Spook Spoofing is a 1928 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

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan

Robert F. McGowan

Robert Francis McGowan was an American film director and producer, best known as the senior director of the Our Gang short subjects film series from 1922 until 1933.-Career:...

. It was the 70th Our Gang short that was released.

Synopsis

The gang mercilessly taunt and bully their superstitious friend, Farina, who retaliates with a magic charm on one of the boys, played by Harry Spear

Harry Spear

Harry Spear was a former American child actor, notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929...

. Harry

Harry Spear

Harry Spear was a former American child actor, notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929...

 plays like he’s dead, and the rest of the gang encourages Farina to bury the “corpse” before he comes back to haunt him.

Cast

• Allen Hoskins – Farina
• Joe Cobb
  Joe Cobb
  Joe Frank Cobb was a former American child actor, most notable for appearing as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies from 1922 to 1929...
  
   – Joe
• Bobby Dean – Other fat boy
• Jackie Condon
  Jackie Condon
  John Michael "Jackie" Condon was an American child actor who was a regular on the Our Gang short series during the Pathé silent era.-Career:...
  
   – Jackie
• Harry Spear
  Harry Spear
  Harry Spear was a former American child actor, notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929...
  
   – Harry
• Jay R. Smith
  Jay R. Smith
  Jay Roger Smith was an American former child actor who replaced Mickey Daniels as the "freckle-faced kid" of the Our Gang series in 1925. He continued appearing in the shorts until 1929.-Our Gang:...
  
   – Jay, the Undertaker’s son
• Bobby Hutchins – Wheezer
• Mildred Kornman
  Mildred Kornman
  Mildred Kornman , also known as Ricki VanDusen, is a former American child actress.Mildred, the younger sister of Mary Kornman, leading lady of the silent film Our Gang series, was featured as a regular in the series from 1926–1928 and made more appearances from 1929 until 1935...
  
   – Mildred
• Johnny Aber – First boy among those running to look at the dead body
• Unknown boy – Boy who tells Farina about the dead body
• Four other boys – Chasing the ambulance
• Charles A. Bachman
  Charles A. Bachman
  Charles A. Bachman was an American film comedy actor. He appeared in 29 films between 1923 to 1940 for the Hal Roach Studio, primarily in Our Gang shorts and Laurel and Hardy comedies.-Selected filmography:* Saps at Sea...
  
   – Policeman
• Charles Lloyd
  Charles Lloyd
  Charles Lloyd is an American jazz musician. Though he primarily plays tenor saxophone and flute, he has also occasionally recorded on alto saxophone and more exotic reed instruments which include the Hungarian tárogató. Lloyd's saxophone playing is often characterized as an individualized,...
  
   – Vendor selling the eclipse glasses
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  - Himself