Watch Waldo's Last Stand (1940) Free Online

Release Date: 1940

Categories: Movies, Family-Oriented Comedy, Black-And-White, Short Film, Comedy

Waldo's Last Stand is a 1940 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 193rd Our Gang short (194th episode, 105th talking short, 106th talking episode, and 25th MGM produced episode) that was released. The gang (Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, and Mickey) offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their clubhouse as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage an elaborate floor show, with Darla Hood as the star vocalist. Unfortunately, their efforts attract only one patron—a surly, stone-faced little kid (Billy "Froggy" Laughlin,... MORE

Waldo's Last Stand is a 1940 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 193rd Our Gang short (194th episode, 105th talking short, 106th talking episode, and 25th MGM produced episode) that was released. The gang (Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, and Mickey) offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their clubhouse as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage an elaborate floor show, with Darla Hood as the star vocalist. Unfortunately, their efforts attract only one patron—a surly, stone-faced little kid (Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, making one of his first Our Gang appearances). Spanky and the other kids try to persuade Froggy into buying a drink, even going as far as singing an impromptu song about dryness and thirst, but to no avail. The kids then come up with an idea: to put a heater under Froggy which would heat him up and force him to buy a drink. When the floor show ends, Spanky asks Froggy why he wouldn't buy a drink and the latter responds, with a Popeye-the-Sailor voice, that he doesn't have any money and that it's to hot in the clubhouse; he then leaves. Spanky then realizes that the reason Waldo had no customers LESS