Honky Donkey is a 1934 Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

short comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Gus Meins

Gus Meins

Gus Meins was a German-American film director. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany.-Career:...

. It was the 129th (41st talking episode) Our Gang short that was released.

Synopsis

Capriciously defying his loving but overprotective mother, wealthy young Wally Albright orders family chauffeur Barclay (Don Barclay) to drive through the town's "dirtier" alleyways. Wally befriends the gang, who have rigged up a merry-go-round powered by a contentious mule named Algebra. Inevitably, Wally invites the kids—and Algebra—to his palatial home, where the mercurial mule drive Barclay crazy.

Cast

• Wally Albright
  Wally Albright
  Wally Albright was an American former child actor.-Career:Albright was born Walton Algernon Albright, Jr. in Burbank, California. He appeared in a number of films during his career, and is notable for appearing in six Our Gang short subjects throughout the early 1930s...
  
   - Wallace
• Matthew Beard - Stymie
• George McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
   - Spanky
• Scotty Beckett
  Scotty Beckett
  Scott Hastings "Scotty" Beckett was an American child actor. He starred in the Our Gang and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger series.-Early career:...
  
   - Scotty
• Willie Mae Taylor - Buckwheat
• Tommy Bond
  Tommy Bond
  Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond was an American actor. A native of Dallas, Texas, Bond was best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen.-Early years...
  
   - Tommy
• Philbrook Lyons - gang member
• Don Barclay
  Don Barclay
  Don Barclay was an American actor.He played the character Mr. Binnacle in the Disney film Mary Poppins.-Selected filmography:* That Little Band of Gold * Honky Donkey Barclay...
  
   - Barclay
• Mickey Daniels
  Mickey Daniels
  Richard "Mickey" Daniels, Jr. was a juvenile actor. Signed by Hal Roach in 1923, he was, along with fat Joe Cobb, scruffy Jackie Condon, pretty Mary Kornman, and smiling "Sunshine Sammy" , a regular in the popular Our Gang comedies.-Biography:The red-haired, gap-toothed, freckled whipper snapper...
  
   - Algebra the Mule's Laugh (voice)
• Bess Flowers
  Bess Flowers
  Bess Flowers was an American actress. By some counts considered the most prolific actress in the history of Hollywood, she was known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras," appearing in over 700 movies in her 41 year career....
  
   - Maid
• Pete Gordon - Bicycle Rider
• Julia Griffith - Household servant
• Charles McAvoy - Officer
• William Wagner
  William Wagner (actor)
  William Wagner was an American character actor. He appeared in over 50 films between 1931 and 1948.-Film:Born in New York City, New York, Williams is best rememebered today for his role as the cranky father paired with Leonard Kibrick as the father/son villain team in the Our Gang films For Pete's...
  
  - Realtor