Pay As You Exit (1936)
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Hoping to attract customers to Spanky McFarland's barnyard production of Romeo and Juliet, star performer Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer proposes a "pay as you exit" policy: If the kids like the show, they'll pay the alotted one-cent admission on the way out. Alas, the show is nearly over before it starts when leading lady Darla Hood walks out, complaining that Alfalfa has been eating onions (which, he insists, improves his splendid speaking voice). After stalling for time, Spanky hits upon a replacement for Darla: black youngster Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas, decked out in a glorious blonde wig! Joe Cobb, an "Our Gang" star from the series' silent days, makes an amusing return appearance. Among the "mood songs" played on the Victrola by stagehand Eugene "Porky" Lee in the course of the show are LeRoy Shield's familiar background tunes "In My Canoe" and "Hide and Go Seek, as well as "Walking the Deck, a tune written for (but deleted from) the 1936 Laurel and Hardy feature Our Relations. The one-reel "Pay as You Exit" was originally released on October 24, 1936. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer - Alfalfa
- Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas - Buckwheat
- George "Spanky" McFarland - Spanky
- Sidney Kibrick - Kid in Audience
- Rex Downing - Kid in Audience
- Robert Winkler - Kid in Audience
- Little Rascals
- Darla Hood - Darla
- Eugene "Porky" Lee - Porky
- Joe Cobb - Biggest Kid
- Harold Switzer - Kid in Audience
- Bobs Watson - Kid in Audience
- John Collum - Kid in Audience
- Director(s):
- Gordon M. Douglas
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