Between the 1920s and the 1940s, America was captivated by a group of spunky young kids known as Our Gang. Originally ...

For nearly 100 years, children have grown up with Hal Roach’s “Our Gang” series (aka the “Little Rascals”), little movies that—in the most endearing and funny way imaginable—capture how kids speak, ...

When they are good & ready, Hollywood’s moviemakers confidently expect to take over television as entertainment. After three years of making films exclusively for TV, the Hal Roach studios, well in ...

If further proof was necessary (and it really wasn’t) that I should stay off Amazon late at night, it came a week or so ago when I decided I needed to order the new Columbia Hammer Horrors collection ...

This is a documentary that's included with the Our Gang mega-set of eight DVDs. This in on disc eight--the Bonus disc. It's a relatively short film of under 30 minutes--which just isn't enough ...

BACKLOT: Long before Gadhafi, Mussolini tried to muscle into the movies. By Bill Higgins In 1937, Vittorio Mussolini (center) with producer Hal Roach (right) and Charles Pettijohn -- Hays Office ...

Write it down? The old Hal Roach line has given way to YouTube and many other ways for Irish comics in America to be funny and reach their audience. Mike Farragher talks to the new breed of Irish ...

Harry Eugene Roach Sr. professionally known as Hal Roach, was an American film and television producer, director, and actor who was active from the 1910s to the 1990s. He is remembered today for ...