Bedtime Worries

An OUR GANG Comedy Short.

Little Spanky has BEDTIME WORRIES. He has to sleep alone for the first time in his life and suddenly his bedroom is filled with spooky sights & sounds - to the great annoyance of his sleepy father. Then a real burglar gets into the house...

A very funny little film, with Spanky at the top of his form. Highlight: the `What's a shipping clerk?' sequence. Emerson Treacy & Gay Seabrook play Spanky's very peculiar parents.

Very funny introduction to the Little Rascals of Our Gang!! Parents should believe their children or they shall learn the hard way!! Everything in this movie is great, from cinematography to music fragments and story, but the thing which remains is the acting performance of the smart young baby. Bravo!!

This Hal Roach comedy short, Bedtime Worries, is the one hundred twenty-fourth in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series and the thirty-sixth talkie. As his father gets a promotion as a shipping clerk (which results in a funny exchange between Spanky and both his parents as to what that is), he insists his son sleeps alone for the first time in his life. But Spank keeps calling them out-either for water or for something that's bothering him. I'll stop there and just say this was quite a good showcase for the scene-stealing toddler. While the other kids in the gang are also around, they don't get as much screen time. As his parents, Emerson Treacy and Gay Seabrook are quite the team in their dialogue exchanges with the wife quite the ditzy character in the Gracie Allen mode. They would appear in the follow-up short, Wild Poses, as well. So on that note, I highly recommend Bedtime Worries.

In this short you can see how talented Spanky was as a young child. It shows Spanky in the humor role as opposed to the straight man he played later to Alfalfa and the rest. I you have a child, you can relate to the concerns of a young boy sleeping in his own bed for the first time. When he thinks there's a burglar in the house and his "Daddy and Momma" don't believe him, then a burglar shows up, he's cool as a cucumber. As he asks the burglar "are you Santy Clause? A battle ensues between the father and Spankys friends that is anarchy. A movie thats good to watch with children of all ages. Much better than the later Alfalfa centered shorts.