Moan and Groan, Inc.

{{Infobox film

| name = Moan and Groan, Inc.

| image = Moan groan inc TITLE.JPEG

| caption =

| director = Robert F. McGowan

| producer = Robert F. McGowan
Hal Roach

| writer = Robert F. McGowan
H.M. Walker

| narrator =

| starring = Edgar Kennedy
Max Davidson
Allen Hoskins
Norman Chaney
Mary Ann Jackson
Jackie Cooper
Bobby Hutchins

| music =

| cinematography = F. E. Hershey
Art Lloyd

| editing = Richard C. Currier

| distributor = MGM

| released = {{Film date|1929|12|7}}

| runtime = 20' 36"[http://theluckycorner.com/vc/cf.html#part%2021 theluckycorner.com/]

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Moan and Groan, Inc. is a 1929 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/MoanandGroanInc1929.html |title=Silent Era: Moan and Groan, Inc. |accessdate=September 16, 2008|work=silentera}}{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225646/Moan-Groan-Inc-/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520165052/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225646/Moan-Groan-Inc-/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: Moan and Groan, Inc. |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2011 |accessdate=September 16, 2008}} Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 94th Our Gang short to be released.{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |pages=107–108 |isbn=978-0-517-52675-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/106/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}}

Synopsis

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Friendly neighborhood policeman Kennedy the Cop warns the gang to stay away from an old abandoned house in the neighborhood. Instead, he suggests the kids go dig for buried treasure, which they proceed to do in the basement of an old abandoned house. The house is inhabited by a homeless lunatic, who takes giddy delight in scaring the children, particularly Farina. Kennedy eventually turns up at the house to save the kids and apprehend the lunatic, but can hardly take care of himself.

Notes

Moan and Groan, Inc. features a short appearance by former Our Gang kid Jay R. Smith, his only appearance in a sound Our Gang short and his final appearance in the series.
Because of its reliance upon Irish American, Jewish American and African American stereotypes, Moan and Groan, Inc. was deleted from King World's Little Rascals television package in 1971.

Cast

=The Gang=

Norman Chaney as Chubby
Jackie Cooper as Jackie
Allen Hoskins as Farina
Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer
Mary Ann Jackson as Mary Ann
Bobby Mallon as Bobby
Pete the Pup as Himself

=Additional cast=

Betty Jane Beard as Trellis, Farina's baby brother
Jay R. Smith as Kid with Japanese handcuffs
Max Davidson as The Lunatic
Edgar Kennedy as Kennedy the Cop

Filming Locations

The actual "haunted house / old powder house" was the Minorini ranch house{{Cite web |title=Don José de Arnaz – Romance of a Rancho – Cheviot Hills History |url=https://www.cheviothillshistory.org/home/jose-de-arnaz/romance-of-a-rancho/ |access-date=2024-11-14 |language=en-US}} which was built in the 1870s by the Don Jose Arnaz, owner of Rancho Rincon de los Beyes which covered most of the present-day Beverlywood neighborhood in Los Angeles and most of present-day Culver City, California.{{Cite web |last=Now |first=Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and |title=Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now |url=https://ChrisBungoStudios.com |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now |language=en-US}}