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Beginner's Luck is a 1935 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gus Meins. It was the 135th Our Gang short (47th talking episode) that was released. ==Plot== Spanky has been entered into a kiddie amateur show by his pushy stage mother.The gang comes up with a plan to disrupt his recitation with peashooters and noisemakers and make him flop. At the theater Spanky befriends a little girl who has bombed her act due to stage fright but needs the prize money to buy a special dress. Spanky has a change of heart and decides to win the prize and give the money to the girl. He tells the girl "don't worry girlie the dress is in the bag". Spanky must tell the gang of his change of plan but his mom won't let him leave the stage as he is about to go on. She goes to talk to the boys but she doesn't know there is a plot to destroy the act and only thinks Spanky needs a quick pep talk from the gang and doesn't make the boys understand Spanky's wishes. Spanky walks on stage and is hit with a wall of peashooters, he is busy trying to recite and dodge the projectiles at the same time. The audience start to laugh at the scene. His mother is waving him off but he won't leave trying to win the prize for the girl. His mother demands the MC take him off as she won't have her son laughed at. She is turned down and she tries to run and grab him and take him off; this too fails. Finally she goes to the back curtain and gets down on her knees with a pole and tries to drag him off. This is one of the better shorts where the gang takes care of a pompous stuffed shirt adult. Spanky's mother is the villan of the short and is given the works for putting her son on stage and then not wanting him laughed at. She winds up much more of a laughing stock herself. She says, "I won't have my son laughed at!" and tries everything to get him off. When she finally snags him and almost has him off it's almost as if the finger of fate says "OK, Lady, now it's your turn for ruining the fun!" as Spanky's mother reluctantly joins the act. Spanky's grandmother, with the MC's permission, raises the back curtain and snags her daughter's dress with the curtain hook in the process. Spanky's mother jumps to her feet to unhook her dress as the attention of the audience has shifted to her; they greet her with hoots, howls and catcalls. Spanky frees his visor and turns to see what all the commotion is about, and sees his mother is now on stage with her dress caught on a rising curtain all to the great enjoyment of the audience,who can't wait to see that dress ripped off her. With a mighty tug the curtain is raised and her dress is ripped off her. The force of the action has thrown her to her knees as she stares gawking up into the rafters looking for her dress. Spanky rushes to shield her from the audience's eyes and pushes a stage prop in front of her. He hears wild, uncontrollable laughter coming from the audience as the stage prop displays a caricature of a squatting dog with his mother's head fitting on the top making it look like she and the dog are one. This final scene is nothing short of pure sadistic as Spanky's mother tries to save him and gets her dress ripped off her in the process then being mounted behind the prop; but we love to watch this ending and laugh pure belly laughs as Spanky's mother has her goose cooked.
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