Men in Fright

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The gang goes to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Their plans go quickly awry after Alfalfa switches clothes with a boy avoiding his own surgery, and the g... Read allThe gang goes to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Their plans go quickly awry after Alfalfa switches clothes with a boy avoiding his own surgery, and the gang find themselves patients in the hospital.The gang goes to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Their plans go quickly awry after Alfalfa switches clothes with a boy avoiding his own surgery, and the gang find themselves patients in the hospital.

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Darla Hood

Darla
(as Our Gang)

Eugene 'Porky' Lee

Porky
(as Our Gang)

George 'Spanky' McFarland

Spanky
(as Our Gang)

Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer

Alfalfa
(as Our Gang)

Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas

Buckwheat
(as Our Gang)

Gary Jasgur

Gary
(as Our Gang)

Leonard 'Percy' Landy

Leonard
(as Our Gang)

Barbara Bedford

Sonny's Mother
(uncredited)

Margaret Bert

Nurse at Front Desk
(uncredited)

Sonny Bupp

Sonny - Boy in Hospital
(uncredited)

Don Castle

Hospital Orderly
(uncredited)

Nell Craig

Maternity Ward Nurse
(uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Darla's Mother
(uncredited)

Mary MacLaren

Nurse With Ice Cream
(uncredited)

Jack Rice

Hospital Orderly
(uncredited)

Ray Turner

Elevator Operator
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The 172nd of 220 "Our Gang" shorts released from 1922 to 1944.

Goofs
Toward the end of the film, the gang members are in Darla's hospital room while she is recuperating from a tonsillectomy. She tells the gang she can only eat ice cream, and offers the rest of the hospital food to the gang. Buckwheat grabs half of a large watermelon, cut lengthwise. A second later, he is shown holding and eating a quarter of a watermelon.

Connections
Spoofs Men in White (1934)

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9/10

Men in Fright was a very funny M-G-M entry in the Our Gang series

This M-G-M comedy short, Men in Fright, is the one hundred seventy-third entry in the "Our Gang" series and the eighty-fifth talkie. Darla is in the hospital recovering from a tonsillectomy and therefore won't be able to eat the food the gang brought to her room. Spanky had that figured out so it would be eaten by him and the rest of the gang. Alfalfa had waited outside the patient's room with the basket while his friends were visiting but was distracted by another kid patient who offered him a dime to change clothes, not knowing that kid was planning to ditch getting his tonsils taken out! So Alf is now being taken to the operating room...Other stuff happens but I'll just say this was a very funny entry of the M-G-M series. Director George Sidney really pulls the stops here and has an animated sequence to humorously show what is happening in one of the gang's stomach. I'm half guessing maybe Friz Freleng might have been involved in that sequence since he worked for the studio at the time. Anyway, I really liked this one so on that note, Men in Fright is well worth seeing.