The Pigskin Palooka

{{Infobox film

| name = The Pigskin Palooka

| image = Pigskin palooka TITLE.JPEG

| caption =

| director = Gordon Douglas

| producer = Hal Roach

| writer = Jack Jevne

| narrator =

| starring = see below

| music = Leroy Shield
Marvin Hatley

| cinematography = Art Lloyd

| editing = William H. Ziegler

| distributor = MGM

| released = {{Film date|1937|10|29}}

| runtime = 10' 41'

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

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The Pigskin Palooka is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 159th 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=209–210 |isbn=978-0-517-52675-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/208/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}}

Plot

Having written of his football heroics in military school, Alfalfa returns home to a hero's welcome. But the fact is that Alfalfa never played a game in his life and borrowed Rex's, a classmate and football player's uniform to take a picture, angering him as well. No sooner has he stepped off the train than his old pal Spanky, manager of the gang's football team, informs Alfalfa that he's been slated to be star player in an upcoming gridiron battle—which is to be staged within the next few hours. Alfalfa winds up winning the game in a total fluke, which Buckwheat and Porky helped cause.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225689/The-Pigskin-Palooka/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520180815/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225689/The-Pigskin-Palooka/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-05-20 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: The Pigskin Palooka |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2011 |accessdate=2008-09-21}}

Cast

=The Gang=

Carl Switzer as Alfalfa
Darla Hood as Darla
Eugene Lee as Porky
George McFarland as Spanky
Billie Thomas as Buckwheat
Pete The Pup as himself

=Additional cast=

Rex Downing as Cadet (photographer)
Gary Jasgur as Junior (timekeeper)
Cullen Johnson as Scorekeeper
Dickie Jones as Spike
Sidney Kibrick as Spike's sidekick
Delmar Watson as Captain of the military academy's football team

=Members of Spanky's team=

Daniel Boone, John Collum, Charles Flickinger, Larry Harris, Paul Hilton, Darwood Kaye, Tommy McFarland, Donald Proffitt, Drew Roddy, Harold Switzer

=Members of Spike's team=

Hugh Chapman, Dix Davis, Barry Downing, Roger McGee, Fred Walburn, Robert Winkler

=Game spectators and band players=

Barry Downing, Bobby Callahan, Dix Davis, Floyd Fisher, Vincent Graeff, Payne B. Johnson, Henry Lee, Joe Levine, Priscilla Lyon, Drew Roddy, Norman Salling, Joe Straunch, Jr., Fred Walburn, Robert Winckler