Buckwheat getting plenty of laughs whether doing some stunts or getting confused about numbers! Alfalfa amusingly sings off-key here and there's plenty of hilarious spit-takes! So that's a high recommendation for The Lucky Corner. P.S. This was released a year after being made which must have confused some moviegoers when they saw Scotty Beckett back in the gang since he'd been doing some features by this time. Also, the version of the theme song "Good Old Days" by LeRoy Shield is the more familiar one that I remember from the King World Productions prints when I first watched these during the late '70s.