Matthew Beard Movies

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early...

The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.

A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which...

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which...

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls...

The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased...

Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his...

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.

The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in...

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's...

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.