Auto Antics

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The "Our Gang" kids are working on their vehicle for the Kidmobile Race Classic taking place this afternoon at 2:45. They are certain they will win with their invention, the supercharged roc... Read allThe "Our Gang" kids are working on their vehicle for the Kidmobile Race Classic taking place this afternoon at 2:45. They are certain they will win with their invention, the supercharged rocket powered tire attachments. Their adversaries, Butch and Woim, find out their secret. Us... Read allThe "Our Gang" kids are working on their vehicle for the Kidmobile Race Classic taking place this afternoon at 2:45. They are certain they will win with their invention, the supercharged rocket powered tire attachments. Their adversaries, Butch and Woim, find out their secret. Using the dogcatcher to take away their unlicensed dog, Whiskers, to the pound as a distract... Read all

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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)

Tommy Bond

Butch
(as Our Gang)

Robert Blake

Mickey
(as Mickey Gubitosi)

Sidney Kibrick

Woim
(as Our Gang)

Leonard 'Percy' Landy

Leonard
(as Our Gang)

Baldwin Cooke

Luke

Joe Levine

Racer

James H. McNamara

The Mayor
(as Major James H. McNamara)

Joe Whitehead

The dogcatcher

Director
- Edward L. Cahn
Writers
- Hal Law
- Robert A. McGowan
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Trivia
Final Our Gang appearance by Eugene 'Porky' Lee, whose role as the "tag-along kid" was taken over by Mickey Gubitosi (aka Robert Blake), who had just taken over for Gary Jasgur as the "toddler" of the group. "Porky" was let go because he had grown too tall for the role - even taller than Spanky. This was also his final film, period. He had been with the gang since 1935.

Goofs
As Buckwheat and Porky's car speeds down the hill the right front wheel hits a rock, and Buckwheat's seat - as well as Buckwheat himself - separate from the rest of the car. Close examination reveals that the separation takes place before the wheel hits the rock.

Connections
Referenced in The Little Rascals (1994)

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Lazy and Boring

Auto Antics (1939)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

The gang have their dog taken from the dog-keeper because it doesn't have a license. The kids then join a soap box race hoping to win so that they can take the prize money and get their dog back. AUTO ANTICS follows DOG DAZE and the two films have a lot in common. One thing is that they both feature dogs in the plot. The second thing is that both films are actually very, very bad and it's hard to tell which one is worse because both stink so bad. This one here just has an overall lazy feel to it because not only are the jokes not funny but I'd say the entire picture just seems cheap. Take a look at a sequence where a couple kids go flying into some water and you can see both of them hanging by wires. There's not even an attempt to try and make this sequence look real or even hire the wires. You can tell from this that no one really cared how obvious it was. Even the kids are pretty bland here with none of them really standing out among the pack. The film thankfully runs less than 10-minutes because had it been longer then it really would have been painful. I think this here is only going to be recommended to Our Gang fans who must watch them all.