The Spanking Age

{{Infobox film

| name = The Spanking Age

| image = Our Gang Spanking Age 1928.jpg

| caption = Title card

| director = Robert F. McGowan

| producer = Hal Roach

| writer = Anthony Mack
H. M. Walker

| starring = Mary Ann Jackson
Bobby Hutchins
Jean Darling
Joe Cobb
Allen Hoskins
Harry Spear
Pete the Pup
Lyle Tayo

| cinematography = Art Lloyd

| editing = Richard C. Currier

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| released = {{Film date|1928|12|15}}

| runtime = {{duration | m=20 | s= 38}}

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

}}

The Spanking Age is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SpankingAge1928.html |title=Silent Era: The Spanking Age |accessdate=September 14, 2008|work=silentera}} It was the 80th 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 |page=92 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/92/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}} The film was considered lost until a copy surfaced in 1990.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225633/The-Spanking-Age/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080109145105/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225633/The-Spanking-Age/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 9, 2008 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: The Spanking Age |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2008 |access-date=September 14, 2008}}

Plot

Mary Ann and Wheezer are the children of a widowed inventor who are forced to endure the cruelties of their stepmother (Lyle Tayo) and stepsister. The kids get even by rigging a few clever contraptions of their own. In the end the father sells a patent worth millions and thereby leaves the stepmother and stepdaughter.