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Bupp Filmology
Week Twenty-Eight

"Men in Fright" 1938 Sonny trading clothes with Alfalfa

MOVIE NAME: MEN IN FRIGHT
STUDIO: METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
PRODUCER: JACK CHERTOK
DIRECTOR: GEORGE SIDNEY
DATE: 1938
TYPE: OUR GANG, COMEDY SHORT
CAST:
GEORGE MacFARLAND as "Spanky" Cheyne , CARL SWITZER as "Alfalfa", EUGENE LEE as "Porky", DARLA HOOD as "Darla" , BILLIE THOMAS as "Buckwheat" , SONNY BUPP as Boy in Hospital

SOURCE:The Little Rascals,The Life and Times of Our Gang, by: Leonard Maltin and Richard W. Bain
STORY: The Gang visits Darla in the hospital, bringing a picnic basket full of goodies, knowing full well that she is recuperating from a tonsillectomy and won't be able to help devour the feast. While waiting outside her room, Alfalfa is approached by a wily young patient (Sonny) who gives him a dime to change clothes. Alfalfa, in hospital gown, waits for the kid to come back from "taking a walk," not realing he is fleeing the hospital to escape surgery! An orderly arrives to take Alfalfa to the operating room, but the crisis is happily forestalled when an opened container of Laughing gas sends the orderly (and Alfalfa) out of the elevator in a slow-motion state of bliss. A dousing with water returns Alfalfa to reality, and he and the other kids dig into their picnic basket. They dig a little too deep, however, and end up with phenomenal stomachaches. All of them are committed to the children's ward, while Darla is permitted to leave with her mother. She promises to visit them the next day, but they tell her, "Just bring flowers."

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