Time Out for Lessons

Time Out for Lessons is a 1939 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 185th Our Gang short (186th episode, 97th talking short, 98th talking episode, and 17th MGM produced episode) that was released.

Time Out for Lessons
Directed byEdward Cahn
Bud Murray
Produced byJack Chertok for MGM
Written byHal Law
Robert A. McGowan
CinematographyRobert Planck
Edited byRalph E. Goldstien
Distributed byMGM
Release date
  • December 2, 1939 (1939-12-02)
Running time
10' 49"
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Afalfa is preparing for a Football game with the gang before his father takes him aside to talk about his poor grades, Alfalfa is told that, he has a lot of Grade "D" on his tests and unless he improves his academic standing, he'll never get to college. Alfalfa responds, "Don't 'D' stand for 'Dandy'?" He then informs his father that he intends to sail through college on a football scholarship. His father then puts forth an illustration to Alfalfa who imagines that he is a student at "Hale University" (a spoof of Yale University) and that he is a big football star with poor grades. During his dream about future gridiron triumphs, Alfalfa is brought down to earth when he envisions himself being disqualified by his professor from the inevitable "big game" due to his lousy grades. After picturing this scenario our hero vows to put football on the back burner in favor of cracking the books. His father though encourages him to balance them out and not neglect one for the other, so while Alfalfa doesn't give up Football he promises and encourages the gang to take "Time Out For Lessons". [1]

Cast

The Gang

Additional cast
  • Gloria Brown as Spanky's dance partners
  • Hugh Chapman as Kid encouraging Leonard
  • Paul Hilton as Roommate
  • Dickie Humphries as Kid encouraging Buckwheat
  • Valerie Lee as Mickey's dance partner
  • Si Wills as Alfalfa's father

College extras

Joe "Corky" Geil, James Gubitosi, Jovanni Gubitosi, Janice Hood, Jackie Horner, Payne Johnson, Larry Kert, Sidney Kibrick, Rae-Nell Laskey, Gerald Mackey, Tommy McFarland, Glenn Mickens, Priscilla Montgomery, Betty Ann Muir, Jo-Jo La Savio, Harold Switzer

Notes
  • The film is one of many MGM Our Gang episodes about teaching a lesson to children. The series continues to head downhill with one morality lesson after another. Soon, World War II propaganda will be a subject of many Our Gang episodes.
  • The film was the last appearance of Sidney Kibrick. He was initially a background character while his older brother Leonard was the gang bully. After his brother leaves, Sidney is teamed up with a new bully, Butch, played by Tommy Bond. Sidney becomes known as "Woim". His last episode as Butch's sidekick had been Captain Spanky's Showboat.
  • Features an instrumental version of "The Jitterbug", a song written (but removed) from The Wizard of Oz.

See also

References
  1. "New York Times: Time-Out-For-Lessons". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-10-08.


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