Kids & Family. Directed by Robert F. McGowan. The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo." You're now in slide show mode. This one is as un-PC as they come, but it is quite possibly the funniest Little Rascals short ever made. In 1902, medicine show con man Dan Thompson settles down with the daughter he hardly knows in a New York theatrical boarding house full of eccentric characters. With Frank Morgan, Mary Howard, Billie Burke, Donald Meek. The Little Rascals Best of Our Gang. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. The Little Rascals - The Complete Collection is an 8 DVD set released by Genius Entertainment in late October 2008. Episode 13 0 hr 18 min. The Little Rascals Classics The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakingly believing he is "The Wild Man From Borneo." Forced to take a job in an arcade sideshow, he tries to con daughter Mary and his fellow boarders into thinking he's on the legitimate stage. Season 1. Dad doesn't want him near the house, but Mom sends Dickie, Dorothy and Spanky (joined by the gang) to visit him at his sideshow tent. With Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Tommy Bond, Dorothy DeBorba, Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins. SPACEBAR resumes the slideshow. John Lester Johnson, Actor: Mystery in Swing. The famous "Wild Man of Borneo" follows the Little Rascals home. Hitting > pauses the slideshow and goes forward. Spanky is the main Rascal in this one, but Stymie has the funniest bits. - Stymie "I don't think I'll taste so good. John Lester Johnson was born in Suffolk, Virginia (his death certificate states South Carolina) on August 13, 1893. The Gang pays a visit to the famous "Wild Man of Borneo" only to find that he has followed them home! 28 min. As with most of the televised Little Rascals shorts, I saw this many times as a kid (I’m so old, they hadn’t yet removed it from the package). S01:E01 - … Hitting < pauses the slideshow and goes back. Summary: The kids' Uncle George is in town, having brought with him a wild man from Borneo. Browse All Genres. Comedy. The Rascals spend most of the short running away from “The Wild Man of Borneo,” who likes candy and who growls “Yum yum, eat ‘em up!” whenever he sees food. It was the 122nd (34th … He seems very docile until he sees Stymie with candy and then goes crazy trying to get it, chasing the Rascals back to the house to get some before Spanky renders him docile again after feeding him everything from the kitchen. The Kid from Borneo is countervailed by the Rascals, but at the expense of the destruction of some of the house by the mistaken Uncle George. The kids mistake "the Wild Man from Borneo" for "Uncle George" and some of the lines and actions that follow are priceless. TV-G. Rascals Kid From Borneo. The Kid from Borneo is a comedy short subject; part of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) series. Stymie is almost done in until Dorothy cracks the ruffian over the head with a vase. Quotes: "Uh-uh, brother, I don't want any wild mans nibbling on me." The set consisted of all eighty Hal Roach talkies, as well as three silent shorts. It was produced and directed by Robert F. McGowan for Hal Roach, and was originally released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on April 15, 1933. His middle name was Leslie, according to an "Ebony" magazine article about Johnson (January 1960), but he changed it to to Lester when he left Virginia in 1910 for New York City, hoping to make a career in boxing. Initial releases included sixteen prints from Blackhawk Films, rather than the original 35mm prints featured on the earlier Cabin Fever sets. The Little Rascals themselves fend off the Wild Man in their usual mischievous ways.