Saturday's Lesson
About Saturday's Lesson
On Saturday the Our Gang children are kept home for chores and told the devil will get them if they slip out. They meet in the park anyway. A man dressed as the devil to advertise Mephisto Heaters hears them and chases them back to work. Joe chops a woodpile taller than the house, Farina beats the carpets to shreds, and Pete the Pup bites down on the devil's tail.
Cast & crew
More about Saturday's Lesson
Robert F. McGowan directed and wrote it with H. M. Walker. Hal Roach produced it and MGM released it on 9 November 1929. Art Lloyd photographed it. Richard C. Currier edited it. It is the 93rd Our Gang short and the last silent one. Like Little Mother and Cat, Dog & Co., it was held back until several sound Our Gang shorts had already opened.
Themes
Background
The last silent Our Gang short, released in November 1929 after the series had already switched to sound.
Making
McGowan finished it as a silent picture and Roach kept it on the shelf while the sound Our Gang shorts went out first.
Look
Art Lloyd shot the park chase and the backyard chores.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Notes
- Jack O'Brien plays the man in the devil suit.
- Joe Cobb, Jean Darling, Allen Hoskins as Farina, Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer, Mary Ann Jackson, and Harry Spear are the gang.
- Orpha Alba plays Joe's mother. Charley Young plays Dr. A. M. Austin.
- It was shot in early March 1929, before the Roach studio was rebuilt for sound, and not released until November.
Scenes
- The heater salesman steps out of a puff of smoke in the devil suit.
- Joe's woodpile grows higher than the house.
- Pete clamps onto the tail and will not let go.
